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Poet Amanda Gorman says a security guard racially profiled her while she was walking home Friday night.

Calm prevailed outside heavily fortified state capitol buildings across the U.S. as Joe Biden was sworn in as president.

Biden was sworn in using a Bible that has been in his family since 1893 and was used during his swearing-in as vice president in 2009 and 2013.

He will take the helm of a deeply divided nation and inherit a confluence of crises arguably greater than any faced by his predecessors.

Trump now heads to Joint Base Andrews in suburban Maryland, where he’ll have a military sendoff. Four U.S. Army cannons are set up for a 21-gun salute.

President Donald Trump did not mention his successor, Democrat Joe Biden, by name in his farewell address.

That concern is prompting the FBI to vet all 25,000 National Guard troops coming into Washington for the event.

The tradition is in doubt this year, when President Donald Trump has vowed not to attend Joe Biden’s inauguration and has pushed the baseless claim that the election was stolen.

The grounds around capitols were generally empty and quiet early Sunday.

Biden plans to end President Donald Trump’s restriction on immigration to the U.S. from some Muslim-majority countries, move to rejoin the Paris climate accord, and mandate mask-wearing on federal property and during interstate travel.