UPDATE: Four years after she was sworn-in as a US Senator, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris has resigned (became effective at noon today)

For the first time in 17 years Kamala Harris is not an elected official.

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Parler CEO John Matze says he believes the free-speech platform will be back up “by the end of the month,” Fox News reports.

“I’m confident that by the end of the month, we’ll be back up,” Matze told Fox Sunday night.

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MEANWHILE IN NYC: An 8-year-old boy was shot in the head inside an apartment building in the Bronx on Monday, the NYPD said. The boy was shot in the head inside a building at 5 Fordham Hill Oval, in the Fordham Manor section of the Bronx, around 12:30 p.m. on Monday, police said. He was taken to a nearby hospital in critical condition, the NYPD said.

No one had been arrested in connection with the shooting as of Monday afternoon, police said. An investigation is ongoing.

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MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski RAGES against Facebook: “You could have done this a long time ago; you decided to do it now. Huh? I wonder who is going to be president now? Maybe this will make him happy. No! You’ve just shown him why you need to be shut down! You need to be shut down!”

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom formally submitted the appointment of Alex Padilla to the US Senate today, according to a press release from the governor’s office.

Padilla formally resigned as Secretary of State this morning and Gov. Newsom also submitted his nomination letter for Assembly member Shirley Weber to replace him. The Deputy Secretary of State, James Schwab, will be the Acting Secretary of State.

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🤔 Head of DC National Guard, Major General William Walker: "25,000 National Guardsmen have come in from all 50 states to help support the Secret Service and the police departments with a peaceful transition of military power.”

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“You will be in my heart forever.”

Farewell Message from First Lady Melania Trump

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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY): "I don't think there's a human being alive in America today that could do a better job than Chuck Schumer in this moment to bring this country back together."

JUST IN: The top two Senate leaders, Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer, are nearing a power-sharing agreement to hash out how the evenly divided chamber will operate, with Democrats in charge of setting the schedule but both parties likely to hold an equal number of seats on committees – CNN

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WASHINGTON POST: “QAnon adherents discussed posing as National Guard to try to infiltrate inauguration, according to FBI intelligence briefing”

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RIP: An Ohio police officer has died after a shooting standoff with a suspect, the Toledo Police Department said Monday.

Chief George Kral identified the officer as 24-year-old Brandon Stalker. According to Kral, Stalker was hit once by the suspect, who brandished two firearms while leaving a house which he entered after an exchange with police.

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says the city has just 92,000 first doses left and will hit zero by Friday; without federal support, the mayor said the city will have to start closing vaccine sites Thursday.

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