Can Trump deliver a greater America? Guardian US evaluates president-elect's promise in new series; Chelsea Manning to be released in May; NFL denies Lady Gaga censored from talking Trump A man and child wear 'Make America Great Again' hats. Photograph: Carlo Allegri/Reuters Nicole Puglise @nicolepuglise Trump's promise to make America great again The steel mills have sat dormant for 20 years in Northampton County, Pennsylvania – a county that had voted twice for Barack Obama before flipping and voting for Donald Trump in 2016. In a new series, the Guardian has been spending time in Northampton County, speaking to voters who have embraced Trump's promise to make America great again, and those who doubt it. We will continue to do so as the Trump presidency progresses, to find out how Trump has risen or fallen in the estimation of voters who confounded the pollsters and shocked the political classes by making him president. Bruce Haines, the managing owner of the Historic Hotel Bethlehem and a lifelong Republican, told Tom McCarthy: "Now it's like, it's almost like I left the country for eight years, and now it's back. Like the country that I grew up in is now returning. Now, whether all that will happen or not, who knows." Can Trump really make America great again? Manning's prison sentence commuted Chelsea Manning, the US army soldier who became one of the most prominent whistleblowers of modern times when she exposed the nature of warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan, and who then went on to pay the price with a 35-year military prison sentence, is to be freed in May after Obama commuted her sentence just three days before he leaves the White House. Manning, a transgender woman, will walk from a male military prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, on 17 May, almost seven years to the day since she was arrested at a base outside Baghdad for offenses relating to the leaking of a vast trove of US state secrets to the website WikiLeaks. Melinda Taylor, who serves on the legal team for Julian Assange, said that the WikiLeaks founder was "standing by" after pledging to agree to US extradition if Manning was granted clemency. Meanwhile NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's leave to remain in Russia has been extended for three years, his lawyer has said. Chelsea Manning's prison sentence commuted by Barack Obama Support the Guardian's fearless journalism Never has America needed fearless independent media more. Help us hold the new president to account, sort fact from fiction, amplify underrepresented voices, and understand the forces behind this divisive election – and what happens next. Support the Guardian by becoming a member or making a contribution. Senate confirmation hearings It's week two of confirmation hearings for Trump's cabinet picks. On Tuesday, his nominee for secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, faced questioning from the Senate, as did Ryan Zinke, his choice to lead the department of the interior. In her remarks, DeVos refused on Tuesday to state whether she would uphold the Obama administration's guidance on how to handle campus sexual assault. On the roster for today: Wilbur Ross, the nominee for commerce secretary, Tom Price for health secretary, Scott Pruitt, the nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, and Nikki Haley, the nominee for UN ambassador. Price, a congressman from Georgia, has recently come under fire from senators for buying and selling health-related stocks while he was an influential voice on health care policy in the House of Representatives. Pruitt, who has served as attorney general of Oklahoma since 2011, is a climate change skeptic who has sued the agency he has been chosen to lead. Scott Pruitt confirmation hearing for Environmental Protection Agency: the key points Xi Jinping signals China will champion free trade Joe Biden spoke on day two of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this morning in his final speech as US vice president, in which he criticized Russia and called on the richest 1% to pull their weight. On Tuesday, China's president, Xi Jinping, delivered a strong defense of globalization and criticized Trump's protectionist policies. Follow our live coverage of the event. Xi Jinping signals China will champion free trade if Trump builds barriers The legacy of Obama in seven drawings The Guardian's data editor, Mona Chalabi, illustrates seven numbers that illustrate what Obama did during his eight years in the White House – including number of jobs created, number of vacation days and number of drone strikes ordered. Diary of a Latino teen in age of Trump After Donald Trump won the election, the Guardian asked 17-year-old Angelina Alvarez – who, along with others, had worn a Dump Trump T-shirt in response to anti-immigrant, anti-Mexican, pro-Trump graffiti at school – to keep a diary of her feelings in this new era. "I don't even know what to think. I'm just scared, I want to be with my grandma right now and just hug her," she wrote on election day. 'Don't tell me it's going to be OK': diary of a Latino teenager in the age of Trump NFL on alleged Lady Gaga politics ban Rumors that Lady Gaga would be blocked from speaking out about politics or Donald Trump during her upcoming Super Bowl half-time show have been denied by the National Football League. "This is unsourced nonsense from people trying to stir up controversy where there is none. The Super Bowl is a time when people really come together," the NFL's Natalie Ravitz told CNN. "Lady Gaga is focused on putting together an amazing show for fans and we love working with her on it; we aren't going to be distracted by this." The Super Bowl will be on 5 February. NFL denies Lady Gaga is banned from mentioning Donald Trump at Super Bowl And finally ... fatbiking grows in popularity Fatbikes – named for their comically thick tires – look like monster trucks of the biking world, Merope Mills writes. 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