Tributes poured in for the new Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration, which immediately got to work and sent out 17 executive orders addressing immigration policy, the COVID pandemic, and climate change,
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Suspecting that the Trump presidency marked a rocky but historic ride for the American people I started collecting front pages of the New York Times on November 9th, 2016, the morning after Donald Trump was elected.
“Trump Triumphs,” the first headline announced in what I believe to be the newspaper’s second largest typeface. The jumbo distinction has been used only five times: “Men Walk On Moon,” “Nixon Resigns,” “1/1/00” for the new millennium, “U.S. Attacked,” after 9/11, and “Obama,” to mark the first black President’s election.
My intention was to accumulate any issues of the “Newspaper of Record” with similarly bold headlines and, at the end of President Trump’s first and hopefully final administration, transform it into some sort of art project. I recall a memorable illustration from the Watergate era. It showed Richard Nixon’s face covered in the lies like an especially odious skin condition that led to his
MUMBAI â Bollywood celebrities Jan. 20 took to social media and congratulated Joe Biden and Kamala Devi Harris, who have been inaugurated as the 46th president and vice-president of the Unites States of America.
Sharing a photo of Indian American Harris, actress Priyanka Chopra wrote on Instagram story: The future is female Madame.â
Echoing similar thoughts, actor Ranvir Shorey wrote: I have a hunch Kamala will be President one day. #BidenHarrisInauguration
Sushmita Sen tweeted: Congratulations UNITED States of America!! Making History on so many levels, Respect Madam Vice President @kamalaharris. Its beyond empowering!! The world needs a strong sense of inclusion & hope Mr. President @joebiden Here s praying we all find strength in each other.
DC Edit | A return to decency in US will be good for the world DECCAN CHRONICLE.
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One can only hope the return to decency and truth in America might ease the path to a global revival too
US President Joe Biden signs executive orders as part of the Covid-19 response as US Vice President Kamala Harris (L) and Director of NIAID Anthony Fauci look on in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 21, 2021. (MANDEL NGAN / AFP)
Young American poet Amanda Gorman may have stolen the show at the inauguration of the new US President with her words in verse: “And so we lift our gazes not to what stands between us, but what stands before us.” In a sense, the poetic line summarises Joseph Robinette Biden Jr’s fundamentally reassuring message that the United States can heal while it recovers and rebuilds even as he attempts to reconcile and rectify the stark differences brought to the fore in four years of the Donald