Washington and states across the United States are boosting security by shutting down access to iconic landmarks and erecting vehicle checkpoints at a security perimeter surrounding central Washington ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s January 20 inauguration.
While presidential inaugurations in the US are always tightly secure events, this time security is being beefed up even more in a nation still rattled by the January 6 attack on the Capitol and potential armed protests on Wednesday.
Pro-Trump protests planned at state capitols nationwide got off to a quiet start with only small groups of armed demonstrators gathering in states including Ohio, Texas, Oregon and Michigan.
As the president-elect prepares to take power in a city where only two weeks earlier Trump supporters launched a violent attempt to overturn the election, Biden faces overlapping crises: not only the pandemic but a struggling economy, climate change and racial tensions.
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