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Donald Trump will complete an extraordinary comeback on Monday when he is inaugurated for a second term as US president, apparently stronger and more unpredictable than ever.

The 78-year-old Republican will be sworn in at the US Capitol in Washington amid high pomp and ceremony before making a triumphant return to the White House that he left in disgrace four years earlier.

On one side of the street lie the ashes of ruined houses, lost to the huge blazes that defeated Los Angeles firefighters when hydrants ran dry.

On the other side, a small village of shops is still intact, watched over by tanker trucks and an army of private firemen.

Joe Biden wanted to go down in history as the man who saved America from Donald Trump. Instead he may be remembered for handing Trump a second term in the White House.

In years to come Biden, 82, may be judged more kindly. The Democrat steered a divided country out of the Covid-19 pandemic and the chaos of Trump's first four years, before pushing through an impressive raft of legislation.

Her voice tinged with anger, an American mother worried about what the future holds for her teenage daughter, just one of dozens of girls targeted in yet another AI-enabled pornography scandal that has rocked a US school.

The controversy that engulfed the Lancaster Country Day School in Pennsylvania last year highlights a new normal for pupils and educators struggling to keep up with a boom in cheap, easily available artificial intelligence tools that have facilitated hyperrealistic deepfakes.

Every four years America's president is sworn in on Inauguration Day, whether newly elected or returning to office, in a long-established ceremony and pageantry shaped by the incoming leader's personal flourishes.

What does that mean for the inauguration of Donald Trump?: Queue the Village People and social media titans.

The ouster of Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) as chair of the House Intelligence Committee is an early indication that allegiance to President-elect Donald Trump will come above all else in the Republican-controlled Congress, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) warned Thursday.

“It sends a message to the House and to the Senate that Trump is going to put personal loyalty to him ahead of the national interest and the United States’ security interests,” Blumenthal said of Turner’s removal from the powerful House committee, which has been attributed to pressure from Trump.

Outgoing President Joe Biden received high marks from many political commentators for his farewell address delivered on Wednesday — and that was because of a particularly resonant fact about the speech, former White House press secretary turned MSNBC commentator Jen Psaki wrote on Thursday.

A key moment that exemplified this, she argued, was the beginning of his speech, where Biden delivered a powerful bit of symbolism involving the Statue of Liberty.

Eric Adams, the embattled mayor of New York City indicted on federal corruption charges, insists he's heading to Mar-a-Lago to cement a partnership with the incoming president.

But cynical social media users weren't buying his explanation Thursday — and suggested he may be making the trip in search of a pardon.

Speaking from a hospital bed, Georgia State Sen. Colton Moore delivered an update on his arrest – and the shoving match that led to it – that occurred earlier in the day outside the Georgia House chamber.

“I did take a bit of a beating on my hand,” Moore, a far-right supporter of President-elect Donald Trump, said in a video posted hours after state troopers arrested him for defying an order that barred him from entering the House chamber.

A "spiritual guru" behind a tiny religious group that former Hawaiian Rep. Tulsi Gabbard — Trump's pick for director of national intelligence — belonged to spewed hateful invective and slurs against LGBTQ people, The Daily Beast reported Thursday.

The guru, Chris Butler, headed up the Science of Identity Foundation, a self-described Hindu group in Hawaii and a splinter faction of the Hare Krishna movement.

Eric Adams the embattled New York City mayor indicted on federal corruption charges, is taking a page out of the tech billionaires' playbook and heading to Mar-a-Lago to meet meet with President-elect Donald Trump.

Fabien Levy, spokesman for the Democratic mayor, told The New York Times in an email that Adams is meeting with the incoming president Thursday evening.

Rats with a hankering for illicit drugs are treating a police evidence room like an all-you-can-eat buffet.

Houston Mayor John Whitmire last week joined the city's police chief and Harris County district attorney to announce a new effort to clear out old evidence from the city's police department.

President-elect Donald Trump's latest "enemies list" was conspicuous for the names that he forgot to include, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman told CNN's Jake Tapper on Thursday afternoon.

'Trump's pick for attorney general, Pam Bondi, told senators on Wednesday that there will be no enemies list," said Tapper. "But then Trump posted on social media just a few hours later, naming 11 people who I guess he feels have wronged him, that if you worked for them, you can't work in his administration, including a number of people who worked for him in the last administration, including Mark Milley and James Mattis and Mark Esper."