Politics

President-elect Joe Biden is urging Congress to back a round of $1,400 per-person direct payments and asking for funding for testing and vaccine distribution.

President Trump became the only president to be impeached twice, this time for allegedly encouraging a mob to storm Congress as part of an effort to overturn Joe Biden’s election win. A trial in the Senate would occur after Biden takes office on Jan. 20.

​In 2016, Hillary Clinton made a series of predictions about a Trump White House. Four years later, some of these have been “strikingly” spot on.

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Lawsuit seeks order to prevent Amazon from shutting down social-media platform’s account

Donald Trump might not really be sacked before his term is up. But there are two good reasons why an impeachment would hit him where it hurts.

Far-right violence got Parler kicked off the internet.

More White House officials are expected to resign over the coming days

Officer Brian D. Sicknick's death marks the fifth fatality in connection to the violent mob attack on the Capitol

President encouraged a mob of rioters that stormed the U.S. Capitol Wednesday before Joe Biden’s election win was ratified

Congress ratified the president-elect’s victory in an overnight joint session, with lawmakers from both parties condemning president’s rhetoric

The horned man dressed in furs and face paint who stormed the Capitol has been revealed as actor and hardcore Trump supporter Jake Angeli.

Joe Biden’s presidential election victory has been certified by Congress despite objections by Trump loyalists. The certification process was disrupted earlier when a mob broke into the Capitol.

U.S. Capitol Police put the Capitol into an hourslong lockdown after pro-Trump rioters forced their way into Congress, forcing lawmakers to shelter in place and halting debate over the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College win. A woman who was shot during the unrest has died, D.C. police said.

US President Donald Trump has doubled down on his conviction that his political nemeses stole his rightful victory in November. In a rally outside the White House, the president declared he will “never concede.”

Raphael Warnock beat the GOP incumbent in a key race, putting Donald Trump’s party a seat away from losing its majority in the Senate.

Nancy Pelosi, the only woman to serve as US Speaker of the House, was narrowly re-elected to the position Sunday in a deeply divided new Congress that convened in the final weeks of Donald Trump's presidency.

US Vice-President Mike Pence has welcomed an effort by a group of senators to refuse to certify Joe Biden's presidential election win.