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UPDATED with more data: Joe Biden now has beaten Donald Trump twice. With data from the cable newsers and the broadcast networks now in from Nielsen, the inauguration of the 46th POTUS topped that of the 45th. Across CNN, MSNBC, Fox News Channel, ABC, NBC and CBS, the 11:45-12: 15 PM ET swearing in ceremony of Biden…

Inaugural poet and show-stealer Amanda Gorman shares some behind-the-scenes moments and her own political plans with a clearly enchanted James Corden on tonight’s Late Late Show. The 22-year-old author — her upcoming children’s book Change Sings hit the top spot on Amazon on Wednesday — also tells the CBS host of her…

From morning until primetime, Wednesday television was dominated by coverage of the inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, with NBC and ABC leading the pack among the broadcast networks in early Nielsen Live+Same Day data. The Celebrating America special to honor the 46th President of…

"Good evening, America, proud to be here in cold Washington D.C.," Bruce Springsteen said Wednesday night, kicking off the Celebrating America apogee of today's unprecedented inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. If you had any questions about the tone the concert special was going to aim for, the Boss' choice…

Since most of the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris inauguration activities happened during the day, the late-night commentators will have to play catchup on the events of the past few hours. But that didn’t stop them from producing some early and unique commentaries on the state of the USA going forward. A few early takes from…

Joe Biden turned in what Fox News’s Chris Wallace called “the best inaugural address I ever heard.” Biden issued a powerful call for unity in his first speech as president, invoking Abraham Lincoln and channeling what NBC’s Chuck Todd called an eternal optimism. But not all reactions were positive. A Newsmax analyst…

In her debut as White House press secretary, Jen Psaki said that the daily briefings will return, but she also signaled a new direction from the years of Donald Trump. Psaki told reporters that when Joe Biden asked her to do the job, they talked of the “importance of bringing truth and transparency back to the…

A decade ago, the crowds attending Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s first inauguration were so great that a flood of ticketholders got stuck throughout the ceremony in a Capitol Hill tunnel, a snafu that was dubbed the Purple Tunnel of Hell. This time around, save for Capitol Hill police and National Guard troops, there…

In the wake of delivering her breathtaking, emotional poem “The Hill We Climb” at the inauguration of President Joe Biden, 22-year-old poet Amanda Gorman is seeing not only an explosion in her social media following, but her two books — Change Sings and The Hill We Climb — already hold the No. 1 and No. 2 spots on…

Democrats took control of the Senate for the first time since 2015, as Vice President Kamala Harris swore in her appointed successor, Alex Padilla, as well as Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, who won their races in Georgia this month. “I need to catch my breath, so much is happening,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY)…

"I think that for so many people that have been victims of voter suppression, they thought it was singular," says All In: The Fight for Democracy co-director Lisa Cortés on the brutal and conniving forces that try to deny citizens their rights. "What our film does is it places these individuals within this broader…

As President Donald Trump flew away from the White House this morning for the final time, documentary filmmaker Michael Moore gave him a parting jab on Twitter. “He has just left the White House for good,” the Oscar winner wrote. “We the people have evicted him. I will go ahead & cancel the U-Haul. He now flies over…