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Democrat Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday during a ceremony at a heavily protected U.S. Capitol, ending the tumultuous four-year presidency of his Republican predecessor Donald Trump.

Two prominent Republican senators challenged President-elect Joe Biden after he compared them to an infamous Nazi propagandist. Biden on Friday said Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) are “part of the big lie.” He then recounted being told that Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler’s minister of propaganda, falsely said that more people were killed in the bombing of Dresden than were really dead. “And our papers printed that. Our papers printed it. That’s a big lie,” he added. In a statement in response, Hawley said: “President-elect Biden has just compared me and another Republican Senator to Nazis. You read...

Wang Yi, the Foreign Minister for China, celebrated the presumed return of former vice president Joe Biden to the White House by saying it marked a “return to the right track.” Speaking to the board of the US-China Business Council (USCBC), the representative of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) revealed his goal of improving relations with the United States. That goal would require the removal of barriers put in place to smooth dialogue. The hard-line stance of the Trump administration, for instance. ... “Based on the direction of mutual benefits for our two peoples and countries,” he continued, “we need...