Soldiers took up positions in the U.S. Capitol in a scene reminiscent of Civil War deployments as Washington braced for the inauguration of a new president and a vote to impeach the current one.more
The US House of Representatives has impeached Donald Trump for fomenting a deadly insurrection at the Capitol on 6 January 2021, making him the first president in the nation’s history to be impeached twice.more
The House of Representatives voted Tuesday night to approve a resolution calling for President Donald Trump to be removed from office through the 25th Amendment in the wake of the violent siege of the US Capitol last week.more
The Canada-U.S. border will remain closed until at least Feb. 21 in an effort to curb rising cases of the novel coronavirus, Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday.more
The FBI warned of a violent "war" at the US Capitol in an internal report issued a day before last week's deadly siege, but it wasn't acted on urgently enough to prevent the domestic terrorist attack, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.more
YouTube is suspending President Donald Trump's channel for at least one week, and potentially longer, after his channel earned a strike under the platform's policies, the company said Tuesday evening.more
Following an incursion into Congress last Wednesday, supporters of the outgoing US president Donald Trump, President-elect Joe Biden said he was not afraid to be sworn in as president in front of the Capitol. Meanwhile, the relevant services are getting ready to control the next expected riots in front of this building.more
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House will move to impeach President Donald Trump if Vice President Mike Pence does not remove him. Pelosi said the House will attempt to pass a resolution by unanimous consent Monday morning calling for Pence and Trump's Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove Trump from office.more
US Democrats plan to introduce an article of impeachment against President Donald Trump for his role in Wednesday's invasion of the US Capitol. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she would move forward with impeachment if Mr Trump did not resign immediately.more
US President Donald Trump pledged in a White House video to transfer power smoothly on January 20. He also condemned Wednesday's attack on the Capitol by his supporters.more
Donald Trump has been banned from Facebook and Instagram “indefinitely” following the violence in Washington, DC. Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said that the president had used the platforms to “incite violent insurrection against a democratically elected government".more
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has condemned the "disgraceful scenes" in the US, after supporters of President Donald Trump stormed Congress and clashed with police.more
Four people died in yesterday's protests in Washington DC, where Donald Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building as Congress attempted to certify the results of last year's US election.more
The founder of the WikiLeaks whistleblower website, Julian Assange, will remain in prison. A British court refused to release him on bail pending a US appeal against the decision not to hand him over to the US authorities.more
The man who blew himself up on Christmas Eve in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, was a supporter of the September 11, 2001 conspiracy theories, believing in the existence of UFOs and reptilian people, according to local News Channel 5 reports.more
Joe Biden, the President-elect of the US, sent a letter to Andrzej Duda, Poland’s head of state, in which he expressed hope for cooperation in face of global challenges, Krzysztof Szczerski, the Chief of Staff of the Polish President announced.more
35 US states have sued the tech giant Google, accusing it of monopolistic practices. These actions are harmful to clients, state prosecutors general.more
A Connecticut nurse became the first person in the United States to be vaccinated against the coronavirus yesterday with the Moderny drug approved by the government three days ago. The vaccine was administered in front of television cameras.more
While the nation continues to see record levels of new Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths, wealthy patients in Southern California - the epicenter of the state's Covid-19 crisis - are offering to pay top dollar to cut the line and be among the first to receive a vaccine.more
The U.S. poverty rate has surged over the past five months, with 7.8 million Americans falling into poverty, the latest indication of how deeply many are struggling after government aid dwindled.more
