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President Donald Trump is expected to return Wednesday to his residence at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida.

Watch live: President Donald Trump's departure ceremony

Donald Trump will walk out of the White House and board Marine One for the last time as president Wednesday morning, leaving behind a nation bitterly divided.
President-elect Joe Biden tears up Tuesday as he speaks at the Major Joseph R. “Beau” Biden III National Guard/Reserve Center in New Castle, Delaware.

Biden arrives for inauguration with big plans, big problems

President-elect Joe Biden made a sober entrance to the nation's capital Tuesday, ready to assume power as America reels from the coronavirus pandemic, soaring unemployment and grave concerns about more violence as he prepares to take the oath of office.
Final preparations are made Tuesday ahead of the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington.

An inauguration unlike any other amid a pandemic, unrest

Inauguration Day for President-elect Joe Biden will look unlike anything the nation has seen before as the scars of COVID-19 and the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol turn the West Front into a virtual ghost town compared to years past.
President-elect Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, leave a COVID-19 memorial event Tuesday at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington.

Analysis: For Biden, chance to turn crisis into opportunity

In the 11 weeks since Election Day, the collision of crises confronting President-elect Joe Biden have gone from staggering to almost unimaginable.
President-elect Joe Biden tears up Tuesday as he speaks at the Major Joseph R. “Beau” Biden III National Guard/Reserve Center in New Castle, Delaware.
Biden's first act: Orders on pandemic, climate, immigration
In his first official acts as president, Joe Biden is signing executives orders on a broad range of issues, from the coronavirus pandemic to climate change and immigration, to fulfill campaign promises.
President-elect Joe Biden speaks Tuesday at the Major Joseph R. “Beau” Biden III National Guard/Reserve Center in New Castle, Delaware.
Facing crush of crises, Biden will take helm as president
Joe Biden swears the oath of office at noon Wednesday to become the 46th president of the United States, taking the helm of a deeply divided nation and inheriting a confluence of crises arguably greater than any faced by his predecessors.
A view Tuesday of the National Mall in Washington ahead of the 59th Presidential Inauguration on Wednesday.
Hollywood returns: Gaga, J. Lo headline Biden inauguration
It's a far cry from a normal inauguration, with Washington locked down due to security concerns, and most inaugural events gone virtual because of the raging coronavirus pandemic. But one thing is back that virtually disappeared four years ago: the A-list.
Joseph Maldonado-Passage, also known as Joe Exotic, is seen at the zoo he used to run in Wynnewood, Oklahoma.
No-go for Joe Exotic: Trump pardon list omits 'Tiger King'
Joe Exotic's team was so confident in a pardon that they'd readied a celebratory limousine and a hair and wardrobe team to whisk away the zookeeper-turned-reality-TV-star, who is now serving a 22-year federal prison sentence in Texas. But he wasn't on the list announced Wednesday morning
A child holds a tray of chocolates as others hold portraits of U.S. Vice President-elect Kamala Harris after participating Wednesday in special prayers at a Hindu temple in Thulasendrapuram, the hometown of Harris’ maternal grandfather, south of Chennai, Tamil Nadu state, India. A tiny, lush-green Indian village surrounded by rice paddy fields was beaming with joy Wednesday hours before its descendant, Kamala Harris, takes her oath of office and becomes the U.S. vice president.
Indian village cheers for Harris before swearing-in as vice president
People in a tiny Indian village surrounded by rice paddies flocked to a Hindu temple, burst crackers and uttered prayers Wednesday hours before its descendant, Kamala Harris, takes her oath of office to become the U.S. vice president.
A county election worker scans mail-in ballots at a tabulating area at the Clark County Election Department in Las Vegas.
EXPLAINER: Election claims, and why it's clear Biden won
As Democrat Joe Biden is sworn in Wednesday as the nation's 46th president, Donald Trump's most ardent supporters still believe Biden was not legitimately elected after Trump continues to argue the election was stolen.
European Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen addresses European lawmakers Wednesday during a plenary session on the inauguration of the new President of the United States and the current political situation, at the European Parliament in Brussels.
EU sighs with relief as Biden readies to enter White House
The European Union's top officials breathed a sigh of relief on Wednesday that Joe Biden will be taking over as president of the United States, but they warned that the world has changed after four years of Donald Trump and that trans-Atlantic ties will be different in the future.
President Donald Trump holds up his face mask during the first presidential debate at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio. The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus has eclipsed 400,000 in the waning hours in office for Trump.
Trump frees former aides from ethics pledge, lobbying ban
President Donald Trump, in one of his final acts of office, released current and former members of his administration from the terms of their ethics pledge, which included a five-year ban on lobbying their former agencies.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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