The U.S. House of Representatives votes Friday on President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-relief package that aims to provide relief to businesses, governments and millions of Americans whose lives have been upended by the coronavirus crisis. Lawmakers are expected to vote largely along party lines in the Democratic-controlled House. Passage would give Biden his […]
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate on Saturday acquitted former President Donald Trump of inciting insurrection at the U.S. Capitol last month after he urged hundreds of his supporters to confront lawmakers as they were certifying that he had lost last November’s election to Democrat Joe Biden. The Senate voted 57-43 to convict the former U.S. […]
Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky informed colleagues in an email Saturday morning that he will vote to acquit Donald Trump on the charge of inciting a deadly insurrection, despite admitting less than two weeks after the January 6 assault that the former president “provoked” the right-wing mob. McConnell hid behind a procedural justification for his decision, […]
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate voted Saturday morning to subpoena witnesses in the impeachment trial of former president Donald Trump. Five Republican senators voted with all 50 Democrats to hear testimony from witnesses. The vote was a somewhat surprising development, as the Senate was expected to hear closing arguments from each side, and possibly hold […]