REUTERS 2021-01-08 16:12:59
Congressional Democrats on Friday weighed impeaching President Donald Trump for a second time, two days after his false claims of election fraud helped encourage a mob that stormed the US Capitol. De...
REUTERS 2021-01-08 10:55:01
Democratic control of the Senate offers President-elect Joe Biden an opportunity to advance parts of his climate agenda, but the paper-thin majority likely puts sweeping global warming legislation bey...
Reuters 2021-01-08 09:04:49
US President Donald Trump faced the threat on Thursday of a second impeachment, a day after his supporters breached the US Capitol in a stunning assault on American democracy as Congress was certifyin...
Reuters 2021-01-07 18:59:55
The bloody chaos inside the US Capitol on Wednesday came after the police force that protects the legislative complex was overrun by a mob of Trump supporters in what law enforcement officials called...
Reuters 2021-01-07 16:27:19
A majority of the US House of Representatives on Thursday morning voted down a move by allies of President Donald Trump to reject Pennsylvania's electoral votes for Democrat Joe Biden, a last-ditch at...
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Hours after hundreds of President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the US Capitol in a harrowing assault on American democracy, a shaken Congress on Thursday formally certified Democrat Joe Bid...
Reuters 2021-01-07 12:02:59
Twitter, Facebook and Snap temporarily locked the accounts of US President Donald Trump on Wednesday, as tech giants scrambled to crack down on his baseless claims about the US presidential election a...
-- 2021-01-07 11:04:31
Four people died on the US Capitol grounds Wednesday and 52 people have been arrested, Metropolitan Police Department Chief Robert J. Contee said Wednesday evening, after supporters of President Donal...
-- 2021-01-07 10:53:27
Two top aides to first lady Melania Trump resigned on Wednesday in the wake of violence on Capitol Hill, and more top White House officials were considering resigning, including national security advi...
-- 2021-01-07 10:03:31
Hundreds of President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday in a bid to overturn his election defeat, occupying the symbol of American democracy and forcing Congress to s...
AP 2021-01-06 18:06:28
President Donald Trump’s extraordinary effort to overturn the presidential election is going before Congress as lawmakers convene for a joint session to confirm the Electoral College vote won by...
-- 2021-01-06 14:06:41
US President Donald Trump is seeking the dismissal of a lawsuit claiming he defrauded his niece out of an inheritance worth tens of millions of dollars, accusing her of embracing “conspiracy the...
-- 2021-01-06 11:07:39
Democrats and Republicans were locked in tight US Senate races in Georgia on Tuesday as final votes were counted in a showdown that will decide whether President-elect Joe Biden enjoys control of Cong...
Reuters 2021-01-04 11:21:57
US President Donald Trump pressured Georgia’s top election official to “find” enough votes to overturn his defeat in the southern state, according to a recording of the hour-long cal...
Reuters 2021-01-04 11:10:35
Nancy Pelosi was narrowly reelected speaker of the US House of Representatives on Sunday, as a new Congress took office amid political uncertainty, with Senate control undecided and a Republican fight...
REUTERS 2021-01-03 10:42:00
US Senator Ted Cruz on Saturday said he will spearhead a drive by nearly a dozen Republican senators to challenge President-elect Joe Biden’s victory when Electoral College results are tallied i...
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The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Thursday said that more than 371,500 children would be born on the first day of 2021. “The children born today enter a world far different th...
Reuters 2021-01-02 16:55:50
US Senator Mitt Romney on Friday urged the US government to immediately enlist veterinarians, combat medics and others in an all-out national campaign to administer coronavirus vaccinations and slow a...
-- 2021-01-02 12:55:05
President Donald Trump suffered a stinging rebuke in the US Senate on Friday when fellow Republicans joined Democrats to override a presidential veto for the first time in his tenure, pushing through...
REUTERS 2021-01-01 14:35:56
US President Donald Trump on Thursday extended a pair of immigration bans that block many “green card” applicants and temporary foreign workers from entering the country, measures he says...
-- 2020-12-31 12:17:57
US Republican Senator Josh Hawley on Wednesday pledged to challenge Democrat President-elect Joe Biden’s victory when Congress convenes to officially tally the electoral votes, which could trigg...
AP 2020-12-30 16:21:47
Argentina’s Senate passed a law legalising abortion early Wednesday after a marathon 12-hour session, a victory for the women’s movement that has been fighting for the right for decades....
-- 2020-12-30 12:22:06
Canada published the draft Clean Fuel Standard this month, which is central to the ruling Liberal Party’s commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030. The...
-- 2020-12-30 11:44:10
The first reported US case of the highly-infectious Covid-19 variant that emerged in the UK has been confirmed in the state of Colorado. The patient, a man in his 20s with no recent travel history, i...
-- 2020-12-29 11:04:55
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Monday said it was finalising the first-ever proposed standards regulating greenhouse gas emissions from airplanes. The EPA said its new requirements f...
-- 2020-12-28 10:11:48
US President Donald Trump on Sunday signed into law a $2.3 trillion pandemic aid and spending package, restoring unemployment benefits to millions of Americans and averting a federal government shutdo...
Reuters 2020-12-27 22:34:09
US President Donald Trump’s threat not to sign a $2.3 trillion spending package approved by Congress has already shuttered an emergency unemployment aid programme and threatens a partial federal...
-- 2020-12-25 14:04:43
A Mexican nurse became the first person in Latin America to receive a coronavirus jab when her country began its vaccination programme on Thursday. Mexico has received an initial shipment of 3,000 do...
-- 2020-12-23 17:11:15
The coronavirus has landed in Antarctica, the last continent previously free from COVID-19, Chile’s military said this week, as health and army officials scrambled to clear out and quarantine st...
Reuters 2020-12-23 11:07:19
A Texas-led coalition of nine states urged a federal judge on Tuesday to invalidate a programme that grants hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the United States as children the ability to...
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