WASHINGTON -- Joe Biden, formally chosen as the next U.S. president by the Electoral College on Monday, faces the complex and arduous tasks of healing a country torn along political, racial and economic lines and restoring public confidence in democratic institutions.
"The flame of democracy was lit in this nation a long time ago," Biden said Monday evening in an address to the nation. "We now know that nothing, not even a pandemic or an abuse of power, can extinguish that flame."
