Tag: Joe Biden
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Washington mayor asks for increased security around Biden’s inauguration
Washington’s Mayor has asked for increased security around the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden after last week’s storming of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump. Describing last week’s assault as an “unprecedented terrorist attack”, Mayor Muriel Bowser said that Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20 will require a “different approach” compared to…
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How Nigerians in U.S. secured Democrats control of Senate for Biden
New Georgia State Senator-elect, Jon Ossof has come out to thank Nigeria-Americans for the role they played in helping to secure Democrats control of the U.S. Senate for the opening of Joe Biden’s presidency. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Ossoff, a 33-year-old documentary film executive faced incumbent Republican senator David Perdue whose Senate term ended on Sunday.…
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Joe Biden makes attorney general pick
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has formally announced judge Merrick Garland as his nominee for attorney-general, a role that amounts to being the nation’s top law enforcement officer. Garland, a Justice Department veteran, currently serves on the powerful U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. He came to prominence in 2016 as former president…
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BREAKING: Trump finally accepts defeat, pledges orderly transfer of power to Biden
U.S. President Donald Trump has finally accepted defeat and pledged to transfer power to President-elect Joe Biden in an orderly manner. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports this is coming after Congress officially certified Biden as winner of the U.S. 2020 presidential election. In a statement President Trump, following the electoral certification, said even though he disagrees with…
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Joe Biden finally certified winner of U.S. 2020 presidential election
The United States Congress has certified Joe Biden as winner of the U.S. 2020 presidential election, hours after President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol in an attempt to overturn the election. US Vice-President Mike Pence started the resumed session on Wednesday evening, in which lawmakers counted and confirmed electoral votes, saying it had been…
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US Congress set to seal Biden’s electoral win over Trump
President Donald Trump’s extraordinary effort to overturn the presidential election is going before Congress as lawmakers convene for a joint session to confirm the Electoral College vote won by Joe Biden. The typically routine proceeding Wednesday will be anything but, a political confrontation unseen since the aftermath of the Civil War as Trump mounts a…
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Trump’s supporters, police clash as Congress set to certify Biden’s victory
A mass demonstration in support of outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C. escalated into clashes with the police, resulting in the arrest of six people, U.S. media reported on Wednesday. U.S. Congress is due to certify Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election later in the day. Trump supporters have been flocking to…
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FBI probes threat to crash airplane into U.S. Capitol
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating the crashing by unknown persons, of radio frequencies used by U.S. air traffic controllers, to broadcast a threat to fly an airplane into U.S. Capitol in revenge for the assassination of prominent Iranian General Qasem Soleimani. U.S. broadcaster CBS news reported this on Wednesday as Congress is…
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Year in review: TheNewsGuru’s list of 20 defining moments of 2020
The year 2020 threw everything in its arsenal at the world but humanity stood strong. The year was dramatic as everything that ordinarily should happen in 10 years happened in the year. From politics in Nigeria to the U.S. presidential election, to the death of notable personalities, especially due to the outbreak of the Coronavirus…
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Biden accuses Trump of damaging critical security agencies
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on Monday said the outgoing Donald Trump administration was doing “enormous damage” to agencies critical to the nation’s security. Biden made the allegation in a speech from his home state of Delaware after receiving a briefing from his aides on national security and foreign policy. He alleged that his team was…