WASHINGTON (AP) - Members of President Donald Trump’s failed presidential campaign played key roles in orchestrating the Washington rally that spawned a deadly assault on the U.S.

Capitol, according to an Associated Press review of records, undercutting claims the event was the brainchild of the president's grassroots supporters.A pro-Trump nonprofit group called Women for America First hosted the "Save America Rally" on Jan.

6 at the Ellipse, an oval-shaped, federally owned patch of land near the White House. But an attachment to the National Park Service public gathering permit granted to the group lists more than half a dozen people in staff positions for the event who just weeks earlier had been paid thousands of dollars by Trump’s 2020.

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Biden cleans house at VOA after revolt over Trump changes

WASHINGTON – The Biden administration has moved quickly to remove a number of senior officials aligned with former President Donald Trump from the Voice of America and the agency that oversees all U.S.-funded international broadcasting.The actions address fears that the U.S. Agency for Global Media was being turned into a pro-Trump propaganda outlet.

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Haddonfield man charged for allegedly storming Capitol

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 6: Protesters take over the Inaugural stage during a protest calling for legislators to overturn the election results in President Donald Trump's favor at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 in Washington, D.C.

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Revenue at Trump hotels, resorts hit hard by pandemic

NEW YORK – Donald Trump is returning to a family business ravaged by pandemic shutdowns and restrictions, with revenue plunging more than 40 percent at his Doral golf property, his Washington hotel and both his Scottish resorts.Trump's financial disclosure released as he left office this week was just the latest bad news for his financial empire after banks, real estate brokerages and golf organizations announced they were cutting ties with his company following the storming of the Capitol this month by his political supporters.

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Oval Office decor gets makeover for new Biden administration

President Joe Biden holds a pen as he prepares to sign a series of orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, after being sworn in at the US Capitol on January 20, 2021.

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Implosion of former Trump Plaza casino pushed to Feb. 17, AC mayor says

The building which formerly housed the Trump Plaza casino is set to be imploded on Feb. 17.

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Most Pennsylvania GOP supported Trump to the end, and still do

HARRISBURG - With Donald Trump out of the White House, Pennsylvania’s Republican Party shows no sign of walking away from a president who lost control of Congress, carried out an unprecedented campaign to overturn an election and is blamed by some in his party for inciting a violent assault on the country’s democracy.Save for two notable exceptions, Pennsylvania’s top Republican politicians stayed loyal to Trump as he tried to undo his loss to Democrat Joe Biden in the battleground state and refused blame for the siege of the U.S.

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On first full day in WH, Joe Biden to sign 10 executive orders to combat Covid

Washington: President Joe Biden will sign 10 executive orders on Thursday to fight the coronavirus pandemic, including directing that disaster funds be used to help reopen schools and requiring that people wear masks on planes and buses, officials said.Biden, a Democrat who took over from Republican President Donald Trump on Wednesday, has promised a fierce fight against the pandemic that killed 400,000 people in the United States under Trump's watch."We’re entering what may be the toughest and deadliest period of the virus and must set aside politics and finally face this pandemic as one nation," the president said in his inauguration speech.One order will require mask-wearing in airports and on certain modes of public transportation,

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'Just move on': Republicans grapple with post-Trump future

For the first time in more than a decade, Republicans are waking up to a Washington where Democrats control the White House and Congress, adjusting to an era of diminished power, deep uncertainty and internal feuding.The shift to minority status is always difficult, prompting debates over who is to blame for losing the last election. But the process is especially intense as Republicans confront profound questions about what the party stands for without Donald Trump in charge.

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Biden revokes Trump report promoting 'patriotic education'

President Joe Biden on Wednesday revoked a recent Trump administration report that aimed to promote “patriotic education” in schools but that historians mocked and rejected as political propaganda.In an executive order signed in his first day in office, Biden disband Donald Trump’s presidential 1776 Commission and withdrew a report it released Monday.

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‘It’s over’: QAnon believers left reeling after Biden replaces Trump

Joe Biden is President of the United States, Donald Trump has retreated to his golf resort in Florida, John F. Kennedy Jr.

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Senate confirms Biden nominee Avril Haines as director of national intelligence

WASHINGTON - The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Avril Haines as director of national intelligence, giving President Joe Biden the first member of his Cabinet and placing the first woman in charge of the nearly two-decade old agency.Haines, a former deputy director of the CIA and deputy national security adviser in the Obama administration, was confirmed with an overwhelming 84-10 vote, signaling a bipartisan desire for confirming Biden's national security nominees and installing strong leadership after four turbulent years for the intelligence community.Former President Donald Trump spent much of his presidency criticizing intelligence officials, doubting them and installing loyalist leaders — retribution for a probe into his ties to Russia

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'Don’t haste ye back': Scotland's leader says 'cheerio' to Trump, congratulates Biden, Harris

EDINBURGH, Scotland - As former President Donald Trump departed the White House Wednesday morning for his new home in Florida, Scotland’s first minister said many people in her country "will be very happy to say ‘cheerio’ to Donald Trump." Speaking ahead of President Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan.

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Trump pardons in California extend to former congressman

LOS ANGELES – When then-Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham admitted in 2005 to accepting $2.4 million in illegal gifts from defense contractors in exchange for government contracts and other favors, it was considered the largest bribery scandal in congressional history.

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Vice President Kamala Harris bids farewell to predecessor Mike Pence in ‘honorary departure’

WASHINGTON - Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, second gentleman Doug Emhoff, stood on the U.S.

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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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LA native Amanda Gorman makes history as youngest known inaugural poet

WASHINGTON - Los Angeles poet Amanda Gorman, 22, shared a powerful message during Joe Biden’s inauguration ceremony on Wednesday. Amanda Gorman, a young poet from Los Angeles, shined during Wednesday's inauguration ceremony.Gorman says she was not given specific instructions on what to write, but was encouraged to emphasize unity and hope over "denigrating anyone" over the departure of President Donald Trump.She gracefully read "The Hill We Climb" which reads in part:"When days comes Where can we ask ourselves Where can we find light in this never-ending shade?The loss we carry A sea we must wadeWe braved the belly of the beast We learned that quiet isn’t always peaceAdvertisementIn the norms and notions of what just isIsn’t always

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Joe Biden to hit reset on nation's fight against COVID-19 on his first day

WASHINGTON : President Joe Biden on Wednesday will immediately reset the nation's response to the COVID-19 crisis when he heads to the Oval Office after being sworn in to lead a country reeling from its worst public health crisis in more than a century.As part of a first sweep of executive actions, Biden will order that all federal employees wear masks and make face coverings mandatory on federal property.

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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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Stage set for Joe Biden’s inauguration as 46th U.S. president

Security is amped up in Washington, D.C. for the scaled-back swearing-in of Joe Biden, as Donald Trump still refuses to admit defeat. Jackson Proskow reports on the on the eve of an unprecedented inauguration.

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WATCH LIVE: Joe Biden presidential inauguration

WASHINGTON – The Latest on Joe Biden's presidential inauguration (all times local):8:15 a.m.Donald Trump has left the White House for the final time as president.Trump emerged from the building Wednesday morning and strode across the South Lawn to board Marine One. He said, “It’s been a great honor, the honor of a lifetime.”Trump now heads to Joint Base Andrews in suburban Maryland, where he’ll have a military sendoff.

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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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Inauguration Day 2021: Biden, Harris set for historic swearing-in

WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris are set to be sworn in on Wednesday as the nation reels from the coronavirus pandemic, soaring unemployment and grave concerns about more political violence.You can watch live coverage from NewsNOW from FOX throughout the day in the video player above. Coverage of the inauguration is set to begin on the West front of the Capitol building at 10 a.m.

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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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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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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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Biden charts new US direction, promises many Trump reversals

WASHINGTON – Stop. Stabilize.

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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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‘Dark times’: Biden, Harris mark country’s coronavirus grief ahead of inauguration day

Joe Biden paused on what might have been his triumphal entrance to Washington Tuesday evening to mark instead the national tragedy of the coronavirus pandemic with a moment of collective grief for Americans lost.His arrival coincided with the awful news that the U.S. death toll had surpassed 400,000 in the worst public health crisis in more than a century — a crisis Biden will now be charged with controlling.“To heal we must remember,” the incoming president told the nation at a sunset ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial.

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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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