WASHINGTON – Dominion Voting Systems filed a defamation lawsuit against lawyer Sidney Powell on Friday, seeking at least $1.3 billion for Powell's “wild accusations” that the company rigged the presidential election for Joe Biden.“Dominion brings this action to set the record straight,” the company said in the suit filed in federal court in Washington.Powell has for weeks claimed without evidence that the election technology vendor, whose vote-counting equipment was used in several states, was part of a scheme to steal the election from President Donald Trump.

Powell has been representing Trump in a series of unsuccessful lawsuits filed to contest the election outcome.She has claimed that the company was created in Venezuela to rig.

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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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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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Timeline of events as pro-Trump rioters cause chaos in U.S. Capitol

A pro-Trump rally turned into an insurrection as thousands stormed the U.S. Capitol to prevent U.S. lawmakers from certifying president-elect Joe Biden’s election victory. Paul Johnson has more on how the day unfolded.

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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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Pelosi names Rep. Madeleine Dean among Trump impeachment managers

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Capitol riot: Officials working to identify those involved in deadly pro-Trump insurrection

WASHINGTON - Prosecutors have brought dozens of cases after the deadly attack at the U.S. Capitol, and they promise more charges are to come as investigators work to identify members of the pro-Trump mob.Investigators are combing through thousands of tips, photos, videos and social media accounts to collect evidence against the attackers who overran the Capitol to stop the certification of Democrat Joe Biden as the next president.Officials predict hundreds of criminal cases will ultimately be filed and said they are considering sedition charges against some of the rioters.FILE - The U.S.

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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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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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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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TSA on 'high alert' at airports nationwide in wake of pro-Trump Capitol riot, upcoming inauguration

WASHINGTON - Security is being increased at Washington, D.C.-area airports following last week's deadly siege of the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob and ahead of President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration.

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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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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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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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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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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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First lady ‘disappointed’ by Trump supporters’ Capitol riot

WILMINGTON, Del. – Melania Trump said Monday that she is “disappointed and disheartened” by the deadly riot at the Capitol last week by supporters of her husband. But in breaking her silence, she also lashed out at people she said have used the tragic event to spread “salacious gossip, unwarranted personal attacks and false and misleading accusations about me."The statement marked the first lady's first public comment in the five days since a violent mob of Trump supporters, angry over Trump's election loss and stirred up by the president himself, stormed the Capitol on Wednesday and temporarily disrupted proceedings certifying that Democrat Joe Biden will be the next president come Jan.

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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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Fervent Trump supporters, QAnon believers fueled U.S. Capitol riot: records

Donald Trump to march on Washington in support of his false claim that the November election was stolen and to stop the congressional certification of Democrat Joe Biden as the victor.“Big protest in D.C. on January 6th,” Trump tweeted a week before Christmas.

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Pelosi says House will impeach Trump, pushes VP to oust him

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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U.S. Capitol riot: Republicans join growing calls for Trump to resign

Prominent Republicans are now joining the over 200 U.S. lawmakers calling for President Donald Trump to immediately resign, after he incited a riot on Capitol Hill.

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Biden faces challenge in guiding American past Trump era

WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden appeared on television last week as a bipartisan group of lawmakers huddled in an undisclosed location to protect them from a violent mob that was ransacking the U.S. Capitol.“The whole room went silent,” Sen.

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PGA votes to cut ties with Trump, won't hold PGA championship at his course in New Jersey next year

KAPALUA, Hawaii - The PGA of America cut ties to President Donald Trump when it voted Sunday to take the PGA Championship event away from his New Jersey golf course next year.The vote comes four days after the Trump-fueled riot at the nation's Capitol as Congress was certifying the election victory of President-elect Joe Biden. This is the second time in just over five years the PGA of America removed one of its events from a Trump course.PGA President Jim Richerson says the board voted to exercise its right to "terminate the agreement" with Trump National in Bedminster, New Jersey."We find ourselves in a political situation not of our making," Seth Waugh, the CEO of the PGA of America, said in a telephone interview.

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PGA Championship leaving Trump National in '22 tournament

KAPALUA, Hawaii – The PGA of America cut ties to President Donald Trump when it voted Sunday to take the PGA Championship event away from his New Jersey golf course next year.The vote comes four days after the Trump-fueled riot at the nation’s Capitol as Congress was certifying the election victory of President-elect Joe Biden. This is the second time in just over five years the PGA of America removed one of its events from a Trump course.PGA President Jim Richerson says the board voted to exercise its right to “terminate the agreement” with Trump National in Bedminster, New Jersey.“We find ourselves in a political situation not of our making,” Seth Waugh, the CEO of the PGA of America, said in a telephone interview.

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Trump to honor Belichick with Presidential Medal of Freedom

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump will present one of the nation's highest civilian honors to Bill Belichick, the football coach of the New England Patriots and the only coach to win six Super Bowl titles.The presentation of the Presidential Medal of Freedom is expected Thursday, a White House official confirmed on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.Trump and Belichick have known each other for several years with Trump before his campaign victory in 2016 reading a letter of praise from Belichick at a New Hampshire rally.

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Speaker Pelosi: House 'will proceed' to impeachment of Trump

WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday the House will proceed with legislation to impeach President Donald Trump, calling him a threat to democracy after the deadly assault on the Capitol.Pelosi made the announcement in a letter to colleagues. She said the House will act with solemnity but also urgency with just days remaining before Trump is to leave office on Jan.

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Trump orders flags to half-staff in honor of 2 fallen Capitol Police officers

US Capitol Flags At Half-Staff For Fallen Capitol Police Officer WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has ordered flags across the county to be flown at half-staff through Wednesday to honor two U.S. Capitol Police Officers who died following Wednesday's violent riots.In a statement, President Trump ordered flags lowered at the White House, and all public buildings and grounds until sunset on Jan.

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Trump remains defiant amid calls to resign

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump enters the last days of his presidency isolated and shunned by former allies and members of his own party as he faces a second impeachment and growing calls for his resignation after his supporters launched an assault on the nation's Capitol in an effort to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power.Cut off from the social media channels that have been the lifeblood of his presidency, Trump will nonetheless try to go on offense in his last 10 days, with no plans of resigning.Instead, Trump is planning to lash out against the companies that have now denied him his Twitter and Facebook bullhorns.

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Trump orders flags lowered to half-staff in honor of 2 fallen Capitol Police officers

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EXPLAINER: Can social media companies boot Trump? Yes

WASHINGTON – Social media companies decided this past week they had finally seen enough from President Donald Trump.Facebook and Instagram suspended Trump at least until Inauguration Day. Twitch and Snapchat also disabled Trump’s accounts.

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US diplomats in extraordinary protest against Trump for riot

WASHINGTON – In a highly unusual move, American diplomats have drafted two cables condemning President Donald Trump’s incitement of the deadly assault on the Capitol and calling for administration officials to support invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him from office. Using what is known as the State Department's “dissent channel,” the career foreign service officers said they fear last Wednesday's siege may badly undermine U.S.

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Trump’s influence will drop ‘dramatically’ after Biden’s inauguration, Bolton says

Joe Biden is sworn in on Jan. 20, his former adviser says.“At noon on the 20th of January, the world changes in immeasurable ways…But one of the ways that it will change is Donald Trump’s influence will drop dramatically,” Former White House national security adviser John Bolton told The West Block‘s Mercedes Stephenson in an interview.

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Twitter permanently suspends Donald Trump’s account

Twitter has taken an unprecedented step by suspending President Donald Trump’s Twitter account permanently. The decision occurred just two days after pro-Trump supporters stormed the U.S.

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Oaths questioned as Trump's backers fight against loss

Joe Biden — accused them of violating their oaths and instead pledging allegiance to Trump.The oaths, which rarely attract much attention, have become a common subject in the final days of the Trump presidency, being invoked by members of both parties as they met Wednesday to affirm Biden's win and a violent mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol.“They also swore on a Bible to uphold the Constitution, and that’s where they really are stepping outside and being in dereliction of duty,” said former New Jersey Gov.

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