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And now, Preston and Steve's news update with Kathy Romano.

It's Thursday, January 21st.

Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning in the news this morning.

President Joe Biden signed a series of executive orders from the Oval Office hours after his inauguration.

Biden wore a mask while seated behind the resolute desk with a stack of orders early Wednesday evening. He said there was no time to start like today.

Biden signed three orders on camera for reporters, first creating a mask mandate on federal properties, then in order to address

underserved communities and create a standard of equality. The third order rejoins the Paris Climate

Accord, fulfilling a campaign pledge. The move undoes the U.S. withdrawal order by predecessor

Donald Trump, who belittled the science behind climate efforts, loosens regulations on heat-trapping

oil, gas, and coal

emissions and spurred oil and gas leasing in pristine Arctic tundra and other wilderness.

The Paris Accord commits 195 countries to come up with a goal to reduce carbon pollution

and monitor and report their fossil fuel emissions. The United States is the world's number

two carbon emitter after China.

Biden also issued executive orders reversing some of former President Donald Trump's immigration policies,

such as halting work at a U.S.-Mexican border wall and lifting a travel ban on people from several predominantly Muslim countries.

He also ordered his cabinet to work to keep

deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of people brought to the United States as

children. There were more than a dozen more executive orders Biden was signing on his first day.

President Donald Trump late Tuesday issued a final batch of pardons and commutations. Among those pardoned was Gary Hendler of

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