US Attorney General Bill Barr holds a news conference to provide an update on the investigation of the terrorist bombing of Pan Am flight 103 on the 32nd anniversary of the attack, at the Department of Justice Dec.

21, 2020 in Washington, D..C. (Phot WASHINGTON - Former Attorney General William Barr says President Donald Trump’s conduct as a violent mob of his supporters stormed the U.S.

Capitol was a "betrayal of his office and supporters."In a statement to The Associated Press, Barr said Thursday that "orchestrating a mob to pressure Congress is inexcusable."Barr was one of Trump’s most loyal and ardent defenders in the Cabinet.His comments come a day after angry and armed protesters broke into the U.S.

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NYC to terminate Trump contracts after Capitol riot

NEW YORK - New York City will terminate business contracts with President Donald Trump after last week's insurrection at the U.S.

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Donald Trump faces 2nd impeachment vote: Here’s what to know

Donald Trump is on the verge of becoming the first president to be impeached twice, as lawmakers move quickly to punish him over last week’s deadly U.S. Capitol attack.Trump’s fiery speech at a rally just before the Jan.

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NYC to terminate Trump contracts after Capitol insurrection

NEW YORK – New York City will terminate business contracts with President Donald Trump after last week's insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Wednesday.The Trump Organization is under city contract to operate the two ice rinks and a carousel in Central Park as well as a golf course in the Bronx.The Trump Organization profits about $17 million a year from those sites, de Blasio said.“I’m here to announce that the city of New York is severing all contracts with the Trump Organization,” de Blasio said.An email seeking comment was sent Wednesday to the Trump Organization.It is the latest example of how the Jan.

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The Latest: GOP lawmaker expects more Republicans to impeach

WASHINGTON – The Latest on the fallout from the attack of the U.S. Capitol by pro-Trump loyalists (all times local):8:15 a.m.Republican Rep.

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After Capitol breach, House verge of 2nd Trump impeachment

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump is on the verge of being impeached for a second time, the House planning the unprecedented vote one week after he encouraged a mob of loyalists to "fight like hell" against election results and the U.S.

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Google to indefinitely disable comments on President Trump's YouTube channel and temporarily ban new uploads

Donald Trump walks to the White House residence after exiting Marine One upon his return on January 12, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)PHOENIX - Officials with Google have taken action against President Donald Trump's YouTube account, days after the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol.According to tweets made on YouTube's verified Twitter account, Google, which owns YouTube, will remove new content uploaded to the Donald J.

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What to watch as House moves to impeach Trump for 2nd time

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is on the verge of becoming the first president to be impeached twice, as lawmakers move quickly to punish him over last week's deadly U.S. Capitol attack.

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Trump on verge of 2nd impeachment after Capitol siege

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is on the verge of being impeached for a second time, the House planning the unprecedented vote one week after he encouraged a mob of loyalists to “fight like hell” against election results and the U.S. Capitol became the target of a deadly siege.While the first impeachment of Trump last year brought no Republican votes in the House, a small but significant number of leaders and other lawmakers are breaking with the party to join Democrats on Wednesday, unwilling to put American decency and democracy at further risk, even with days remaining in the president's term.

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Asian stocks mixed after Wall St rebounds from uncertainty

BEIJING – Asian stock markets were mixed Wednesday after Wall Street rebounded, shrugging off uncertainty about a possible new attempt to impeach President Donald Trump over last week's attack on the U.S.

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World warily watches America's postelection aftershocks

PARIS – For America's allies and rivals alike, the chaos unfolding during Donald Trump's final days as president is the logical result of four years of global instability brought on by the man who promised to change the way the world viewed the United States.From the outside, the United States has never looked so vulnerable — or unpredictable.Alliances that had held for generations frayed to a breaking point under Trump — from his decision to back out of the Paris climate accord and the Iran nuclear deal, to quitting the World Health Organization amid a pandemic.And then, by seeking to overturn his loss to Joe Biden, Trump upended the bedrock principle of democratic elections that the United States has tried — and sometimes even succeeded —

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U.S. Capitol riot: Trump blasts second impeachment effort, defends riot remarks as ‘totally appropriate’

Speaking to reporters en route to Texas on Tuesday, U.S. president Donald Trump lambasted House and Senate Democrats over their attempts to impeach him a second time, calling the effort “divisive.” Trump also defended his remarks made before and during the Capitol building riot as “totally appropriate” and attacked Big Tech companies for this decision to remove him from a variety of social media platforms.

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Trump's Republican wall eroding ahead of impeachment vote

Republicans offered only modest reproach when President Donald Trump said there were “very fine people” on both sides of a white supremacist rally. They stayed in line when Trump was caught pressuring a foreign leader and later defended his handling of a deadly pandemic.But with a sudden force, the wall of Republican support that has enabled Trump to weather a seemingly endless series of crises is beginning to erode.Trump's weakened standing among his own party will come into sharper focus on Wednesday when the House is expected to impeach the president for inciting a riot at the U.S.

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Manitoba Proud Boys disband following Jan. 6 violence at U.S. Capitol

pro-Trump violence at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.Through an email account used by the Proud Boys Manitoba, the group confirmed to Global News on Tuesday it had folded.“Proud Boys Manitoba are formally disbanding due to ever-growing differences between our autonomous chapter’s values and how the name is perceived,” the group said in a statement.“Although we as an organization have always been opposed to political violence, the recent events in the United States has (sic) made it impossible for us to continue.

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House passes measure urging Pence to invoke 25th Amendment, impeachment next

WASHINGTON - The U.S. House rushed ahead Tuesday toward impeaching President Donald Trump for the deadly Capitol attack, taking time only to try to persuade his vice president to push him out first.

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Pelosi names Rep. Madeleine Dean among Trump impeachment managers

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No. 3 House GOP leader backs Trump impeachment as tide grows

WASHINGTON – Republican opposition to impeaching President Donald Trump began crumbling at the party's upper echelons on Tuesday as the No. 3 House GOP leader said she would vote to impeach Trump.

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Trump business backlash part of 'cancel culture,' son says

NEW YORK – The PGA canceled its tournament at his golf course. Banks say they won’t lend to him anymore.

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Supreme Court says women seeking abortion pill must obtain it in person despite ongoing COVID-19 pandemic

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ordered Tuesday that women must visit a doctor's office, hospital or clinic in person to obtain an abortion pill during the COVID-19 pandemic, though similar rules for other drugs have been suspended during the public health emergency.Eight days before President Donald Trump leaves office, the justices granted a Trump administration appeal to be able to enforce a longstanding rule on getting the abortion pill, mifepristone. The pill need not be taken in the presence of medical professionals.The court split 6-3, with the liberal justices in dissent.

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Pence says he won’t use 25th Amendment to remove Trump as 6 House Republicans introduce censure

WASHINGTON - Vice President Mike Pence said he has ruled out invoking the 25th Amendment to remove President Donald Trump from power, less than a week after the violent pro-Trump insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

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Fury at the shaken Capitol over the attack, security, virus

WASHINGTON – This time the fury enveloping the Capitol comes not from an insurgent mob but from within.The anger on display is searing — Democrat against Republican; Republican against Republican; legislators of both parties against the catastrophic security failure that left top leaders of the government vulnerable to last week's violence as well as to the coronavirus in their ranks. This is a “powder keg” moment, one Democrat said.

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GOP Reps. Liz Cheney, John Katko say they’ll vote for Trump’s impeachment

Rep. John Katko, R-N.Y., leaves the House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on Wednesday, June 10, 2015.

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US appeals court rules Philadelphia's supervised injection site defies drug law

PHILADELPHIA - A divided appeals court on Tuesday rejected a plan to open a supervised injection site in Philadelphia to try to reduce overdose deaths, concluding the operation would violate a 1980s-era drug law aimed at "crackhouses."The 2-1 decision proved the latest setback for city officials, an ex-governor and public health advocates who support the Safehouse plan as more than 100 people die in the U.S. each day from drug overdoses.

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Pompeo hits Iran for al-Qaida support on his way out

WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday accused Iran of having secret ties with the al-Qaida network and imposed new sanctions on several senior Iranian officials. Pompeo’s comments come just a week before the Trump administration leaves office and appeared aimed at President-elect Joe Biden’s stated desire to resume negotiations with Iran over the 2015 nuclear deal.

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Early warning signs emerge for GOP after US Capitol riots

HARRISBURG, Pa. - In the 36 hours after last week’s deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, 112 Republicans reached out to the election office in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to change their party registration.

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Murphy to deliver 3rd state of the state remotely Tuesday

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (Edwin J. Torres/Governor’s Office)TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey Democratic Gov.

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House speeding to impeach Trump for 'insurrection' following deadly Capitol riot

WASHINGTON - Poised to impeach, the House sped ahead with plans to oust President Donald Trump from office, warning he is a threat to democracy and pushing the vice president and Cabinet to act even more quickly in an extraordinary effort to remove Trump in the final days of his presidency.Trump faces a single charge — "incitement of insurrection" — after the deadly Capitol riot in an impeachment resolution that the House will begin debating Wednesday.At the same time, the FBI warned ominously Monday of potential armed protests in Washington and many states by Trump loyalists ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration Jan. 20.

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Trump heads to Texas in final days of presidency to showcase border wall

WASHINGTON - After days out of sight following the Capitol siege, President Donald Trump travels to Texas to trumpet one of the pillars of his presidency: his campaign against illegal immigration.Trump will be flying Tuesday to Alamo, Texas, a city in the Rio Grande Valley near the U.S-Mexican border. The city is named after the San Antonio mission where a small group of Texan independence-fighters fended off Mexican forces during a 13-day siege.

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Twitter removes more than 70K QAnon-associated accounts following Trump ban

LOS ANGELES - Following the permanent suspension of President Donald Trump’s personal Twitter account last week, Twitter says it has deactivated more than 70,000 accounts tied to the QAnon conspiracy theory.The company said the users were banned for being engaged "in sharing harmful QAnon-associated content at scale and were primarily dedicated to the propagation of this conspiracy theory across the service." RELATED: Trump rails against Twitter from @POTUS handle after platform permanently suspends his account"Our updated enforcement on QAnon content on Twitter, along with routine spam challenges, has resulted in changes in follower count for some people’s Twitter accounts.

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Trump heads to Texas border in final days to showcase wall

WASHINGTON – After days out of sight following the Capitol siege, President Donald Trump travels to Texas to trumpet one of the pillars of his presidency: his campaign against illegal immigration.Trump will be flying Tuesday to Alamo, Texas, a city in the Rio Grande Valley near the U.S-Mexican border. The city is named after the San Antonio mission where a small group of Texan independence-fighters fended off Mexican forces during a 13-day siege.

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House speeding to impeach Trump for Capitol 'insurrection'

WASHINGTON – Poised to impeach, the House sped ahead with plans to oust President Donald Trump from office, warning he is a threat to democracy and pushing the vice president and Cabinet to act even more quickly in an extraordinary effort to remove Trump in the final days of his presidency.Trump faces a single charge — “incitement of insurrection” — after the deadly Capitol riot in an impeachment resolution that the House will begin debating Wednesday. At the same time, the FBI warned ominously Monday of potential armed protests in Washington and many states by Trump loyalists ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration Jan.

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Poll: 74% of US voters think democracy under threat, 52% want president removed after pro-Trump riot

LOS ANGELES - Most Americans were shaken after last week’s U.S.

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Democrats and Republicans prepare to impeach Trump a second time

Democrats have introduced an article of impeachment against U.S. President Donald Trump for ‘incitement of insurrection,’ accusing him of instigating the violent attack at the Capitol.

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Canadian social media sleuths track down U.S. Capitol rioters

After the pro-Donald Trump siege of the U.S. Capitol, Canadian internet sleuths are helping identify rioters. Mike Drolet explains how the bravado of some attackers is making them easy to find.

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After frosty few days, Pence, Trump appear to reach détente

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence appear to have come to a détente after nearly a week of silence, anger and finger-pointing.The two met Monday evening in the Oval Office and had a “good conversation,” according to a senior administration official. It was their first time speaking since last Wednesday, when Trump incited his supporters to storm the Capitol building as Pence was presiding over certification of November's election results.

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Belichick won't get Presidential Medal of Freedom after all

New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick said on Monday night that he will not receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, saying “remaining true to the people, team and country I love outweigh the benefits of any individual award.”In a one-paragraph statement, the six-time Super Bowl winning coach did not say explicitly that he had turned down the offer from President Donald Trump, instead explaining “the decision has been made not to move forward with the award” in the wake of last week's deadly siege on the U.S.

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Police move to increase security at Pennsylvania Capitol

(Commonwealth of Pennsylvania) HARRISBURG, Pa. - Police who guard the Pennsylvania Capitol are working to be more visible and have been coordinating plans with other agencies to secure the building since a violent mob stormed and occupied the U.S.

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Patriots coach Bill Belichick declines Presidential Medal of Freedom in wake of pro-Trump Capitol riot

Head coach Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots complains to officials during a 24-3 Los Angeles Rams win at SoFi Stadium on December 10, 2020 in Inglewood, California. WASHINGTON (AP) - New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick said on Monday night that he will not receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, saying "remaining true to the people, team and country I love outweigh the benefits of any individual award."In a one-paragraph statement, the six-time Super Bowl winning coach did not say explicitly that he had turned down the offer from President Donald Trump, instead explaining "the decision has been made not to move forward with the award" in the wake of last week's deadly siege on the U.S.

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Florida manatee found with ‘TRUMP’ carved into its skin

manatee was found with U.S. President Donald Trump’s last name carved into its back.The animal was found in the Blue Hole spring on the Homosassa River in northern Florida over the weekend.

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2 Capitol Police officers suspended after riot

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio says two U.S.

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Trump's Homeland Security chief resigns earlier than planned

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s acting head of the Department of Homeland Security resigned Monday, leaving the post earlier than planned and as the nation faces a heightened threat from domestic terrorism from extremists seeking to reverse the November election.Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf said he had intended to stay in the post until the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. But Wolf, who had been serving in an acting capacity since November 2019 and was never confirmed by the Senate, said he was compelled to leave by “recent events,” including court rulings that found he could not legally hold the position.

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US Capitol siege a more sinister attack than first appeared as videos emerge

WASHINGTON - Under battle flags bearing Donald Trump's name, the Capitol's attackers pinned a bloodied police officer in a doorway, his twisted face and screams captured on video. They mortally wounded another officer with a blunt weapon and body-slammed a third over a railing into the crowd."Hang Mike Pence!" the insurrectionists chanted as they pressed inside, beating police with pipes.

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Supreme Court rejects fast track for Trump election cases

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Monday formally refused to put on a fast track election challenges filed by President Donald Trump and his allies.The court rejected pleas for quick consideration of cases involving the outcome in five states won by President-elect Joe Biden: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.The orders, issued without comment, were unsurprising. The justices had previously taken no action in those cases in advance of last week's counting of the electoral votes in Congress, which confirmed Biden's victory.

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Belarus leader defends hosting hockey worlds, ridicules US

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko defended his country’s ability to host this year’s hockey world championships on Monday by ridiculing the United States following the violent attack at the Capitol.The authoritarian leader met with International Ice Hockey Federation president Rene Fasel for talks amid calls to move the world championships following mass protests against Lukashenko’s rule.He told Fasel that the protests would not make it unsafe for Belarus to host the tournament, and compared his country with the United States, where supporters of President Donald Trump rioted at the Capitol last week.“In our country, protesters and other dissatisfied people don’t storm government agencies and capitols,” Lukashenko said.

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Melania Trump breaks silence on deadly Capitol siege, 'disappointed' by Trump supporters' riot

WASHINGTON - First lady Melania Trump broke her silence Monday about the deadly siege of the U.S. Capitol last week, condemning the violence by which she said she is "disappointed and disheartened," and mourning the police and supporters of President Donald Trump who died in the attack."Our Nation must heal in a civil manner.

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Pelosi says House will impeach Trump if Pence doesn’t act to remove him with 25th Amendment

WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the House will proceed with legislation to impeach President Donald Trump as she pushes the vice president and the Cabinet to invoke constitutional authority force him out, warning that Trump is a threat to democracy after the deadly assault on the Capitol.The House action could start as soon as Monday as pressure increases on Trump to step aside. A Republican senator, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, joined Republican Sen.

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Germany's Merkel: Trump's Twitter eviction 'problematic'

BERLIN – German Chancellor Angela Merkel considers U.S. President Donald Trump's eviction from Twitter by the company “problematic,” her spokesman said Monday.Twitter permanently suspended Trump from the microblogging platform on Friday, citing a “risk of further incitement of violence” in the wake of the storming of the U.S.

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Biden chooses veteran diplomat William Burns as CIA director

President of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Amb.

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Biden chooses veteran diplomat Burns as CIA director

WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden announced Monday he has chosen veteran diplomat William Burns to be his CIA director. A former ambassador to Russia and Jordan, Burns, 64, had a 33-year career at the State Department under both Republican and Democratic presidents.

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Barr says Trump conduct amid US Capitol violence 'betrayal' of presidency

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