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Impeachment complicates the early days of Biden's presidency
WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden already faces the daunting task of steering a newly announced $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill through a closely divided Congress as the pandemic and its ec...
Jan 15, 2021
Trump trial pending, McConnell calls it 'vote of conscience'
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's impeachment trial is likely to start after Joe Biden's inauguration, and the Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, is telling senators their decision on whether to ...
Jan 15, 2021
Pelosi's nine impeachment managers hope to 'finish the job'
WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has tapped nine of her most trusted allies in the House to argue the case for President Donald Trump's impeachment. The Democrats, all of whom are lawyers and m...
Jan 15, 2021
Capitol rioters included highly trained ex-military and cops
WASHINGTON - As President Donald Trump's supporters massed outside the Capitol last week and sang the national anthem, a line of men wearing olive-drab helmets and body armour trudged purposefully up ...
Jan 15, 2021
Poet Amanda Gorman, 22, will read at Biden inaugural
NEW YORK - At age 22, poet Amanda Gorman, chosen to read at the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, already has a history of writing for official occasions. "I have kind of stumbled upon this g...
Jan 15, 2021
12 Pakistani police fired for not protecting Hindu temple
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Pakistani authorities sacked a local police chief and 11 other policemen for failing to protect a Hindu temple that was set on fire and demolished last month by a mob led by hundr...
Jan 15, 2021
EXPLAINER: What's next after House impeachment vote
WASHINGTON - Now that the House has impeached President Donald Trump for the second time, Speaker Nancy Pelosi must figure out the best strategy for arguing the case before the Senate. Senate rules sa...
Jan 15, 2021
Spain rejects virus confinement as most of Europe stays home
MADRID - While most of Europe kicked off 2021 with earlier curfews or stay-at-home orders, authorities in Spain insist the new coronavirus variant causing havoc elsewhere is not to blame for a sharp r...
Jan 15, 2021
Cambodian labour leader's trial for border remarks begins
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - The trial of a Cambodian labour union leader charged with inciting social unrest opened in Phnom Penh on Friday, part of a large-scale legal offensive by the government against ...
Jan 15, 2021
Xi asks Starbucks' Schultz to help repair US-China ties
BEIJING - President Xi Jinping is asking former CEO Howard Schultz of Starbucks to help repair U.S.-Chinese relations that have plunged to their lowest level in decades amid a tariff war and tension o...
Jan 15, 2021
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