The Washington Post
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Philip Bump
– Jan 20, 1:46 PM
When President Biden first came to the Senate in 1973, he was the youngest member of that body. Among the oldest was Vermont's Sen. George Aiken, who had joined the Senate in 1941, the year before Biden was born. Aiken himself was born in the 19th…
The New York Times
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Sheera Frenkel
– Jan 20, 11:08 AM
After the presidential election last year, the Proud Boys, a far-right group, declared its undying loyalty to President Trump. In a Nov. 8 post in a private channel of the messaging app Telegram, the group urged its followers to attend protests…
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Policy. Every person should be treated with respect and dignity and should be able to live…
The New York Times
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Jesse Wegman
– Jan 20, 1:43 PM
For a long time, Jan. 20, 2021, seemed like a day that might never come. It sat there far down the calendar, a tantalizing hint of a moment when America might at last be freed from the grip of the meanest, most corrupt and most incompetent…
The New York Times
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Thomas B. Edsall
– Jan 20, 2:00 AM
Joe Biden takes office at noon, even as a block of roughly 35 to 40 million Republican voters remains convinced that his victory on Nov. 3 was illegitimate, despite his capture of a decisive majority of the popular vote and the Electoral College.
