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Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, a New Jersey Democrat, said Monday that she has tested positive for Covid-19, and she blamed fellow members of Congress who sheltered in place without masks during the violent attack on the US Capitol last week. “Following the events of Wednesday, including sheltering with several colleagues who refused to wear masks,

Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser on Monday urged Americans to avoid the city during President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration next week and to participate virtually as the city braces for more possible violence following last week’s deadly domestic terror attack on the US Capitol. The request from Bowser, a Democrat, comes as the mayor has asked

Joe Biden will receive the second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine on Monday, according to the President-elect’s transition team. The President-elect’s vaccination will come the week before he is sworn in as the next president of the United States, and as the coronavirus pandemic continues to devastate the nation. More than 374,300 Americans have

“America United” will be the theme for President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, the Presidential Inaugural Committee announced Monday, drawing from a core pillar of his campaign that has now grown more poignant in light of the violent riot on Capitol Hill. The committee also announced that one of Biden’s first acts as President, along with Vice

The US House of Representatives has released its resolution to impeach President Donald Trump, charging him with “incitement of insurrection,” an article for which the House is expected to vote on this week. Read the document: cnn.com/2021/01/11/politics/house-articles-of-impeachment/index.html

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday he is no longer a Republican following the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol incited by President Donald Trump and criticized the party for supporting his behavior. “They did, and that’s why I can no longer call myself a fellow Republican. I’m not a fellow of anything

Federal authorities on Sunday arrested two men who were depicted in photos of the riot inside the Capitol wearing protective armor and carrying items that could be used to restrain a person, according to a release. The two men, Eric Gavelek Munchel of Tennessee and Larry Rendell Brock of Texas, a retired Air Force Reserve

President Donald Trump is itching to lash out at Big Tech after many companies banned him from their platforms and could deliver public remarks at some point Monday but plans haven’t been finalized, people familiar with the matter say. Trump’s suspension from Twitter in particular has enraged the President, who spent the weekend apoplectic about

President-elect Joe Biden and his Covid-19 task force are treating the pandemic as a national security-level crisis, but with just days to go before inauguration, some major details of how they will ramp up vaccine distribution to the level promised are still being sorted out, multiple sources tell CNN. The Biden administration will inherit a