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Biden Officially Becomes 46th President of the United States

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More history was made at Bidens side, as Kamala Harris became the first woman to be vicepresident

Joe Biden has been sworn in as the 46th president of the United States.

In a ceremony held Wednesday in Washington, D.C., Biden declared that "democracy has prevailed," as he took the oath at a U.S. Capitol that had been battered by an insurrectionist siege just two weeks earlier.

Biden takes the helm of a deeply divided nation and inherits a confluence of crises arguably greater than any faced by his predecessors.

More history was made at Biden's side, as Kamala Harris became the first woman to be vice-president. The former U.S. senator from California is also the first Black person and the first person of South Asian descent elected to the vice presidency and the highest-ranking woman ever to serve in government.

 

— With files from The Canadian Press and CTV News