The Weeknd accused the Recording Academy of being “corrupt,” and an unidentified source told Rolling Stone that his team had been given an ultimatum over his performing at the Super Bowl in proximity to the originally scheduled Grammys ceremony.

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About 80 to 100 members of Congress also were gathered in the Capitol Rotunda for the ceremony, with more filing in afterward to pay their respects to Sicknick.

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Lynch had tested negative for the virus before attending the inaugural ceremonies, Tarpey said.

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They suggest the whole ceremony was a deepfake or filmed days earlier, thereby making it unofficial.

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Though some years have passed, he still finds a great deal of joy being involved in the ceremony and is delighted to return to mark another President’s swearing in.

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All of this, of course, came late in the ceremony, after Lady Gaga had made her own offering to the proceedings, a cover version of the world’s most unsingable song, “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

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The Shinkansen “bullet train”—the world’s first high-speed railway—was unveiled a week before the opening ceremony.

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