NORTH & SOUTH AMERICA

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Republicans block measure calling for quick removal of Trump: AP report

10:14 pm January 11, 2021

Washington: A House resolution calling on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke constitutional authority to remove President Donald Trump from office was blocked Monday by Republicans. Here’s the prior report.. As the House prepares for impeachment, President Donald Trump faces a single charge — “incitement of insurrection” — over the deadly riot at the U.S. […]

Donald Trump set to return to the spotlight with CPAC speech

Toomey is 2nd GOP senator to urge Trump to quit

9:40 pm January 10, 2021

Washington: A second Republican senator has called for President Donald Trump to step down in the wake of the Capitol rioting this past week. This time it’s Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania. He’s calling on Trump to resign for what Toomey says would be the good of the country after the Capitol riot that was carried out by supporters of the […]

Police: Man shoots 7 in series of Chicago-area attacks

9:33 pm January 10, 2021

Chicago : Aman killed three people and wounded four others in a series of shootings that started on Chicago’s South Side and ended with his death in a shootout with police in a parking lot just north of the city. Investigators are trying to determine a motive for the attacks, which began Saturday afternoon with the killing […]

What Biden”s Cabinet picks say about how he plans to govern

9:25 pm January 10, 2021

Washington: Joe Biden promised that his presidency would mean a return to normalcy. His Cabinet picks help demonstrate how he plans to deliver. The president-elect announced his final nominees this past week, completing a diverse team of two dozen people. He noted Friday that this will be the “first Cabinet ever” to reach gender parity and include a majority of people […]

‘Clear the Capitol,’ Mike Pence pleaded, timeline of riot shows

Whither democracy? Trump puts democracy at peril

6:32 pm January 10, 2021

Aditya Vikram Singh/New Delhi: The recent shootout at Capitol Hill in Washington DC by angry supporters of the outgoing US President Donald Trump, that claimed four lives including a woman who was an American Air Force veteran, is not just shell-shocking but has also confounded the whole world, particularly the democracies across the globe, and […]