WASHINGTON, DC — Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is defending his objection to the Electoral College results as “the right thing to do.” The Texas senator condemned the violence that erupted as supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol in an extraordinary attack over the election outcome. Cruz led the first challenge to
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Shares in Alibaba and Tencent were rocked in Hong Kong on Thursday following reports that they could be the next casualties of President Donald Trump’s scorched earth campaign against Chinese tech. Washington is considering prohibiting Americans from investing in the two companies, the Wall Street Journal and Reuters reported Wednesday, citing people familiar with the
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump said 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 hours after he appeared to excuse the violent occupation of the U.S. Capitol by his supporters. Trump acknowledged defeat in the Nov. 3 election for
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(CNN) — El Capitolio de EE.UU. volvió a quedar asegurado, pero cuatro personas murieron, incluida una mujer que recibió un disparo, después de que partidarios del presidente Donald Trump tomaran uno de los edificios estadounidenses más emblemáticos, sumergiendo la capital de la nación en el caos. Esto después de que Trump instó a sus partidarios
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President Donald Trump publicly acknowledged that he would leave office on January 20 for the first time Thursday, pledging an orderly transfer of power after Congress affirmed President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College win. “Even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election, and the facts bear me out, nevertheless there will be an
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Following a formal affirmation of President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory, President Trump said the decision “represents the end of the greatest first term in presidential history.” “Even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election, and the facts bear me out, nevertheless there will be an orderly transition on
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As the United States reported its highest single day of Covid-19 deaths, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned the overall toll could exceed 430,000 by the end of the month. The US reported 3,865 coronavirus deaths Wednesday, bringing the overall toll to 361,123 people in the US, according to data from Johns
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WASHINGTON, DC — Congress has formally validated Joe Biden’s presidential election victory on a day that saw a time-honored ceremony become a nightmare of unprecedented political terror. The U.S. House and Senate certified the Democrat’s electoral college win early Thursday after a violent throng of pro-Trump rioters spent hours Wednesday running rampant through the Capitol.
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Congress has formally affirmed President-elect Joe Biden’s 2020 victory, completing a final step in the electoral process after a mob incited by President Donald Trump breached the US Capitol on Wednesday and forced lawmakers to evacuate both the House and Senate chambers. Vice President Mike Pence, who presided over the count conducted by a joint
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The United States could and should have done a better job of rolling out coronavirus vaccines, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said Wednesday. Federal officials have been struggling to explain why, when they promised 20 million vaccines would have been given to people by the end of the year, only 5.3
Continue Reading The US Capitol is once again secured but four people are dead — including one woman who was shot — after supporters of President Donald Trump breached one of the most iconic American buildings, engulfing the nation’s capital in chaos after Trump urged his supporters to fight against the ceremonial counting of the electoral votes
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WASHINGTON, DC — El Paso Congresswoman Veronica Escobar was among the lawmakers who sheltered in place as a group of violent protesters forced their way into at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. In an interview with ABC-7 after law enforcement hours later regained control of the Capitol building, Escobar elaborated on what she initially described
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WASHINGTON, DC — While many Americans watched the chaos at the nation’s Capitol unfold from their homes on television or via social media, some El Pasoans were actually there to see it first hand for themselves. Journalist and former ABC-7 reporter Julio Cesar-Chavez was covering the events at the Capitol building for Reuters. As he
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Continue Reading President Donald Trump’s deputy national security adviser Matt Pottinger resigned Wednesday afternoon in response to Trump’s reaction to a mob of his supporters breaching the US Capitol, a person close to Pottinger confirms to CNN. Pottinger told people there was very little for him to consider, the person said. Bloomberg was first to report that
Continue Reading A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. The events on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, will be remembered as an act of domestic terrorism against the United States; as a national tragedy; and as a real-life manifestation of online radicalization.
Continue Reading Wednesday’s assault on the US Capitol by President Donald Trump’s supporters has created a crisis moment for the tech companies that have given him a free platform to incite violence and spread debunked claims of election fraud to his fervent supporters. After hours of silence while their sites were swarmed with images of rioters breaking
Continue Reading President Donald Trump made a large number of false claims in a rambling speech. His allies then made some more in Congress. Both before and after a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on Wednesday, Trump and a group of congressional Republicans repeated some of the same baseless election-related nonsense that has agitated much
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Months after flames and unrest gripped Kenosha, Wisconsin, the decision by county officials to not charge the White police officer who shot Jacob Blake has renewed the city’s communal pain and racial divide. The Kenosha prosecutor’s announcement this week that Rusten Sheskey and other police officers would not face charges in connection with the shooting
Continue Reading The House and Senate recessed after midnight Thursday to consider an objection to Pennsylvania’s electoral votes for President-elect Joe Biden, after overwhelmingly rejecting an attempt to block the presidential election results in Arizona following riots in the US Capitol incited by President Donald Trump. The late-night session was anything but the normal routine for counting
Continue Reading All four living former presidents — Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter — derided the rioters who forced an evacuation of the House and Senate chambers of the US Capitol in strongly worded statements that stressed the need for a peaceful transfer of power. “History will rightly remember today’s violence at
Continue Reading The chaotic US Capitol breach by an angry mob on Wednesday spurred a host of GOP lawmakers to announce they would no longer challenge President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. Sens. Kelly Loeffler of Georgia, Steve Daines of Montana, James Lankford of Oklahoma, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Mike Braun of Indiana and Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, and
Continue Reading The chaotic federal response to the Trump rally Wednesday, which was overwhelmed by rioters who stormed the US Capitol, stood in sharp contrast to the heavily-armed presence of thousands of federal authorities during summer protests in Washington, DC, following the police killing of George Floyd. Mobs broke through police barricades and rampaged through the Capitol,
Continue Reading The House and Senate overwhelmingly rejected an attempt to object to the presidential election results in Arizona after the debate was halted for hours on Wednesday when rioters incited by President Donald Trump breached the Capitol and forced the House and Senate to be evacuated. The Senate voted 93 to 6 to dismiss the objection
Continue Reading Nota del editor: Seth Moulton, demócrata, representa al sexto distrito de Massachusetts en la Cámara de Representantes de EE.UU. Las opiniones expresadas en este artículo pertenecen exclusivamente al autor. Ver más columnas de opinión en CNNe/opinion. (CNN) –– «Si no luchan como si fuera el infierno, no tendrán más un país». Esas fueron las palabras
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WASHINGTON, DC — Four people died as supporters of President Donald Trump violently occupied the U.S. Capitol. D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee said the dead on Wednesday included a woman who was shot by the U.S. Capitol Police, as well as three others who died in “medical emergencies.” Police said both law enforcement and Trump
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WASHINGTON, DC — A woman who was shot in the chest and killed by law enforcement Wednesday during a violent takeover of the U.S. Capitol by pro-Trump rioters was apparently an Air Force veteran from California. Ashli Babbitt had served 14 years in the Air Force “and was a high level security official throughout her
Continue Reading Several of President Donald Trump’s top aides — including national security adviser Robert O’Brien — are considering resigning in the wake of his response to a pro-Trump mob breaching the US Capitol on Wednesday, according to multiple sources familiar with their thinking. O’Brien, deputy national security adviser Matt Pottinger and deputy chief of staff Chris
Continue Reading The Senate overwhelmingly rejected an attempt to object to the presidential election results in Arizona after the debate was halted for hours on Wednesday when rioters incited by President Donald Trump breached the Capitol and forced the House and Senate to be evacuated. The Senate voted 93 to 6 to dismiss the objection raised by
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