The Mercury News - 2021-01-21

• ‘DEMOC­RACY HAS PREVAILED’ BI­DEN, HAR­RIS SWORN IN, FACE A CAS­CADE OF NA­TIONAL CRISES
• On day one, Bi­den tar­gets cli­mate, virus, im­mi­gra­tion
• Quiet re­flec­tion ush­ers in Bi­den, Har­ris era
• Santa Clara Univer­sity pres­i­dent of­fi­ci­ates Mass for Bi­den.
• With Bi­den, world lead­ers hope for re­newed co­op­er­a­tion.
• In fi­nal speech as pres­i­dent, Trump hints at a come­back.
• WEATHER
• Bi­den in­au­gu­ra­tion sig­nals wel­come re­turn to re­al­ity.
• Term ‘Road Boul­ders’ is not go­ing any­where
• Lawyer says ex-royal staff will shed light on Meghan let­ter
• TO­DAY IN HIS­TORY
• News of the weird
• States short on vac­cine; ap­point­ments can­celed
• Se­nate con­firms Cab­i­net pick; 3 new Dem se­na­tors sworn in
• New CDC di­rec­tor takes over agency in midst of cri­sis
• China la­bels Pom­peo ‘dooms­day clown’
• Woman who calls Bali ‘queer friendly’ to be de­ported
• Set­ting the record straight
• The Proud Boys now mock Trump
• The world hop­ing for re­newed co­op­er­a­tion un­der Bi­den
• Why John Adams skipped the in­au­gu­ra­tion of 1801
• GOP must dis­tance party from Trump
• Ser­vice an­i­mals fly­ing on flights cru­cial for many
• COVID-19 ef­fort in­ad­e­quate on all fronts
• Col­umn hangs ar­gu­ment on false equiv­a­lency
• Na­tion must face white priv­i­lege is­sue
• It’s Repub­li­cans’ move if na­tion is to heal
• HAVE YOUR SAY Let­ters to the ed­i­tor:
• Will GOP em­u­late Rus­sian op­po­si­tion leader’s courage?
• Give Joe Bi­den the chance to break our na­tional fever
• Mayor: Blast kills 4, linked to a gas leak
• Key­stone XL halted as Bi­den de­cides to re­voke its per­mit
• Ne­tanyahu courts Arab vot­ers
• Black Amer­i­cans are re­ceiv­ing shots at lower rates
• An­other set­back for SAT test­ing
• Fire evac­u­a­tion or­ders lifted
• Hav­ing in­sur­rec­tion anx­i­ety? Talk about it
• Park named af­ter for­mer pres­i­dent gets new ti­tle
• Pro­posal for 24-hour cannabis pro­duc­tion is tabled
• The Daily Com­muter
• Eater­ies, bars can get thou­sands in re­lief grants
• ‘Bark­ing’ episodes have bite
• Bridge >>
• Horo­scope >>
• Karls­son ad­dresses ques­tions about his play, Sharks’ sea­son start
• Scott says he’s step­ping down af­ter 12 years as com­mis­sioner
• Shaw shrugs at ad­vo­cacy by Saints’ Pay­ton
• OFF-CEN­TER
• Yet an­other loss as Lynch’s aide to leave for Wash­ing­ton
• Colts quar­ter­back Philip Rivers calls it quits af­ter 17 years
• Ge­orge Springer gets $150 mil­lion from Toronto
• UP NEXT
• CIF should be flex­i­ble on foot­ball sea­son date of con­clu­sion
• New Mex­ico col­lege teams re­turn­ing home
• HOLES-IN-ONE
• Pulling two stars from play­off games is progress
• Chiefs’ Mahomes prac­tices, still in con­cus­sion pro­to­col
• War­riors honor VP Har­ris with spe­cial, framed jer­sey
• Sex­ton, Cava­liers spoil Irv­ing’s re­turn for Nets
• UP NEXT
• Prov­i­dence shuts down Creighton, avenges a de­feat
• Ovechkin goes on COVID list; Hur­ri­canes games called off
• LO­CAL SCHED­ULE MEN Wed­nes­day’s re­sults
• Kirk’s long road back ends with pos­i­tive fin­ish
• THIS WEEK’S GOLF TOUR­NA­MENTS PGA TOUR
• Sudoku
• Pre­vi­ous so­lu­tion
• More puz­zles
• Cannabis firms get ac­cess to more bank­ing ser­vices
• Mar­kets set records on hopes of stim­u­lus
• Neiman Mar­cus closes Wal­nut Creek store
• Ex­ec­u­tive who stole trade se­crets freed
• Air­fare hits record low due to weak de­mand
• Google loan, pur­chase bol­ster af­ford­able homes
• TV's WIN­TER WON­DERS
• ‘Clarice’
• ‘The Long Song’
• ‘The Equal­izer’
• ‘Los­ing Alice’
• ‘Fire­fly Lane’
• ‘Su­per­man & Lois’
• ‘Res­i­dent Alien’
• ‘Walker’
• ‘The Sis­ter’
• 6 al­bums you need to know about
• Stream th­ese: San Francisco Bal­let, Stein­way So­ci­ety, Pear Theatre
• Sun­dance goes on the road
• TV tips: New ‘Walker’; ‘Salt-N-Pepa’ biopic
• Kohl Man­sion goes vir­tual
• CHEW­ING THE FAT WITH NANCY SILVERTON
• Pi­anists show how to play through pan­demic
• SOLO PIANO RECITALS
• S.F. Sym­phony sets 2021 stream­ing sea­son un­der Esa-Pekka Salo­nen
• ‘Evil Dead’ fans in­vited to watch party with Campbell
• ‘LOCKED DOWN’
• ‘Locked Down’ mir­rors quar­an­tine ex­pe­ri­ences
• ‘EVIL DEAD’ WATCH PARTY
• ‘SCOTT PIL­GRIM VS. THE WORLD: THE GAME’

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