Biden issues pre-emptive pardons for Fauci and Jan 6 riot committee newsthirst.

Joe Biden has pre-emptively pardoned a number of people including Covid response chief Anthony Fauci and the members of the 6 January riot investigation, to prevent “unjustified… politically motivated prosecutions”. Trump, who will be inaugurated later on Monday, regularly clashed with Dr Fauci during the pandemic and has suggested he would take action against those…

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Harris to certify Trump’s US election win, four years after Capitol riot newsthirst.

US Vice-President Kamala Harris will on Monday preside over the official certification in Congress of the result of November’s presidential election – a contest that she lost to Donald Trump. The date also marks the fourth anniversary of a riot at the US Capitol, when Trump’s supporters tried to thwart the certification of Democratic President…

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