WASHINGTON (US) – It appears that the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump could wind up on Saturday and it would be left to the deeply divided Senate to decide if he incited followers to attack the US Capitol on January 6. Trump is the first U.S. president to be
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WASHINGTON (US) – In what is seen as a revival of the Obama-era goal of closing Guantanamo prison, President Joe Biden’s aides have begun a formal review of the military facility in Cuba. He aims to do so before leaving office, said the White House on Friday. An executive decision could be inked by Biden […]
WASHINGTON/LONDON (US/UK) – The administration of President Joe Biden told allies on Friday that the US was re-engaging with them in a bid to help steer the global economy out of its worst slump since the Great Depression. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told compatriots from the G7 that the US was committed to multilateralism and […]
WASHINGTON (US) – As the Senate is hurrying towards a final vote regarding the impeachment trial of Donald Trump, the former president’s defense lawyers will make their case on Friday as to why he is not guilty of inciting the deadly riot at the US Capitol last month. His lawyer David Schoen said the defense […]
WASHINGTON (US) – Several Republican senators found graphic videos of the attack on the US Capitol upsetting. But they hinted that they would not lead to the conviction of former President Donald Trump over inciting violence. The House of Representatives’ Democrats prosecuting Trump in his second impeachment trial on Wednesday leaned heavily on the threat […]
TEXAS (US) – Judge Roy Ferguson of the 394th Judicial District Court in Texas got a surprise on Zoom on Tuesday. He did not expect to see two lawyers and a kitten as well on the screen. It was actually county attorney Rod Ponton covered by a filter who appeared as a cat in the […]
WASHINGTON (US) – Donald Trump’s historic second impeachment trial, on a charge of inciting last month’s deadly storming of the US Capitol, opens on Tuesday with a debate over the constitutionality of trying a president after he has left office. Hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on January 6 after a fiery speech in […]
WASHINGTON (US) – Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial, on a charge of inciting the deadly attack on the US Capitol, is to begin on Tuesday with a debate on whether the proceedings are unconstitutional because he is no longer president, a source said. The trial on a charge of inciting insurrection in a fiery speech […]
WILMINGTON (US) – President Joe Biden, who fractured his right foot when he was playing with one of his dogs in November, has recovered from the injury and will return to his usual exercise regimen, said his physician on Saturday. Dr Kevin O’Connor. Biden’s fractures were reported to be relatively mild, as determined from the […]
WASHINGTON (US) – The Biden administration said on Saturday it was immediately suspending Trump-era asylum agreements with El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, as part of its attempts to reverse his Republican predecessor’s hardline immigration policies. In a statement, State Department Secretary Antony Blinken said the United States had “suspended and