Donald Trump‘s impeachment trial is likely to start after Joe Biden‘s inauguration, and the Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, is telling senators their decision on whether to convict the outgoing president over the Capitol riot will be a “vote of conscience.”The timing for the trial, the first of a president no longer in office, has not yet been set.

But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made it clear Friday that Democrats intend to move swiftly on President-elect Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID aid and economic recovery package to speed up vaccinations and send Americans relief.

Biden is set to take the oath of office Wednesday. Donald Trump impeached for the 2nd time Pelosi called the recovery package a “matter of complete urgency.”The.

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House to send Trump impeachment charge to Senate Monday, GOP opposes trial

WASHINGTON - As the House prepares to bring the impeachment charge against Donald Trump to the Senate for trial, a growing number of Republican senators say they are opposed to the proceeding, dimming the chances that the former president will be convicted on the charge that he incited a siege of the U.S. Capitol.House Democrats will carry the sole impeachment charge of "incitement of insurrection" across the Capitol late Monday evening, a rare and ceremonial walk to the Senate by the prosecutors who will argue their case.

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Schumer outlines Senate agenda, says Trump impeachment trial will be fair but move quickly

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced on Sunday a Senate agenda plan for the next three weeks, which he said concerns former president Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, advancing the COVID-19 relief bill and Biden administration cabinet nominations.

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‘It’s counterproductive’: Growing list of GOP senators oppose Trump impeachment trial

Donald Trump will be convicted on the charge that he incited a siege of the U.S. Capitol.House Democrats, who will walk the impeachment charge of “incitement of insurrection” to the Senate on Monday evening, are hoping that strong Republican denunciations of Trump after the Jan.

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House sending Trump impeachment to Senate, GOP opposes trial

WASHINGTON – As the House prepares to bring the impeachment charge against Donald Trump to the Senate for trial, a growing number of Republican senators say they are opposed to the proceeding, dimming the chances that former president will be convicted on the charge that he incited a siege of the U.S. Capitol.

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AP source: Biden to drop Trump's military transgender ban

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden is set to issue an executive order to reverse a Pentagon policy that largely bars transgender individuals from joining the military, dumping a ban ordered by President Donald Trump in a tweet during his first year in office, a person briefed on the decision tells The Associated Press.Biden has been widely expected to overturn the Trump policy in his early days in office. The White House could announce the move as early as Monday, according to the person briefed on the decision who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the order.The move to reverse the policy has the support of Biden's newly confirmed defense secretary, retired Army Gen.

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AP source: Lawmakers threatened ahead of impeachment trial

WASHINGTON – Federal law enforcement officials are examining a number of threats aimed at members of Congress as the second trial of former President Donald Trump nears, including ominous chatter about killing legislators or attacking them outside of the U.S. Capitol, a U.S.

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Canada didn’t start Keystone XL dispute — the president did, Kenney says in rebuke of Biden

Keystone XL pipeline, going so far as to accuse him of showing “disrespect for America’s closest friend and ally.”In an interview with The West Block’s Mercedes Stephenson, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney criticized newly inaugurated president Joe Biden’s decision to block the US$8-billion cross-border energy project on his first day in office. Trudeau expresses ‘disappointment’ over Keystone XL in 1st phone call with Biden “Look, we didn’t start this dispute,” Kenney said.

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After failed Trump romance, France seeks reset under Biden

PARIS – After increasingly strained U.S.-France relations under Donald Trump, President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed Sunday to work closely together to fight the coronavirus pandemic and climate change.Their first conversation since Biden’s inauguration aimed at mending frayed ties between the historic allies. Biden “stressed his commitment to bolstering the transatlantic relationship” via NATO and the EU.

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Coronavirus: Birx says only 2 people ‘regularly’ wore masks in White House

Dr. Deborah Birx, special advisor to the Center for Global Health, spoke with CBS’ Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation on Sunday about former President Donald Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis in October.

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Some in the White House believed coronavirus was ‘a hoax,’ former Trump advisor says

Donald Trump’s coronavirus task force, she had to grapple with COVID-19 deniers in the White House and that someone gave the president “parallel” streams of data that conflicted with hers.Defending her tenure, Birx told CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday that she was at times censored by the Trump administration but denied ever withholding information.

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Growing number of GOP senators oppose impeachment trial

WASHINGTON – A growing number of Republican senators say they oppose holding an impeachment trial, a sign of the dimming chances that former President Donald Trump will be convicted on the charge that he incited a siege of the U.S. Capitol.

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Coronavirus: Birx claims Trump was being fed ‘parallel set of data’ on COVID-19

Speaking to Margaret Brennan on CBS’ Face the Nation Sunday, Dr. Deborah Birx claimed former president Donald Trump was being fed a “parallel set of data” about the impact of COVID-19 in the U.S.

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US to boost surveillance of new coronavirus variants, CDC head says

Covid-19 vaccines and therapeutics, the new head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.“We are now scaling up both our surveillance of these and our study of these," CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said on “Fox News Sunday." The agency is working with others, including the Defense Department and the Food and Drug Administration, to monitor the variants, she said.Vivek Murthy, President Joe Biden’s nominee for surgeon general, said achieving broad immunity against the coronavirus by the start of the school year in September is “an ambitious goal," and that new strains of the disease will require continued masking, social distancing and better government tracking.“It is going to take a lot of work," Murthy said on ABC’s “This

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Germany buys same antibody treatments used to treat Trump

Germany will become the first European Union country to start using the same experimental antibodies treatment credited with helping Donald Trump recover from Covid-19, health minister Jens Spahn said today.

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Germany first EU nation to use Covid-19 medicines used to treat Donald Trump

European Union country to start using the same experimental antibodies treatment credited with helping Donald Trump recover from Covid-19, health minister Jens Spahn said Sunday."The government has bought 200,000 doses for 400 million euros ($486 million)," Spahn told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper, working out at 2,000 euros per dose.Patients will receive them free of charge, a health ministry spokeswoman told AFP.Two different kinds of so-called monoclonal antibody therapies will be made available to university hospitals from the coming week, with Spahn saying Germany was "the first country in the EU" to deploy them in the fight against the pandemic.Both treatments have been approved for emergency use in the United States but have yet to

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Trump administration had no coronavirus vaccine distribution plan: White House

WASHINGTON : There was no distribution plan for the coronavirus vaccine set up by the Trump administration as the virus raged in the their last months in office, new President Joe Biden's chief of staff, Ron Klain, said on Sunday."The process to distribute the vaccine, particularly outside of nursing homes and hospitals out into the community as a whole, did not really exist when we came into the White House," Klain said on NBC's "Meet the Press." Click here to read the Mint ePaperMint is now on Telegram.

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Fauci says Trump administration’s approach to COVID-19 ‘very likely’ cost lives

WASHINGTON - Dr. Anthony Fauci, the United States’ leading expert on infectious diseases, said a lack of facts and transparency surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic in the Trump administration "very likely" cost lives. On Friday, during an interview with CNN’s John Berman, Fauci was asked if the lack of "candor" and "facts in some cases over the last year cost lives." Fauci responded, "You know, it very likely did."Fauci, who was sidelined by Trump, is now the chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden in an ambitious effort to conquer the virus.

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MyPillow guy eyes Minnesota Governor run, says he has Trump's support

US President Donald Trump listens as Michael J. Lindell, CEO of MyPillow Inc., speaks during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 30, 2020.

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Schumer outlines Trump impeachment trial timeline, says it will begin February

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Friday outlined the timeline for the impeachment trial of former president Donald Trump, stating that it’s expected the trial would begin the week of Feb. 8.

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‘He asked us to’: Trump supporters’ words could be his downfall at impeachment trial

Donald Trump supporters who are accused of participating in the deadly U.S. Capitol riot may end up being used against him in his Senate impeachment trial as he faces the charge of inciting a violent insurrection.At least five supporters facing federal charges have suggested they were taking orders from the then-president when they marched on Capitol Hill on Jan.

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Supporters' words may haunt Trump at impeachment trial

WASHINGTON – The words of Donald Trump supporters who are accused of participating in the deadly U.S. Capitol riot may end up being used against him in his Senate impeachment trial as he faces the charge of inciting a violent insurrection.

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2nd impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump to begin week of Feb. 8, Schumer says

WASHINGTON - Opening arguments in the Senate impeachment trial for Donald Trump over the Capitol riot will begin the week of Feb.

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Trump shuns 'ex-presidents club' — and the feeling is mutual

WASHINGTON – It's a club Donald Trump was never really interested in joining and certainly not so soon: the cadre of former commanders in chief who revere the presidency enough to put aside often bitter political differences and even join together in common cause.Members of the ex-presidents club pose together for pictures. They smile and pat each other on the back while milling around historic events, or sit somberly side by side at VIP funerals.

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Schumer: Trump impeachment trial to begin week of Feb. 8

WASHINGTON – Opening arguments in the Senate impeachment trial for Donald Trump over the Capitol riot will begin the week of Feb. 8, the first time a former president will face such charges after leaving office.

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Biden revokes Trump ban on diversity training that explores systemic racism, privilege

The U.S. Department of Labor building is pictured in Washington on Thursday, April 2, 2020.

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Biden removes Trump’s Diet Coke button as part of Oval Office overhaul

Joe Biden immediately made some changes after moving into the Oval Office on Wednesday, including removing one of ex-president Donald Trump‘s unique creature comforts: the Diet Coke button.The wood-encased, brick-sized button sat on the Resolute desk throughout Trump’s presidency, and would immediately summon a butler with a cold can of Diet Coke at a moment’s notice. Donald Trump reportedly floated notion of his own ‘Patriot Party’ The button was emblematic of the former president’s well-documented love for fast food.

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Georgia congresswoman files Articles of Impeachment against Biden

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Newly-elected Georgia Rep.

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Former U.S. president Donald Trump arrives in Florida after departing the White House

Former U.S. president Donald Trump arrived in West Palm Beach, Fla. Wednesday afternoon after he left the White House. Trump arrived to cheers from supporters as his motorcade arrived at his estate at Mar-a-Lago.

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Trump returns to family business empire hit hard by pandemic

Donald Trump is returning to a family business ravaged by pandemic shutdowns and restrictions, with revenue plunging more than 40 per cent at his Doral golf property, his Washington hotel and both his Scottish resorts over the past year.Trump’s 2020 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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Full on Fauci: Doctor says Biden administration is ‘liberating’

Anthony Fauci is back.In truth, the nation’s leading infectious-diseases expert never really went away. But after enduring nearly a year of darts and undermining comments from former U.S.

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Biden says 'help is on the way' with national COVID-19 strategy

"Help is on the way," said President Joe Biden today as he unveiled his 200-page national COVID-19 strategy and signed 10 executive actions aimed at tackling the pandemic, including ensuring the safe opening of schools, new guidance for foreign travel, and ensuring the National Guard in all 50 states is involved in the pandemic response.

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Coronavirus: Fauci says vaccines work on ‘mutant’ variants, but there is plan to adjust if needed

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top advisor on COVID-19 to U.S.

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Coronavirus: Biden says progress from his COVID-19 plan ‘will take time to measure’

Speaking on Thursday, his first full day in office after being sworn-in as president, Joe Biden outlined the details of his administration’s plan to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, saying progress “will take time to measure.” He said the administration would be transparent about any setbacks it experiences on the path to recovery.

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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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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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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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'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

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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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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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Biden says Trump left 'very generous' letter for him before departing White House

WASHINGTON - President Trump left a note for incoming President Joe Biden before departing the White House, FOX News is told.A source told FOX News the contents of this note are just between Trump and Biden. It’s traditional for outgoing presidents to leave a note for their successor.On Wednesday, Biden confirmed receiving the letter, calling it 'generous.' "The president wrote a very generous letter," Biden told reporters.

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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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Biden to review Trump's downsizing of national monuments

SALT LAKE CITY - President Joe Biden said Wednesday he plans to review the Trump administration's downsizing of two sprawling national monuments in the American Southwest, including one on lands considered sacred to Native Americans who joined environmental groups in suing when the boundaries were redrawn in 2017.The new Democratic president also plans to ask the Department of the Interior to reassess a rule change that allowed commercial fishing at a marine conservation area off the New England coast.

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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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Trump impeachment trial a ‘vote of conscience,’ Mitch McConnell says

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