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Live Updates: Joe Biden Is Certified as the 46th President of the United States

Congress certified the election of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. early Thursday, hours after loyalists urged on by President Trump stormed and occupied the Capitol, disrupting the final electoral count in a shocking display of violence that shook the core of American democracy.

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Live Updates: Democrats Edge Closer to Senate Control With Victory in Georgia; Second Race Too Close to Call

Democrats inched closer to taking control of the Senate on Wednesday, winning one of the two Georgia seats up for grabs in a pair of runoff elections while the second contest remained too close to call.

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Live Updates: Polls Open in Georgia in Pivotal Senate Runoffs

Georgians head to the polls today for a critical election that will determine whether Republicans retain control of the Senate, just a day after President Trump and President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. converged on the state to campaign for their party’s candidates.

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Trump, in Taped Call, Pressured Georgia Official to ‘Find’ Votes to Overturn Election

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To Deter Iranian Attacks on U.S. Troops, Pentagon Orders B-52 Flights to Middle East

WASHINGTON — Two American B-52 bombers flew a show-of-force mission in the Persian Gulf on Thursday that military officials said was intended to deter Iran and its proxies from carrying out attacks against United States troops in the Middle East amid rising tensions between the two countries.

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Biden’s Choice for Pentagon Faces Questions on Ties to Contractors

Retired Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III serves on the board of Raytheon, one of the world’s largest weapons makers, and is a partner in an investment firm that buys military suppliers.

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Covid-19 Live Updates: Britain Begins Vaccinating Citizens

Britain’s National Health Service delivered its first shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine on Tuesday, opening a mass vaccination campaign with little precedent in modern medicine and making Britons the first people in the world to receive a clinically authorized, fully tested vaccine.

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Scandal Dogs China’s ‘King of Vaccines,’ Partner to AstraZeneca

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U.S. Job Market Slowed Further in November: Live Updates

AL JAZEERA

Saudi Arabia, Qatar near agreement in Gulf crisis: Sources

Qatar and Saudi Arabia are close to striking a preliminary agreement to end a dispute that has pitted the Gulf neighbours against each other for more than three years, sources told Al Jazeera.