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Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will be sworn into office in front of the US Capitol around 12 p.m. on January 20. Celebrities Lady Gaga and Jennifer Lopez will perform at the ceremony. Biden and Harris will then speak to the nation via a TV special at 8:30 p.m. that will feature performances by Justin Timberlake, John Legend, Bruce Springsteen, and other A-listers. The inauguration is part of a five-day program with multiple virtual and socially-distanced in-person celebrations.
Democrat supporters await the first results of the election at a watch party in Oakland, California, Kamala Harris's hometown.
Vice President Kamala Harris says Trump "wants to take America back to 1800s" on abortion in a statement in Tucson, Arizona just days after that southwestern state's conservative supreme court rolled back reproductive rights to the Civil War era, saying an 1864 ban on abortion was valid. SOUNDBITE
US Vice President Kamala Harris meets British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at 10 Downing Street, London. Kamala Harris arrived in London the day before to attend the first global summit on the risks of AI, held at Bletchley Park. She has already announced, at the US Embassy in London on Wednesday, the creation of an artificial intelligence security institute in Washington, like the UK. IMAGES
US Vice President Kamala Harris arrives in Jakarta for an ASEAN leaders summit. Indonesia is hosting the 18-nation East Asia Summit, which will include the United States, China, Japan, India and Russia. Harris is attending in place of President Joe Biden, and will be taking part in a roundtable with Russian Foreign Minsiter, Sergei Lavrov. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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