Month: January 2021

Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, the party’s third-ranking House leader, announced on Tuesday that she will vote to impeach President Donald Trump, becoming the highest-ranking official from her party to support charging and removing him from office following the Trump-incited riot at the Capitol last week. In a statement, Cheney, a staunch conservative, said Trump

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo canceled a trip to Europe this week after being snubbed by officials in Luxembourg in the wake of the deadly assault on the US Capitol, according to two State Department officials familiar with the planning. The intended stop in Luxembourg had not been publicly disclosed by the State Department, which

Vice President Mike Pence made clear Tuesday night that he has no plans to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Donald Trump from office, in a new letter released just hours ahead of a House vote on a measure urging him to do so. The resolution, brought forward by Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of

President Donald Trump has discussed issuing pardons for himself and his children with new urgency since the attack on the US Capitol, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell CNN. One source familiar with the conversations says there is a belief that a Trump “pardon of family and kids, is more likely and more urgent

President-elect Joe Biden is on course to lag behind his recent predecessors who had Cabinet nominees confirmed on the day of inauguration, causing concern that Biden’s administration could be hampered in its early efforts to face immediate security, health and economic challenges. Biden’s transition team is beginning a new messaging push to urge Republican senators

Numerous law enforcement officers stood guard at Texas’ Capitol building in Austin and about a dozen demonstrators gathered outside as the legislative session began Tuesday. The large police presence came as an FBI internal bulletin warned “armed protests” were being planned at all 50 state capitols and the US Capitol in Washington, DC, in the

The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted the Trump administration’s request to reinstate long-standing restrictions for patients seeking to obtain a drug used for abortions early in pregnancy — with the three liberals dissenting in a potential preview of a new chapter in the court’s rulings on the procedure. The order’s timing was a surprise, coming

Members of Congress and staffers will have to walk through metal detectors in order to get onto the floor of the US House of Representatives, a senior Democratic aide told CNN Tuesday. The development comes after multiple House Democrats told CNN they are worried about some of their Republican colleagues and that there have been

The House of Representatives is expected to vote Tuesday on a measure calling for President Donald Trump to be removed from office through the 25th Amendment in the wake of the violent siege of the US Capitol last week, though Vice President Mike Pence made clear that he has no plans to comply with the

The US Justice Department detailed for the first time on Tuesday the scale of its investigation into last week’s US Capitol breach as officials vowed to hold all participants that broke the law accountable. The acting US attorney in Washington, DC, Michael Sherwin, told reporters that the agency is at the onset of “a long