Kamala Harris has been sworn in as vice president of the United States, making history as the first woman as well as the first Black and South Asian American person to hold the office.

Harris, the former senator of California, was sworn in before her running mate Joe Biden was sworn in as president right outside the Capitol in Washington, D.C. just before noon local time on a brisk Washington, D.C., morning at a heavily secure Capitol.

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Swearing Harris in was Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotamayor, who is the first Latina to serve on the highest court in the land. Read more at The Hill