COVID-19 relief checks to $2,000, meeting U.S. President Donald Trump’s demand for bigger payments and sending the bill to the GOP-controlled Senate, where the outcome is uncertain.Democrats led passage, 275-134, their majority favouring additional assistance.

They had settled for smaller $600 payments in a compromise with Republicans over the big year-end relief bill Trump reluctantly signed into law.The vote divides Republicans who mostly resist more spending.

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Donald Trump says he won’t attend Joe Biden’s inauguration

Donald Trump said he will not be attending Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20.Trump took to Twitter Friday morning, announcing the news.“To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th,” Trump tweeted.To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.— Donald J.

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Murkowski becomes 1st GOP senator to say Trump should resign

WASHINGTON – Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski said Friday that President Donald Trump should resign, making her the first Republican senator to say he should leave office as backlash grows against his goading of violent supporters who stormed the Capitol.

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Security concerns for Inauguration Day following pro-Trump Capitol riot

WASHINGTON (AP) - The violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol is intensifying scrutiny over security at the upcoming inauguration ceremony for President-elect Joe Biden, which already has been reshaped by the pandemic and President Donald Trump's decision not to attend.Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will take the oath of office from the Capitol's West Front, one of the locations where a mob overpowered police and stormed the building.

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Biden says people responsible for Capitol officer’s death will be held accountable

WILMINGTON, Del. - President-elect Joe Biden expressed his "deep sympathy" to the family of the U.S. Capitol Police officer who died in the violent siege of the building by supporters of President Donald Trump and vowed those responsible will be held accountable."Our sympathies and our concerns go out to his family, and the people responsible should be held accountable — and they will be," Biden said during an event Friday in Wilmington, Delaware, to introduce additional key nominees of his economic and jobs team.U.S.

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Can Trump be charged with inciting a riot? Legal bar is high

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump's top White House lawyer has repeatedly warned the president that he could be held responsible for inciting Wednesday's riot at the Capitol, but the standard for legal liability is high under court decisions reaching back 50 years.The admonitions from presidential counsel Pat Cipollone were delivered in part to prompt Trump to condemn the violence that was carried out in his name and acknowledge that he will leave office in less than two weeks, according to White House aides. They were not authorized to publicly discuss private conversations and spoke on condition of anonymity.

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Pelosi spoke with chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff on preventing Trump from initiating nuclear attack

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Pro-Trump rioter fired after wearing work badge into U.S. Capitol

Trump rioter who joined the mob attack on the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday has been fired after eagle-eyed observers noticed his work badge in footage from the unrest.The man appeared in dozens of photos captured inside the U.S.

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Pelosi aide says laptop stolen from her office during pro-Trump riot at US Capitol

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi heads back to her office after calling for the removal of President Donald Trump from office either by invocation of the 25th Amendment by Vice President Mike Pence and a majority of the Cabinet members or Impeachmen WASHINGTON - Electronics were stolen from prominent lawmakers’ offices during the violent siege of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump, including a laptop from the office of U.S.

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Trump says he will not attend Biden’s inauguration

President Donald Trump arrives to speak to supporters from The Ellipse near the White House on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington, DC.

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Lehigh University rescinds honorary degree granted to President Trump in 1988

President Donald Trump speaks at the "Stop The Steal" Rally on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Trump supporters gathered in the nation's capital today to protest the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory over Presi BETHLEHEM, Pa. - The Lehigh University Board of Trustees has voted to rescind an honorary degree granted to President Donald Trump decades ago.The university announced the decision in a statement on Friday morning.According to the university, the executive committee of the board held a special session on Thursday and voted to rescind the degree granted to Trump in 1988.The decision was affirmed on Friday.On Wednesday, pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S.

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House Democrats considering swift second impeachment of President Trump

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats are discussing Friday whether to move forward with the quick impeachment of President Donald Trump if his Cabinet doesn’t try to remove him first, acting swiftly two days after the U.S. Capitol was ransacked by a pro-Trump mob.House Democrats are set to hold a caucus meeting at noon, the first since Wednesday’s harrowing events at the Capitol, and could take up articles of impeachment against Trump as soon as next week.

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Dominion Voting Systems files $1.3B defamation lawsuit against Trump lawyer Sidney Powell

Attorney Sidney Powell speaks during a news conference with Rudy Giuliani, lawyer for U.S.

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Dominion sues Trump lawyer Sidney Powell for defamation

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.

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UPDATES: House Democrats mull fast-track President Trump impeachment

WASHINGTON – The Latest on the fallout of the storming of the Capitol by a mob of pro-Trump loyalists (all times local):9:10 a.m.House Democratic leaders say the House could take up articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump as soon as next week if Vice President Mike Pence and Trump’s Cabinet don’t act to remove him.Assistant House Speaker Katherine Clark of Massachusetts says the House "can use procedural tools to get articles of impeachment to the House floor quickly,” as early as the coming week, if Pence doesn’t invoke the Constitution’s 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office. Rep.

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House Democrats discussing swift action to impeach Trump

WASHINGTON – Democrats are discussing Friday whether to move forward with the quick impeachment of President Donald Trump if his Cabinet doesn’t try to remove him first, moving swiftly two days after the Capitol was ransacked by a pro-Trump mob.House Democrats are set to hold a caucus meeting at noon, the first since Wednesday’s harrowing events at the Capitol.

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Capitol Police rejected federal help to quell pro-Trump mob

WASHINGTON (AP) - Three days before supporters of President Donald Trump rioted at the Capitol, the Pentagon asked the U.S Capitol Police if it needed National Guard manpower. And as the mob descended on the building Wednesday, Justice Department leaders reached out to offer up FBI agents.

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Trump finally faces reality — amid talk of early ouster

WASHINGTON – With 12 days left in his term, President Donald Trump has finally bent to reality amid growing talk of trying to force him out early, acknowledging he’ll peacefully leave after Congress affirmed his defeat. Trump led off a video from the White House Thursday by condemning the violence carried out in his name a day earlier at the Capitol.

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Will Republican party support Trump? Or oust him?

The Republican party is facing a reckoning, after U.S. President Donald Trump inspired an attempted coup at the Capitol on Wednesday. Now some of Trump’s most loyal allies are no longer standing by his side. Eric Sorensen explains.

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Donald Trump concedes in video condemning rioters at U.S. Capitol

U.S. President Donald Trump conceded the election in a video posted to Twitter that condemned the actions of a pro-Trump mob who stormed the U.S.

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Calls grow to remove Trump from office after Capitol riots

After Wednesday’s riots at the U.S. Capitol, lawmakers are calling for President Donald Trump’s immediate removal from the White House. Jackson Proskow reports on the aftermath of the attempted coup that Trump instigated.

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Here are the White House officials who have resigned after the U.S. Capitol riot

Donald Trump’s cabinet — have resigned after Trump supporters violently stormed the Capitol building Wednesday.The latest to resign was Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who joined outgoing Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao Thursday and others in linking the riot to Trump’s incendiary rhetoric, while also criticizing the president’s initial response to the growing violence.

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US Capitol police officer dies of injuries sustained during pro-Trump riots, officials say

UNITED STATES - JANUARY 6: Trump supporters stand on the U.S. Capitol Police armored vehicle as others take over the steps of the Capitol on Wednesday, Jan.

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Trump drops all lawsuits against Georgia related to 2020 election

ATLANTA - The legal team for President Donald Trump has dropped all litigation against the State of Georgia related to the 2020 Presidential Election, the Secretary of State's Office announced Thursday.According to a news release from the Secretary of State's Office, the president's legal team reported the lawsuits were dropped "due to an out of court settlement agreement." However, Sec.

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Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee introduces Articles of Impeachment against President Trump

FILE: Rep. Shelia Jackson Lee, D-Texas, votes to approve the second article of impeachment as the House Judiciary Committee holds a public hearing to vote on the two articles of impeachment against U.S.

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Mexico leader condemns Facebook, Twitter for blocking Trump

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 08: U.S. President Donald Trump (L) welcomes Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (R) to the White House July 8, 2020 in Washington, DC.

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Trump tweets video message condemning violent mob of his supporters day after they stormed US Capitol

Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the American Airlines Center in Dallas on September 14, 2015. WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump tweeted a video after making no public appearances since a mob of his supporters violently laid siege to the U.S.

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Trump honors golfing greats with award in private ceremony

WASHINGTON – Hall of Fame golfers Annika Sorenstam and Gary Player, along with the late Olympian Babe Didrikson Zaharias, have been presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the White House announced Thursday.The award is one of the nation’s highest civilian honors. President Donald Trump has generally held public ceremonies when presenting the honor, but Thursday’s event was closed to the media.

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VIRUS TODAY: Record US deaths come on day of Capitol attack

registered its highest deaths yet from the coronavirus on the very day the mob attack on the Capitol laid bare some of the same, deep political divisions that have hampered the battle against the pandemic. The virus is surging in virtually every state.

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Pelosi calls for Trump’s removal through 25th Amendment after Capitol chaos

U.S. Capitol, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is calling for President Donald Trump‘s removal from office through the 25th Amendment.Pelosi has called on Vice-President Mike Pence to invoke the amendment, and should he not, Pelosi said her caucus will move forward and seek to impeach the president less than two weeks before his term is set to expire.“Yesterday, the President of the United States incited an armed insurrection against America,” Pelosi told reporters Thursday, adding that Trump committed a “seditious act.”She said she expects a quick decision from Pence on her request, acknowledging that her sentiments are shared by others.

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Biden blames Trump for violence at Capitol that's shaken US

WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday denounced the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol as “domestic terrorists” and he blamed President Donald Trump for the violence that has shaken the nation's capital and beyond.The protest by Trump supporters that breached the security of Congress on Wednesday was “not dissent, was not disorder, was not protest.

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Pelosi urges Pence to invoke 25th Amendment to remove Trump, says House will otherwise act to impeach

WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has joined Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and a growing chorus of lawmakers calling on President Donald Trump’s Cabinet to remove him from office following Wednesday’s violent assault on the Capitol by the president’s supporters."In calling for this seditious act, the president has committed an unspeakable assault on our nation and our people. I join the Senate Democratic leader in calling on the vice president to remove this president by immediately evoking the 25th Amendment," Pelosi said."If the vice president and the cabinet do not act, the Congress may be prepared to move forward with impeachment.

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Schumer urges Pence to invoke 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office

WASHINGTON - Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer is calling on President Donald Trump’s Cabinet to remove him from office following Wednesday’s violent assault on the Capitol by the president’s supporters.In a statement Thursday, Schumer said the attack on the Capitol "was an insurrection against the United States, incited by the president." He added, "This president should not hold office one day longer."Schumer said Vice President Mike Pence and the Cabinet should invoke the 25th Amendment and immediately remove Trump from office.

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

US Attorney General Bill Barr holds a news conference to provide an update on the investigation of the terrorist bombing of Pan Am flight 103 on the 32nd anniversary of the attack, at the Department of Justice Dec. 21, 2020 in Washington, D..C.

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Stunned EU leaders yearn for Biden presidency -- ASAP

BRUSSELS – For European Union nations, Joe Biden's Jan. 20 inauguration as the next U.S.

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Mick Mulvaney says he's resigning from Trump administration after Capitol riot

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump’s former acting White House chief of staff resigned his post as special envoy to Northern Ireland on Thursday, saying "I can’t do it. I can’t stay."Mick Mulvaney joined a growing list of Trump administration officials who are leaving following the violent riot at the Capitol on Wednesday.

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Trump promises 'orderly transition' after Congress certifies Biden's 2020 election

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump for the first time acknowledged his defeat in the Nov. 3 election and announced there would be an "orderly transition on January 20th" after Congress concluded the electoral vote count early Thursday certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.Trump’s acknowledgement came after a day of chaos and destruction on Capitol Hill as a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol building and unleashed unprecedented scenes of mayhem as it tried to halt the peaceful transition of power.

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Biden win confirmed after pro-Trump mob storms US Capitol

WASHINGTON – Congress confirmed Democrat Joe Biden as the presidential election winner early Thursday after a violent mob loyal to President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol in a stunning attempt to overturn America’s presidential election, undercut the nation’s democracy and keep Trump in the White House.Lawmakers were resolved to complete the Electoral College tally in a display to the country, and the world, of the nation’s enduring commitment to uphold the will of the voters and the peaceful transfer of power.

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Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz defends Trump after storming of Capitol building

After a mob of demonstrators stormed the Capitol building on Wednesday interrupting a joint session of Congress to certify president-elect Joe Biden, Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz defended President Donald Trump, who called for protests to be “peaceful” before they turned violent.

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House, Senate reject Pennsylvania electoral vote objection as count continues after pro-Trump riot

WASHINGTON - Congressional deliberations over challenges to President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory resumed Wednesday evening after coming to an abrupt halt when rioters supporting President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol, marching through the building, breaking windows, entering lawmakers' offices and clashing with police.Follow below for live updates on the situation at the U.S. Capitol. Mobile users, click here.There, the Congress resoundingly rejected challenges to Biden’s election win in Arizona, voting to certify the state’s electoral votes.The objection to the results in Arizona — spearheaded by Rep.

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Melania Trump’s chief of staff resigns after violent protest at U.S. Capitol

Melania Trump‘s chief of staff, Stephanie Grisham, has resigned from her post.Grisham confirmed the news in a post on Twitter, saying it has “been an honor to serve the country in the @WhiteHouse.” U.S. lawmakers resume election count after Capitol stormed by Trump supporters “I am very proud to have been a part of the @Flotus @MELANIATRUMP mission to help children everywhere, & proud of the many accomplishments of this administration,” she wrote.Before working for the first lady, Grisham served as the White House press secretary.

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Growing calls to remove Trump from office under 25th Amendment after U.S. Capitol riot

Donald Trump from office after his supporters violently stormed the U.S. Capitol Wednesday, according to multiple reports.CNN, CBS News and ABC News, among others, have confirmed with White House sources that some members of Trump’s cabinet are discussing whether to make the move.

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Senate rejects Pennsylvania electoral vote objection as count continues after pro-Trump riot inside Capitol

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Georgia, Michigan objections withdrawn as Congress proceeds with count after pro-Trump riot inside Capitol

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Senate rejects GOP challenge to Arizona electoral votes after pro-Trump riot inside Capitol

WASHINGTON - Congressional deliberations over challenges to President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory resumed Wednesday evening after coming to an abrupt halt when rioters supporting President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol, marching through the building, breaking windows, entering lawmakers' offices and clashing with police.Follow below for live updates on the situation at the U.S. Capitol. Mobile users, click here.There, the Senate resoundingly rejected challenges to Biden’s election win in Arizona, voting to certify the state’s electoral votes.The objection to the results in Arizona -- spearheaded by Rep.

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17 members of Congress sign letter to Pence asking him to invoke 25th Amendment to remove Trump

WASHINGTON - Seventeen members of Congress signed a letter to Vice President Mike Pence urging him to invoke the 25th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to remove President Donald Trump from office in the wake of protests in Washington by Trump’s supporters that devolved into a violent riot inside the U.S.

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Small pro-Trump rallies break out in Canada amid chaos at U.S. Capitol

occupied the U.S. Capitol in an effort to disrupt the certification of president-elect Joe Biden’s electoral victory.In Toronto, more than a dozen vehicles emblazoned with Trump and “stop the steal” flags formed a convoy through the city, driving past the U.S.

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'Disgraceful scenes in US Congress': World leaders express shock at pro-Trump rioters' breach of US Capitol

WASHINGTON - Leaders around the world condemned the storming of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump on Wednesday, expressing shock at the chaos unfolding in a country they once relied upon for global leadership."Disgraceful scenes in US Congress," tweeted Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain, a staunch ally of the United States over generations.

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