• "We think it's good that they don't build any more walls," said Lopez Obrador, noting that several past US presidents have extended border barriers during their terms.
• Lopez Obrador also urged US-bound migrants to hold back from seeking to cross illegally just because of the change in presidents.

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• Biden has voiced an interest in working with congressional Republicans. The White House promised the Republican senators "a full exchange of views."
• Mr. President, we recognize your calls for unity and want to work in good faith with your administration to meet the health, economic and societal challenges of the COVID crisis,

• The group started a two-week quarantine on arrival on January 14 in the central Chinese city where the first known cluster of virus cases emerged in late 2019.

• "I'm not joking when I say this: If you're ever working with me and I hear you treat another with disrespect, talk down to someone, I promise you I will fire you on the spot," Biden said.
• The US president further said that everybody is entitled to be treated with decency and dignity, adding that it has been missing in a 'big way in the last four years'.

• The controversial ban was introduced during Trump’s first week in office and restricted travel from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen.
• "These are just all starting points," Biden said, as he signed 15 executive actions on his first day in office.

• The ruling Democratic Progress Party described it as "a new breakthrough in 42 years".

• "This is America's day, this is democracy's day. A day of history and hope," he said on the steps of the US Capitol after his swearing-in.

• “I congratulate President @JoeBiden on his inauguration. Look forward to working with @POTUS in building a stronger Pak-US partnership through trade & economic engagement, countering climate change, improving public health, combating corruption & promoting peace in beyond.”

• The United States faces "a rise of political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism, that we must confront, and we will defeat,".

• "It is a day of history and hope and I look forward to forging ever closer ties between our two great nations."

• "This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge and unity is the path forward. And we must meet this moment as the United States of America."

Trump, 74, will bid farewell to the White House hours before President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated. Trump and his wife, Melania departed the South Lawn on the Marine One helicopter for Joint Base Andrews in suburban Maryland, where he presided over a military-style sendoff before boarding Air Force One one last time to fly to Florida.

• It's very much a tradition that the Canadian prime minister and the US president meet very quickly to be able to talk about all the tremendous things that we can do together.

• Some 20,000 National Guard soldiers are expected in Washington for Biden's inauguration.
• The capital is already under heavy security, with much of downtown fenced off and under guard.

• Power will rally the international community and work with our partners to confront the biggest challenges of our time - including COVID-19.

• In addition to Trump's alleged role in the storming of the Capitol, he said there were likely a long line of suspected crimes prosecutors could be interested in pursuing.

• "Deceptive campaigns like these raise a complex challenge by blurring the line between healthy public debate and manipulation," the company said in a blog post.

Pennsylvania was enough to get Biden over that halfway line. With leads in Georgia, Arizona and Nevada, he may well end up winning far more than needed - taking those three states would give him a total of 306.