DECEMBER 2020/JANUARY 2021 ● NEWS ● VOL. 11 ● NO. 12 EDITION 2

PRESIDENT-ELECT AND VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT OF THE UNITED STATES November 7, 2020

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Harris and Biden stand onstage with family, including spouses Doug Emhoff and Jill Biden, on November 7.

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Joe Biden will be the 46th president. She will be the first president of the United States. woman to have the job. She will be He won the 2020 presidential the first Black vice president. And election. He ran against President she will be the first Indian-American . The win was vice president. announced on November 7. That “While I may be the first woman was four days after Election Day. in this office, I will not be the last,” “America, I’m honored that you Harris said. have chosen me to lead our great country,” Biden wrote on on Ready to Lead November 7. More Americans voted in this will be vice election than in any in U.S. history.

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SEPTEMBER DAWN BOTTOMS FOR TIME Biden receives the Medal of Freedom putting together a team. They are from President in January 2017. coming up with plans. There are OLIVIER DOULIERY—GETTY IMAGES/POOL challenges ahead. But Biden and Many voted by mail. That’s because Harris say they will work to unite the of the pandemic. It took more time country. “I will work as hard for those to count the mail-in votes. This who didn’t vote for me as I will for delayed the results. those who did,” Biden said in his Trump does not agree with the victory speech. —By Allison Singer results. He has questioned the voting process. But there has been no sign MAJOR AND ASSOCIATION/AP HUMANE DELAWARE STEPHANIE CARTER— of a major problem. CHAMP Biden and Harris will be sworn in Many U.S. presidents have on January 20, 2021. That is had pets. Biden has Inauguration Day. Yet they are two dogs. They are German shepherds. already hard at work. They are One is named Champ. The other is Major Power Words (pictured). Biden honored adjective: treated with great respect adopted him from a unite verb: to bring together shelter. Major will be the first shelter dog to live in the . He and Champ will keep each other company.

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G21204P2.3.indd 3 11/19/20 1:46 PM KID CENTRAL INCREDIBLE KIDS Who’ll become the Kid of the Year? The answer will be revealed December 5 on an hour-long TV special on Nickelodeon and CBS. These two inspiring kids are among the top 20 finalists. COURTESY TOSHA WOODARD TOSHA COURTESY COURTESY THE DALTONS THE COURTESY

BELLEN WOODARD, 9, is a JACK DALTON, 10, teaches “crayon activist.” She saw there kids about orangutans. He is were no crayons to match a youth ambassador for the some of the skin tones in her Orangutan Alliance. He travels classroom. So she began to to zoos, museums, and schools “change the language” about around the country. He also skin-colored crayons. She sells bags to benefit the used her own money to make animals. He hopes to inspire packets of crayons in diverse other people to care about the skin tones. She gave them endangered apes. “I really to other kids. Bellen now has want to protect animals,” Jack her own brand of multicultural says. “That’s why I work for crayons. It’s called Bellen’s this cause. We need everyone More than Peach. to contribute to it.”

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