The Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite Index stock markets have all closed at record highs on the news of Biden's successful inauguration.

The Dow rose by around 0.83%, the S&P 500 jumped 1.39%, and the Nasdaq rose by 1.97%.

It wasn't just Biden's inauguration that buoyed the markets. The jump also comes as Netflix announces that it added 8.5m new subscribers in the last three months of the year - exceeding 200m subscribers for the first time.

Michael Pack, who was appointed by Trump to oversee US-funded media outlets including Voice of America (VOA), has stepped down at the new administration's request, US media report.

In June, Pack was controversially appointed as the chief executive of the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) - a taxpayer-funded body that oversees global broadcasters including Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia and Middle East Broadcasting.

But shortly after taking office, the conservative filmmaker and former associate of ex-White House adviser Steve Bannon raised eyebrows by sacking three senior officials and installing Trump loyalists at the agency.

His actions were criticised by liberals and some conservatives, who feared that the broadcasters were being politicised.

The USAGM is tasked with broadcasting independent news to a global audience of more than 280 million people. It was created in 1942 to combat Nazi propaganda.

Read more about why the Voice of America matters here.

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Jim Sullivan is a conservative who twice voted for Donald Trump but was dismayed by his post-election behaviour. He hopes the Biden administration can work on uniting the country and moving on from the violence at the Capitol.

How did Joe Biden's inaugural speech on unity sit with you?

I didn't watch all of the speech, but I caught a good portion of it and I definitely sensed that theme. One quote that stood out to me was when he said "America leads not by the example of our power, but by the power of our example". It was a very good and important thing to say, and it sort of rings in my ears. Overall, I thought it was a good tone, but I don't know if it was conciliatory enough. We all want unity, but it seemed conditional, as if it was unity determined through the lens of the left. But I wish him well.

What do you think of the executive actions he is taking today?

It was to be expected. It's something that has been discussed and they've obviously put a lot of thought into it. Now they're in a position where they can pull the trigger and it's happening very speedily, which is perhaps unprecedented. A lot of the things dealing with the Covid pandemic - like extending the eviction ban - are good and I have no argument with them.

The former California senator has walked in to her new workplace with her husband Doug Emhoff by her side.

She and President Biden have a long list of tasks facing them, and the country - perhaps unparalleled in recent years.

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BBC News

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The new vice-president is making her way along Pennsylvania Avenue now, with her relatives.

Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff are making history in a number of ways, including bringing their blended family to the White House.

Harris (whose parents were Indian and Jamiaican immigrants) married Emhoff (who is Jewish) in 2014.

Emhoff has two children from his previous marriage, Cole and Ella, who famously call Harris “Momala”.

Harris is also close to her sister Maya. She and Harris lived with their mother after their parents divorced.

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To Maya’s daughter, Meena, Harris is like a “second mother” and is always called “auntie”.

Harris was one of the stars of Meena’s latest children’s book, "Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea".

Find out more here:

• Doug Emhoff: The first 'second dude' in the White House
• Why Kamala Harris embraces her biracial roots

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There was a sombre moment earlier - a brief silence at Arlington National Cemetery, where thousands of the country's heroes have been laid to rest.

It must have been especially poignant for the new president.

The eldest of Biden's two sons, Beau Biden, served a year-long tour of Iraq in 2008 as a captain in the Delaware National Guard.

He went on to become the Delaware Attorney General, and was seen as a rising star in US politics before his death from brain cancer at age 46 in 2015.

As a child, Beau survived a car crash that killed his mother Neilia and his baby sister Naomi in 1972.

When Biden first joined the Senate in 1973, he took his oath of office by his son's hospital bed. In front of cameras, Biden told the boys that he would quit the post if there was ever a "conflict between my being a good father and my being a good senator".

"We can always get another senator, but they can't get another father."

Laura Trevelyan
BBC World News America presenter

As the Beast limo carried the 46th president down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House, the atmosphere was strangely subdued.

No crowds.

Joe Biden then walked the final block to the White House, which was a hugely symbolic moment - the world could see the next US leader physically taking over the office, a reassuring sight after the 6 January storming of the Capitol.

The sounds of marching bands filled the air, a festive note on an otherwise low-key inauguration .

Joe Biden has just entered the White House for his first time as president.

Traditionally, the president-elect is invited to a meeting by the incumbent as part of the two-month transition between administrations. However, Mr Trump refused to concede the election and today he decamped for Florida rather than attend his rival's inauguration.

Here's what's still ahead:

• President Biden is walking towards the White House, which he will enter as president for the first time
• A virtual "Parade Across America" is also being held: participants are chiming in from across the country with musical performances and more
• Tony Goldwyn, who played the US president on TV show Scandal, will lead the virtual parade, with remarks from comedian Jon Stewart
• We'll also hear from Tik Tok stars Dr Jason Campbell, who films videos of himself and other medical workers dancing in hospital, and Nathan Apocada whose viral video of himself skateboarding while drinking cranberry juice led to an unlikely meeting with the band Fleetwood Mac.
• Once he enters the Oval Office at the White House, Biden is expected to issue a series of executive actions and swear in new administration officials
• White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki is due to hold a briefing at 19:00EST (midnight GMT)
• Tom Hanks will host a "Celebrating America" primetime televised event, in lieu of a traditional inaugural ball. Justin Timberlake, Katy Perry, Jon Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, John Legend and Foo Fighters are all due to give virtual performances

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The presidential motorcade has drawn to a halt and President Biden has emerged from his vehicle.

The new president will walk the remaining two blocks to the White House.

We believe he will be accompanied by bands from the two universities attended by Biden and Harris - the University of Delaware and Howard University.

The traditional inaugural parade down Pennsylvania Avenue is not taking place this year due to Covid.

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Restoring a long-running bipartisan tradition, in 2021, dogs are returning to the White House.

The Bidens have two German shepherds: Champ and Major.

Champ, 12, joined the family in 2008 soon after Joe Biden became vice-president, but Major will become the first shelter dog ever to live in the White House.

The young rescue pup was fostered by the Bidens in 2018 from the Delaware Humane Association’s shelter, where he bounced back from “a medical crisis”.

On Sunday, the DHA honoured Major with a virtual “indoguration” ceremony it hopes will shine a light on the resources an animal shelter brings to a community.

President Donald Trump was the first US president in 118 years to not have a dog in the White House.

In December, incoming First Llady Jill Biden hinted her two good boys may soon get a playmate: “I’d love to get a cat."

Find out more about the history of pets in the White House here.

The newly inaugurated president is on his way to the White House. In the meantime, look back at some of the big moments from today.

• Read the full transcript of Joe Biden's inauguration speech, or watch the moment he took the oath
• Meet the viral 22-year-old poet Amanda Gorman that everyone's talking about
• Here's the moment Kamala Harris made history
• Don't want to read? Here's the Biden inauguration - in pictures
• And finally, watch the moment outgoing President Trump left the White House for Florida

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The White House's official website has been updated to reflect its new occupant - and its Spanish-language updates are back.

Both Barack Obama and George W Bush offered Spanish versions of the White House website but they were not continued under Donald Trump's administration.

This is the latest sign of the differences between Biden and Trump's presidencies.

Vice-President Kamala Harris - who is herself the first female, black or Asian-American person to hold the office - took her oath today from the Supreme Court's first Latina judge, Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

Washington Post book critic Carlos Lozada has read a lot of books about Trump. And we do mean a lot.

In fact, he read 150 books about Trump when writing his own book - What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era.

Celebrating the end of an era today, he tweeted a photo of the MANY books on Trump that he has reviewed in the past four years.

Lyse Doucet
Chief International Correspondent

If a reminder was needed that America’s biggest challenges now lie at home, this was it.

It was only 15 minutes in, during a 20-minute speech, that President Biden turned his attention to the world, and only briefly.

His message seemed to rest on what had happened to America itself - “America secured liberty at home and stood once again as a beacon to the world."

US allies, exasperated by President Trump’s unpredictability, will welcome his successor’s pledge to “repair our alliances and engage with the world again".

In world capitals which benefited from President Trump’s transactional approach, there’s wariness now, if not worry.

But President Biden’s list of problems facing the US, from the deadly virus to the climate crisis and attacks on democracy and truth, are problems confronted the world over.

He cited one of his favourite maxims – “we will lead not merely by the example of our power, but by the power of our example.”

And he underlined that the world is watching.

The Biden/Harris administration was only sworn in a few hours ago.

But journalists and others are noticing that the incoming team is making all kinds of changes, some bigger than others.

The new president's motorcade has left Arlington National Ceremony after that wreath-laying ceremony.

Joe Biden is now travelling by car to Freedom Plaza, which is two blocks from the White House.

From there, he will have a "military parade escort" to the White House, which he will enter for the first time as president.

The new president is of course no stranger to the building, having served as vice-president for four years.

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President Joe Biden, and a number of his predecessors along with their partners, have been taking part in a ceremonial laying of the wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

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BBC News, Texas

Politics can catapult migration - especially to the US.

During President Trump’s time in office, we were introduced to the phenomenon of migrant “caravans” - large groups of migrants travelling together to the US.

Now, as Joe Biden is inaugurated, thousands of Central Americans are travelling up to the US by foot. Over the weekend, they were filmed clashing with security officials at the Guatemala border on their way north.

Their motivation? Escaping a hurricane-stricken Honduras and hopes that immigration policy will change under Biden.

"I have hope and faith in God, and in the good person that the United States has chosen,” Miguel Angel, an immigrant, told AFP.

They’re mostly right to believe that. Biden has pledged to reverse all of the Trump administration’s immigration policies and halt construction on the border wall as early as day one of his presidency.

He wants to expand opportunities for legal immigration and access to humanitarian visa programs. And he’s promised to restore the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) programme and a pathway to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of current Daca recipients, who are known as Dreamers.

But those promises haven’t come without criticism. During his vice-presidency under Barack Obama, the administration deported more than three million immigrants.