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Senate Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer of New York will be majority leader once the two new Georgia senators and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris are all sworn into office, and he will have the opportunity to bring legislation to the floor and force votes.

What Biden can and can't get from an evenly divided Senate

The unexpected new balance of power giving Democrats only the barest control of Congress has big consequences for the president-elect -- easy confirmation of his Cabinet most importantly -- but the road ahead for his ambitious legislative agenda remains complicated and murky.
National Guard members assisting with processing COVID-19 deaths, placing them into temporary storage at the medical examiner-coroner’s office in Los Angeles. The seven-day rolling average of daily deaths is rising in 30 states and the District of Columbia, and on Monday the U.S. was approaching 398,000 deaths, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University, by far the highest of any country in the world.

Coronavirus deaths rising in 30 U.S. states amid winter surge

Coronavirus deaths are rising in nearly two-thirds of American states as a winter surge pushes the overall toll toward 400,000 amid warnings that a new, highly contagious variant is taking hold.
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris speaks Wednesday in Wilmington, Delaware. Harris will make history Wednesday when she becomes the nation’s first Black, South Asian and female vice president.

Harris prepares for central role in Biden's White House

Kamala Harris will make history on Wednesday when she becomes the nation's first female vice president -- and the first Black woman and the first woman of South Asian descent to hold that office. But that's only where her boundary-breaking role begins.
A sign warns motorists of the presence of a red light camera in Chicago.

Thousands of Illinois drivers would get their licenses back under a criminal justice reform bill

If Gov. J.B. Pritzker signs the measure that lawmakers passed this week, motorists will no longer lose their licenses for unpaid red-light and speed camera tickets.
Foreign passengers wearing protective suits Monday walk for their flight to China at Manila’s International Airport, Philippines. Coronavirus infections in the Philippines have surged past 500,000 in a new bleak milestone with the government facing criticisms for failing to immediately launch a vaccination program amid a global scramble for COVID-19 vaccines.
Philippine cases hit 500,000 amid vaccine struggles
Coronavirus infections in the Philippines have surged past 500,000 in a new bleak milestone with the government facing criticism for failing to immediately launch a vaccination program amid a global scramble for COVID-19 vaccines.
First lady Melania Trump and President Donald Trump remain on stage as Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden walks away at the conclusion of the second and final presidential debate at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee.
'Rooting hard for you': Will departure notes end with Trump?
Presidential traditions are usually known for their solemnity and carry the weight of future historical significance. This one began with cartoon turkeys and a reference to lunch.
A view from the lower west terrace door Monday as preparations are made prior to a dress rehearsal for the 59th inaugural ceremony for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris at the U.S. Capitol in Washington.
Biden aims for unifying speech at daunting moment for U.S.
President-elect Joe Biden will take the stage for his inaugural address at perhaps the most difficult starting point for a president since Franklin Roosevelt began his first term by assuring a nation scarred by the Great Depression that "we have nothing to fear but fear itself."
President-elect Joe Biden participates Monday in a National Day of Service event at Philabundance, a hunger relief organization, with his daughter, Ashley Biden, and his granddaughter, Finnegan Biden, left, in Philadelphia.
Biden, Harris take break from inaugural prep to mark MLK day
Two days from the inauguration, President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris pitched in on Martin Luther King Jr. Day service projects as a militarized and jittery Washington prepared for a swearing-in that will play out under extraordinary security.
People evacuate from the West Front of the U.S. Capitol Monday during a rehearsal the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington.
Inauguration rehearsal evacuated after fire in homeless camp
The U.S. Capitol complex temporarily locked down Monday during a rehearsal for President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration after a fire in a homeless encampment roughly a mile away sent a plume of smoke into the air and caused security concerns in an already jittery city.
A member of staff at the university hospital Monday injects the Moderna vaccine against COVID-19 into a patient in Düsseldorf.
WHO chief blasts vaccine profits, demands elderly go first
The World Health Organization chief on Monday lambasted drugmakers' profits and vaccine inequalities, saying it's "not right" that younger, healthier adults in wealthy countries get vaccinated against COVID-19 before older people or health care workers in poorer countries and charging that most vaccine makers have targeted locations where "profits are highest."
People visit the eternal flame at the tomb of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King, on Monday to celebrate the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, in Atlanta.
King Day service calls for nonviolence amid turbulent times
Speakers at the annual Martin Luther King Jr. holiday celebration in Atlanta called Monday for a renewed dedication to nonviolence following a turbulent year in which a deadly pandemic, protests over systemic racism and a divisive election capped by an attack on the U.S. Capitol strained Americans' capacity for civility.
Alexei Navalny and his wife, Yulia, stand in line Sunday at the passport control after arriving at Sheremetyevo airport outside Moscow. Russia’s prison service says opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been detained at a Moscow airport after returning from Germany.
Kremlin foe Navalny jailed for 30 days; allies plan protests
A Russian judge on Monday ordered opposition leader Alexei Navalny jailed for 30 days, a ruling that comes after the leading Kremlin critic returned to Russia from Germany where he was recovering from nerve agent poisoning that he blames on President Vladimir Putin's government.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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In this Oct. 3, 1983, file photo, Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tom Lasorda starts a team meeting in the clubhouse at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. San Diego Padres infielder Kurt Bevacqua learned the hard way when he suggested the “fat little Italian” should have been fined when Dodgers reliever Tom Niedenfuer was dinged by MLB for throwing at San Diego’s Joe Lefebvre in 1983. An ordinary pitcher during his brief stint in the majors, Lasorda took a shot at Bevacqua’s struggles at the plate (he was a .236 hitter) saying he would “send a limousine” to pick Bevacqua up to make sure Bevacqua was in the lineup so he could “kick” Bevacqua’s (behind) any day of the week.
Former Los Angeles Dodgers Hall of Fame manager Tommy Lasorda died Thursday, January 7, 2020, at the age of 93.
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U.S. Capitol Police with guns drawn stand near a barricaded door as protesters try to break into the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington.
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