(CNN) — The Senate votes 57-43 to acquit former President Donald Trump of inciting an insurrection at the US Capitol. Seven Republican senators joined all 50 Democrats in voting to convict the president. Sixty-seven votes were needed to convict.
Continue Reading(CNN) — Joseph R. Biden Jr. has taken the oath of office to become the 46th President of the United States. Click here to watch LIVE inauguration coverage from ABC-7.
Continue Reading(CNN) — Kamala D. Harris has taken the oath of office to become vice president of the United States, becoming the first woman and the first woman of color to hold the office. The former U.S. senator from California is also the first person of South Asian descent elected to the vice presidency. She was
Continue Reading(CNN) — President Donald Trump has decided to pardon his former chief strategist Steve Bannon, in a last-minute decision made only hours before he is scheduled to depart the White House for a final time. Officials cautioned CNN that Trump’s decision was not final until he signed the paperwork. Trump told people that after much
Continue ReadingWILMINGTON, Delaware — A $2,000 stimulus check will be at the heart of a $1.9 trillion Covid relief plan that President-elect Joe Biden is set to unveil Thursday evening. An economic package passed by Congress in December provided for fresh $600 stimulus payments despite calls from politicians on both sides of the aisle for bigger
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(CNN) — The House voted Wednesday to impeach President Donald Trump for a second time in a swift and bipartisan condemnation of the President’s role inciting last week’s riot at the US Capitol. The House voted 232 to 197 to impeach Trump exactly one week after rioters forced lawmakers to flee from the very chamber
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WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has privately acknowledged he believes President Trump has committed impeachable offenses, sources confirmed to ABC News on Tuesday. The New York Times was first to report that McConnell was pleased Democrats were moving to impeach Trump. McConnell is said to have told associates that he thinks
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON, DC — Starting this week and running through at least Inauguration Day, armed protests are being planned at all 50 state capitols and at the U.S. Capitol, according to an internal FBI bulletin obtained by ABC News. “Armed protests are being planned at all 50 state capitols from 16 January through at least 20
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WASHINGTON, DC — Impeachment pressure mounting, the U.S. House worked swiftly Monday to try to oust President Donald Trump from office, pushing the vice president and Cabinet to act first in an extraordinary effort to remove Trump in the final days of his presidency. Trump faces a single charge — “incitement of insurrection” – in
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WASHINGTON, DC — President-elect Joe Biden has decided to nominate federal Judge Merrick Garland as U.S. attorney general, people familiar with the matter said. It’s a long-awaited decision that was moved toward completion Wednesday as it became apparent that Democrats were on the brink of winning control of the U.S. Senate. The announcement of the
Continue Reading(CNN) — President Donald Trump received information earlier this month that China sought to pay non-state actors to attack American forces in Afghanistan, a senior administration official said. The intelligence, which will be declassified by the Trump administration, was provided to the President in his daily brief on December 17, the official said. His national
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EL PASO, Texas — This has been a year like no other. When we look back on 2020 years from now, there is one thing that everyone will agree on: “that was ONE CRAZY YEAR.” For this reason, ABC-7 created an interactive tribute to 2020 and all the craziness that it brought with it. In
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WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Attorney General William Barr said Monday that there is “no reason” to appoint a special counsel to probe potential 2020 election fraud or handle a tax investigation into President-elect Joe Biden’s son Hunter , contradicting ideas proposed by President Donald Trump. “If I thought a special counsel at this stage was
Continue Reading(CNN) — Attorney General William Barr resigned on Monday, ending a tenure in which the President Donald Trump loyalist carried the administration’s “law and order” message but ultimately dealt the most credible blow to Trump’s unfounded claims that the 2020 election was littered with fraud. “Just had a very nice meeting with Attorney General Bill
Continue Reading(CNN) — Attorney General William Barr resigned on Monday, ending a tenure in which the President Donald Trump loyalist carried the administration’s “law and order” message but ultimately dealt the most credible blow to Trump’s unfounded claims that the 2020 election was littered with fraud. “Just had a very nice meeting with Attorney General Bill
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON, DC — In an order late Friday afternoon, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton – and supported by President Donald Trump – seeking to overturn presidential election results in four key battleground states. The high court said the state of Texas lacked standing to file the
Continue Reading(CNN) — The General Services Administration has informed President-elect Joe Biden that the Trump administration is ready to begin the formal transition process, according to a letter from Administrator Emily Murphy sent Monday afternoon and obtained by CNN. The letter is the first step the administration has taken to acknowledge President Donald Trump’s defeat, more
Continue Reading(CNN) — The General Services Administration has informed President-elect Joe Biden that the Trump administration is ready to begin the formal transition process, according to a letter from Administrator Emily Murphy sent Monday afternoon and obtained by CNN. The letter is the first step the administration has taken to acknowledge President Donald Trump’s defeat, more
Continue Reading(CNN) — Donald Trump Jr. , President Donald Trump’s eldest son, has tested positive for the coronavirus, a personal spokesman told CNN on Friday. “Don tested positive at the start of the week and has been quarantining out at his cabin since the result,” the spokesman said. “He’s been completely asymptomatic so far and is
Continue Reading(CNN) — Donald Trump Jr. , President Donald Trump’s eldest son, has tested positive for the coronavirus, a personal spokesman told CNN on Friday. “Don tested positive at the start of the week and has been quarantining out at his cabin since the result,” the spokesman said. “He’s been completely asymptomatic so far and is
Continue Reading(CNN) — President Donald Trump announced on Twitter Monday that he has fired Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, and that Christopher Miller, who serves as director of the National Counterterrorism Center, will become acting secretary “effective immediately. “
Continue Reading(CNN) — America has chosen Democrat Joe Biden as its 46th president, CNN projects, turning to a veteran voice who has projected calm and compassion, promised a more empathetic and scientific approach to the pandemic, and pledged to stabilize American politics after four years of Donald Trump’s White House chaos. Biden, who turns 78 at
Continue Reading(CNN) — More than 100 million Americans have voted nationwide before the polls opened on Election Day, according to a survey of election officials by CNN, Edison Research and Catalist. These votes represent more than 47% of registered voters nationwide. Twenty-one states and Washington, DC, have seen more than half of their registered voters cast ballots
Continue Reading(CNN) — Senate Republicans voted to confirm President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett on Monday, a major victory for the President and his party just days before November 3, that could push the high court in a more conservative direction for generations to come. The vote was 52-48. Republican Sen. Susan
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego on Sunday afternoon ordered a 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew daily due to El Paso’s coronavirus crisis. The curfew will be in effect for both the county and city starting Sunday night and continuing for two weeks. Law enforcement agencies will enforce the curfew
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EL PASO, Texas — The number of active coronavirus cases in El Paso County exceeded 11,000 on Sunday morning for yet another all-time high, with hospitalizations also setting a new record as a result of a recent upswing of 300% in Covid-19 patients. There were three added deaths reported Sunday to raise the pandemic’s death
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — The massive Covid-19 surge in El Paso County went from extremely bad to critically worse on Saturday as all-time highs were shattered for a half-dozen critical markers: New cases, active infections, positivity rate, and hospitalizations – along with ICU and ventilator usage. The health department reported a record 1,216 new cases
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — The social media platform Twitter was experiencing a massive nationwide outage Thursday afternoon. The website DownDetector, which tracks internet service crashes, shows an ongoing huge spike in reported problems across the U.S. with Twitter as of 4 p.m. MT. Many users going to the platform to send a tweet saw a message
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Supreme Court has stopped the once-a-decade head count of every U.S. resident from continuing through the end of October. The high court on Tuesday said the 2020 Census should be stopped for now. The Trump administration argued that the head count needed to end immediately so the U.S. Census Bureau
Continue Reading(CNN) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday, the court announced. She was 87. Ginsburg was appointed in 1993 by President Bill Clinton and in recent years served as the most senior member of the court’s liberal wing consistently delivering progressive votes on the most divisive social issues of the day, including
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