Inauguration Day LIVE updates: Joe Biden signs first executive orders to rejoin Paris climate accord and end Muslim travel ban

Summary

• Donald Trump's presidency came to an end at 4am AEDT when Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States.
• Kamala Harris has become the first woman, the first black person and the first person of South Asian descent elected to the vice-presidency.  
• Trump is the first outgoing president to skip his successor’s swearing-in ceremony in 152 years. He left the White House for Florida early on Inauguration Day.
• Moments after Trump flew out of Washington DC, Biden tweeted: "It's a new day in America".
• The inauguration unfolded at the Capitol two weeks to the day after it was battered by an insurrectionist siege, and which is now encircled by security forces.