Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer has joined the list of politicians calling for Donald Trump to be removed following yesterday’s violence on Capitol Hill. Urging Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th amendment to oust him from office, the New York senator said: ‘This president should not hold office one day longer.’ He added: […]
Donald Trump has been blocked from Facebook and Instagram indefinitely, Mark Zuckerberg has announced. In a statement, the Facebook founder said: ‘The shocking events of the last 24 hours clearly demonstrate that President Donald Trump intends to use his remaining time in office to undermine the peaceful and lawful transition of power to his elected […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The first round of President Donald Trump’s supporters who stormed the US Capitol in a brazen attack on the seat of government were due in court to face charges on Thursday (Jan 7) as police stepped up their search for perpetrators of violence. In a late-night news conference, Metropolitan Police Department Chief Robert […]
DURHAM, N.H. — New Hampshire’s House of Representatives convened on Wednesday morning in a parking lot, whipped by an icy wind and drowned out by occasional passing freight trains, in a legislative improvisation worthy of Rube Goldberg. This was drive-in democracy: Three hundred and fifty-seven state representatives sat in idling cars, tuning into a shared […]
The order to deploy the National Guard to a violent mob who stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday reportedly came from Vice President Mike Pence, not Donald Trump. Four people have been confirmed dead following the riots aimed at overturning the election result, including a woman who was fatally shot by police. Ashli Babbit, a […]
The family of a 12 year-old black boy shot dead by police want help from Joe Biden after US government prosecutors refused to charge the officers involved. Tamir Rice’s mother told of her outrage as the US DoJ – which has the authority to prosecute – said there was insufficient evidence to move forward with […]
Donald Trump said there will be an ‘orderly transition’ of power after Congress concluded the electoral vote count certifying Joe Biden’s victory. It comes after the outgoing Republican refused to condemn the violent mob who stormed the US capitol on Wednesday, during which four people were killed. In a statement, Trump said he did not […]
The US is making plans to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove the president from office, sources say. Donald Trump’s Cabinet secretaries are said to be discussing the move, after several politicians and public bodies claimed the president’s behaviour prior to the violence in the Capitol justifies his removal. CBS News correspondent Margaret Brennan said […]
WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – Smashed cameras. Threats. The words “Murder the Media” scratched into a door of the Capitol. As Trump supporters rampaged on Wednesday (Jan 6), incited by the president’s false claims of a stolen election, they hit on a secondary target: journalists. Members of the news media who were reporting from the streets and […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The storming of the US Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump on Wednesday has prompted calls by some lawmakers to remove him from office before President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in on Jan 20. The chaotic scenes unfolded after Republican Trump, who has refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of […]