Rep. John Katko, R-N.Y., leaves the House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on Wednesday, June 10, 2015. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) WASHINGTON - Amid an apparent rift in the Republican Party in the wake of a pro-Trump riot inside the U.S.

Capitol, Rep. John Katko, R-N.Y., and Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., said they will vote for the impeachment of President Donald Trump."To allow the President of the United States to incite this attack without consequence is a direct threat to the future of democracy, " Katko said in a statement Tuesday. "For that reason, I cannot sit by without taking action.

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Twitch bans Trump ‘indefinitely,’ cites ‘ongoing risk of further incitement of violence’

FILE - In this photo illustration a Twitch logo seen displayed on a smartphone. Twitch, a popular streaming platform, said Wednesday it would be disabling President Donald Trump’s account "indefinitely."Mimicking other social media giants like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, Twitch originally banned Trump’s channel on Jan 7 in the hours after the Capitol riot."In light of yesterday’s shocking attack on the Capitol, we have disabled President Trump’s Twitch channel.

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China sanctions 28 members of Trump administration including Pompeo, Bannon

China has announced sanctions against 28 members of the Trump administration, including former U.S. secretary of state Mike Pompeo and former chief strategist Steve Bannon.They, along with any companies and institutions associated with them, are “restricted from doing business with China,” and their immediate family members will be prohibited from entering China’s mainland, Hong Kong and Macau, the Chinese government said in a release.

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Georgia lawmaker introduces legislation banning Trump from US Capitol

Congresswoman Nikema Williams addresses the Georgia Democratic Electors before casting their Electoral College votes at the Georgia State Capitol (Photo by Jessica McGowan/Getty Images) WASHINGTON, D.C. - A Georgia congresswoman has introduced a resolution that would ban President Donald Trump from the U.S. Capitol after his term ends.Nikema Williams, who represents Georgia's 5th District, introduced the legislation last week after the Jan.

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‘Honour of a lifetime’: Trump leaves White House for last time ahead of Biden inauguration

Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania left the White House for the final time during his presidency on Wednesday morning.

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Lil Wayne, Kodak Black get clemency; Joe Exotic does not

Two rappers were among the entertainment figures included in a list of 140 people who were pardoned or had their sentences commuted by President Donald Trump in a last-minute clemency flurry early Wednesday. But the news was not as good for one hopeful celebrity.— Rapper Lil Wayne, whose real name is Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., was given a full pardon.

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Networks stick with Trump in his unusual goodbye speech

NEW YORK – At the end of Donald Trump's presidency, television networks left the mute button unused.They covered Trump's farewell address at Joint Base Andrews, the opening event of a most unusual inauguration day, from beginning to end without pulling away — a possibility that MSNBC's Joe Scarborough raised as the outgoing president began to talk.“We're going to dip into this for as long as the president manages to tell the truth,” Scarborough said.His network, along with ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News and NBC, did not pull away. Trump bragged about his election vote totals but dropped the persistent claim that he had really won.

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No-go for Joe Exotic: Trump pardon list omits 'Tiger King'

OKLAHOMA CITY – One name missing in President Donald Trump's flurry of pardons is “Tiger King” Joe Exotic.His team was so confident in a pardon that they'd readied a celebratory limousine and a hair and wardrobe team to whisk away the zookeeper-turned-reality-TV-star, who is now serving a 22-year federal prison sentence in Texas. But he wasn't on the list announced Wednesday morning.Joe Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, was sentenced in January 2020 to 22 years in federal prison for violating federal wildlife laws and for his role in a failed murder-for-hire plot targeting his chief rival, Carole Baskin, who runs a rescue sanctuary for big cats in Florida.

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No-go for Joe Exotic: Trump pardon list omits ‘Tiger King’

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Trump prepares to depart White House in final hours of presidency

WASHINGTON (AP) - Donald Trump will walk out of the White House and board Marine One for the last time as president Wednesday morning, leaving behind a legacy of chaos and tumult and a nation bitterly divided.Four years after standing on stage at his own inauguration and painting a dire picture of "American carnage," Trump departs the office twice impeached, with millions more out of work and 400,000 dead from the coronavirus. Republicans under his watch lost the presidency and both chambers of Congress.

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‘Tiger King’ star Joe Exotic fails to get pardon from Donald Trump

A legal team defending Joe Exotic is asking President Donald Trump to pardon the infamous Tiger King.

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Lil Wayne, Steve Bannon among 143 more pardons Trump issues on final day in office

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump pardoned 143 more people Tuesday, his final full day in office. The latest round of pardons includes rapper Lil Wayne and former Trump associate Steve Bannon.Lil Wayne, whose real name is Dwayne Carter, pleaded guilty in 2020 in federal district court to illegally possessing a loaded, gold-plated .45-caliber handgun while traveling to Florida on a private jet in 2019.

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Trump frees former aides from ethics pledge, lobbying ban

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has released current and former members of his administration from the terms of their ethics pledge, which included a five-year ban on lobbying their former agencies.The ethics pledge was outlined in one of Trump’s first executive orders, signed on Jan. 28, 2017, as part of his campaign pledge to “drain the swamp.” It required Trump’s political appointees to agree to the lobbying ban, as well as pledge not to undertake work that would require them to register as a “foreign agent” after leaving government.Trump signed the one-page revocation of the order on Tuesday, and it was released by the White House shortly after 1 am Wednesday, hours before his term ends.

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On Day One, Biden to undo Trump policies on climate, virus

WASHINGTON – In his first hours as president, Joe Biden will aim to strike at the heart of President Donald Trump’s policy legacy, signing a series of executive actions that reverse his predecessor’s orders on immigration, climate change and handling of the pandemic.Biden on Wednesday will end construction on Trump’s border wall, end the ban on travel from some Muslim-majority countries, rejoin the Paris Climate Accord and the World Health Organization, and revoke the approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, aides said Tuesday. The new president will sign the orders almost immediately after taking the oath of office at the Capitol, pivoting quickly from his pared-down inauguration ceremony to enacting his agenda.

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Trump alludes to social media ban during farewell address

In a farewell address released Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump alluded to his recent ouster from most social media platforms when he devoted a portion of his speech to a warning about putting limits on free speech.

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Fact check: A look at the claims Trump made in his farewell address

Donald Trump claimed credit for things he didn’t do and twisted his record on jobs, taxes, the pandemic and much more. Falsehoods suffused his farewell remarks to the country.As well, in noting Americans were “horrified” by the storming of the Capitol this month, he brushed past the encouragement he had given to the mob in advance and his praise of the attackers as “very special” people while they were still ransacking the seat of power.

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How Donald Trump plans to spend his final hours as U.S. president

Donald Trump will spend his final hours in office escaping Washington, D.C.Instead of attending President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration Wednesday afternoon and leading the peaceful transition of power, Trump will hold his own send-off event at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland early in the morning.By the time Biden is sworn in as the 46th president, Trump will be permanently moving into his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., his regular home away from home while he served in the White House. Trump touts administration’s accomplishments, wishes Biden ‘luck’ in farewell address Trump is the fourth president in U.S.

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Trump pardons Steve Bannon, reversing course hours before presidency ends: reports

Donald Trump has pardoned his former strategist and far-right figurehead Steve Bannon, according to multiple reports.Trump’s decision to grant clemency to Bannon, reported earlier Tuesday night by CNN, Bloomberg and Reuters, came after earlier reports that he had been talked out of it by his aides. Yet even those reports admitted the question was still open throughout the day, with Trump continuing to bring up the possibility.Reports of Trump’s decision warned it wasn’t final until Trump signed the paperwork, which the New York Times, the Washington Post and Reuters confirmed happened just before midnight Tuesday.

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U.S. Capitol rioters hoping for last-minute Trump pardons ahead of Biden’s inauguration

U.S. Capitol are holding out hope that President Donald Trump will use some of his last hours in office to grant the rioters a full pardon.Longtime advisers to Trump are urging him against such a move but the rioters contend their argument is compelling: They went to the Capitol to support Trump, and now that they are facing charges carrying up to 20 years in prison, it’s time for Trump to support them.

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Trump touts administration’s accomplishments, wishes Biden ‘luck’ in farewell address

Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump touted his administration’s accomplishments and wished incoming President-elect Joe Biden “luck” in a farewell address released Tuesday.

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Biden charts new US direction, promises many Trump reversals

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Trump's exit: President leaves office with legacy of chaos

WASHINGTON – Donald Trump will walk out of the White House and board Marine One for the last time as president Wednesday morning, leaving behind a legacy of chaos and tumult and a nation bitterly divided.Four years after standing on stage at his own inauguration and painting a dire picture of “American carnage," Trump departs the office twice impeached, with millions more out of work and 400,000 dead from the coronavirus. Republicans under his watch lost the presidency and both chambers of Congress.

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Trump expected to pardon former strategist Steve Bannon

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is expected to pardon his former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, as part of a flurry of clemency action that appeared to be still in flux in the final hours of his presidency, according to a person familiar with his thinking. The person, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations, stressed that Trump has flip-flopped repeatedly as he mulls his final actions, and warned the decision could be reversed until it's formally unveiled.The last-minute clemency would follow separate waves of pardons over the last month for Trump associates convicted in the FBI’s Russia investigation as well as the father of his son-in-law.

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Vice President Mike Pence will not attend Trump's sendoff event, will attend Biden's inauguration

WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Mike Pence is among those who will not be attending President Donald Trump’s sendoff event at Joint Base Andrews.A person familiar with Pence’s schedule cited "logistical challenges" in getting from the air base to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration ceremonies on Wednesday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss scheduling decisions.Much of Washington, D.C., is under lockdown, with thousands of National Guard troops on patrol and other security precautions in place.

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Anyone else would have taken '10 years' to make the Covid vaccine, Trump claims

Donald Trump boasted that a Covid vaccine could have taken 10 years under a different administration instead of just nine months, in an extraordinary farewell speech.

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Trump departs, trailed by pandemic and joblessness

Donald Trump departs Washington on Wednesday with Americans more politically divided and more likely to be out of work than when he arrived, while awaiting trial for his second impeachment—an ignominious end to one of the most turbulent presidencies in American history.Trump intends to leave in the morning for his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, arriving before President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated. There, the ex-president will begin his post-presidency life attended at least temporarily by a handful of former White House staffers.The last president who chose not to attend his successor’s inauguration was Andrew Johnson in 1869, another impeached leader.

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Trump’s presidency ends with turmoil and apprehension

After four years of lies, divisive rhetoric, controversial policies, and the COVID-19 crisis, President Donald Trump is just hours away from leaving the Oval Office.

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‘Tiger King’ star Joe Exotic books limousine ahead of expected pardon from Donald Trump

FORT WORTH, Texas - Joseph Maldonado-Passage, aka Joe Exotic, is expecting a presidential pardon from Donald Trump.Exotic was made famous last year by the Tiger King miniseries on Netflix and has been very public in his seeking of a pardon.SKY4 spotted the limo he booked to pick himself up from a prison in Tarrant County parked outside of his attorney's office on Tuesday afternoon in Fort Worth.

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EXPLAINER: Can Trump be impeached after leaving office?

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump might argue the calendar is his friend when it comes to a second impeachment trial.Trump's impeachment last week by the House of Representatives for his role in inciting the riot at the U.S. Capitol set up his trial in the Senate.

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U.S. Capitol riot: Mitch McConnell says Trump ‘provoked’ deadly riots

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, said in a speech on the Senate floor on Tuesday that President Donald Trump “provoked” the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.

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‘Shameful’: U.S. coronavirus deaths surpass 400K as Trump leaves office

Donald Trump entered the final year of his term last January, the U.S. recorded its first confirmed case of COVID-19.

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‘The mob was fed lies’: McConnell says Trump ‘provoked’ U.S. Capitol rioters

Mitch McConnell opened the Senate on Tuesday saying the pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol was “fed lies” by the president and others in the deadly riot to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s election.McConnell’s remarks are his most severe and public rebuke of outgoing President Donald Trump. The Republican leader vowed a “safe and successful” inauguration of Biden on Wednesday at the Capitol, which is under extremely tight security.“The mob was fed lies,” McConnell said.

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‘We did what we came here to do’: Trump bids farewell to White House in video

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump wrapped up his term at the White House with a farewell video on his final day in office Tuesday, acknowledging the incoming Biden administration, touting his administration’s accomplishments, and condemning violence in the wake of the pro-Trump riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan.

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Federal court strikes down Trump rule easing power plant pollution regulations

WASHINGTON - In a last-minute slap at President Donald Trump, a federal appeals court struck down one of his administration’s most momentous climate rollbacks on Tuesday, saying officials acted illegally in issuing a new rule that eased federal regulation of air pollution from power plants.The Trump administration rule was based on a "mistaken reading of the Clean Air Act," the U.S.

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Tiffany Trump announces engagement on her father's final day in White House

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump's youngest daughter, Tiffany, is engaged to be married.The 27-year-old recent Georgetown law school graduate announced her good news on Instagram on Tuesday, her father's final full day in office. She shared a photograph of herself and fiance Michael Boulos posing on the West Wing colonnade at the White House."It has been an honor to celebrate many milestones, historic occasions and create memories with my family here at the White House, none more special than my engagement to my amazing fiance Michael!" Tiffany Trump wrote.

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'Shameful': US virus deaths top 400K as Trump leaves office

As President Donald Trump entered the final year of his term last January, the U.S. recorded its first confirmed case of COVID-19.

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Tiffany Trump announces engagement on dad's final full day

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump's youngest daughter, Tiffany, is engaged to be married. The 27-year-old recent Georgetown law school graduate announced her good news on Instagram on Tuesday, her father's final full day in office.

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McConnell to Senate: Mob that attacked Capitol was 'fed lies' and 'provoked' by Trump

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 15: UU.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks at a news conference with other Senate Republicans at the U.S.

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Trump's trial, Biden's Cabinet picks await Senate post-siege

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump's last full day in office Tuesday is also senators’ first day back since the deadly Capitol siege, an unparalleled time of transition as the Senate presses ahead to his impeachment trial and starts confirmation hearings on President-elect Joe Biden's Cabinet.Three new Democratic senators-elect are set to be sworn into office Wednesday shortly after Biden's inauguration at the Capitol, which is under extreme security since the bloody pro-Trump riot.

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Donald Trump may pardon Lil Wayne — but not Giuliani or Bannon: reports

Donald Trump is likely to grant clemency to rapper Lil Wayne on Tuesday in a final wave of pardons and commutations that is not expected to include lawyer Rudy Giuliani or ex-aide Steve Bannon, sources told Reuters on Monday.The New York Times also reported the news.Trump is expected to issue more than 100 pardons and commutations on his last full day in office. Two sources familiar with the discussions, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Trump appeared to have been dissuaded from pardoning himself or members of his family.

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Biden plans to roll back a lengthy list of Trump policies. Here’s what may happen

Joe Biden plans to sign dozens of executive orders and send sweeping bills to Congress in his first days in office, aiming to roll back some of Donald Trump’s signature policies on immigration and climate change while taking action to ramp up the government’s response to the coronavirus crisis.Here is a list of what to expect, according to interviews with several of Biden’s advisers, a review of campaign promises and a recent memo by the president-elect’s incoming chief of staff Ron Klain.

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Biden team says Trump lift of ban on travel from Brazil, UK, Ireland amid COVID-19 surge in US won’t stand

WASHINGTON - In his final days in office, President Donald Trump issued a new proclamation on Monday lifting coronavirus-related bans on travel from Brazil, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and much of Europe as the U.S.

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Trump 'to lift COVID-19 travel bans on those flying from UK, Brazil and Europe'

Donald Trump will reportedly end a travel ban on non-US.citizens who recently visited the UK, Brazil and much of Europe.

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Trump expected to lift coronavirus travel restrictions on Europe, Brazil: sources

Donald Trump on Monday rescinded entry bans imposed because of the coronavirus on most non-U.S. citizens arriving from Brazil and much of Europe effective Jan.

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Moving trucks spotted at President Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort

PALM BEACH, Fla. - Moving trucks were spotted Monday outside of President Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in South Florida as he is expected to move in on the day of President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration.A person familiar with President Donald Trump's planning said that he will leave Washington D.C. on the morning of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. President Trump previously said that he would not be attending Biden’s inauguration, breaking tradition.

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Giuliani says he’s a ‘witness,’ can’t defend Trump at impeachment trial

Rudy Giuliani, who called for a “trial by combat” before U.S. President Donald Trump incited an attack on the U.S.

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Auction to push button imploding former Trump casino in Atlantic City called off

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - A fundraising auction that would have granted someone the opportunity to press the button that will bring down one of President Donald Trump's former Atlantic City casinos has been scrapped.The demolition of the former Trump Plaza casino recently became a fundraiser to benefit the Boy's & Girls Club of Atlantic City. Mayor Marty Small had hoped the fundraiser would raise more than $1 million.Bodnars Auction announced the cancellation on their website and explained it was canceled after they received a cease and desist from IEP AC Plaza LLC, had previously said they were not on board with the auction, citing safety issues.

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Trump baby protest blimp enters Museum of London collection

LONDON – The Trump Baby Blimp will live on long after its namesake has left the White House.The Museum of London said Monday that it had added the giant balloon, which depicts Donald Trump as a screaming orange baby, to its collection as an illustration of the protests that greeted the U.S.

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Trump supporters, some armed, gather outside U.S. state capitol buildings

Supporters of President Donald Trump gathered outside several state capitol buildings in various U.S. states on Sunday, some of whom were armed, but despite FBI warnings of potential violence leading up to inauguration day, most of the demonstrations remained calm with some groups leaving in various states after a few hours.

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

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