The US Senate has announced it had reached agreement to focus with priority on President Joe Biden’s anti-crisis agenda and thus postpone with a couple weeks at least to early February hearings related to the impeachment of Donald Trump, Reuters reported. Both Democrat and Republican leaders in Senate have confirmed early focus on the legislative agenda of the new US cabinet.

Canada deported thousands of people even as COVID-19 raged last year, data seen by Reuters shows, and lawyers say deportations are ramping up, putting people needlessly at risk in the midst of a global health emergency.

Mask up or you won't be allowed to board a plane, train or bus in the US. President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Thursday, requiring passengers to wear face coverings during interstate travel, news wires reported. It's one of 10 executive orders signed by the president aimed at addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, which has killed more than 400,000 Americans.

US President Joe Biden signed 15 executive actions shortly after being sworn on Wednesday, his first day in office, undoing policies put in place by his predecessor Donald Trump and making his first moves on the pandemic and climate change, Reuters reported.

Washington braced for a tense inauguration of US President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday, as more than 25,000 National Guard troops stood watch over a barricaded city, emptied of the spectators who usually throng to the quadrennial ritual.

Republican President Donald Trump left the White House on Wednesday after a tumultuous four years in office, hours before Democrat Joe Biden assumes the helm of a country beset by deep political divides and battered by a raging coronavirus pandemic.

President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said on Tuesday he believed President Donald Trump was right in taking a tougher approach to China - even if he did not agree with all his methods - and endorsed the assessment that it was committing genocide in Xinjiang.

The White House announced early Wednesday that Donald Trump was pardoning his former chief strategist Steve Bannon and 72 others. The last-minute clemency came just hours before president-elect Joe Biden's inauguration ceremony was set to begin. Trump also commuted the sentences of 70 people.

Joe Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday. Along with Biden, Kamala Harris will take oath as the first woman Vice President. The inauguration ceremony will start at 10:30 am (15:30 GMT), news wires reported. Hundreds of thousands of people usually attend the ceremony, but this time around there will only be a small crowd due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic that has now killed more than 400,000 Americans.

Trying to repair his tarnished legacy, President Donald Trump trumpeted his administration’s accomplishments and wished his successor luck in a farewell video as he spent his final full day in office preparing to issue a flurry of pardons in a near-deserted White House, surrounded by an extraordinary security presence outside.