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A winter storm left millions without power in record-breaking cold weather.

House Democrats prosecuting former US President Donald Trump's impeachment said on Thursday the Capitol rioters believed they were acting on "the president's orders”.

The US House will vote on whether to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committees over the Republican's embrace of conspiracy theories and violent racist views.

A readout of the call between Biden and Macron from the White House said the new American president expressed "the desire to strengthen bilateral ties with our oldest ally."

Some migrants threw rocks while authorities pushed the caravan back down the road with their riot shields. Migrants with children were more gently prodded back the way they had come.

The incoming US president unveiled the American Rescue Plan, which aims to speed up the vaccination campaign and deliver economic aid in the country with the highest number of coronavirus cases and deaths.

A Kansas woman was executed on Wednesday for strangling an expectant mother in Missouri, the first time in nearly seven decades that the US government has put to death a female inmate.

They have called on the French government to provide more support.

From cabinet appointments to coronavirus legislation, Biden's ability to enact his agenda hinged on the outcome of Georgia's two Senate run-offs.

There are fears of a renewed US-Iran clash a year after the US drone killing of the Revolutionary Guard chief, in the dying days of Donald Trump's presidency.