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Participants in Joe Biden's inauguration rehearsal evacuated from Capitol after fire in homeless encampment
• 4 years agoFour law enforcement officials told The Associated Press there had been a blaze several blocks over and the rehearsal was evacuated in an abundance of caution
With Republican support cracking, President Donald Trump on brink of unprecedented second impeachment
• 4 years agoIn the House, the number three Republican Liz Cheney said she would be voting to impeach, and called Trump's actions "a betrayal" of his office
Donald Trump's Republican wall of support erodes as US House begins impeachment proceedings
• 4 years agoThe choice facing Republicans isn't just about the immediate fate of the outgoing president, but also whether the party's elected leaders are ready to move on
President-elect Joe Biden picks Samantha Power, former United Nations envoy, for US aid post
• 4 years agoPower, who served as UN ambassador from 2013 to 2017, won a Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for her book about the US foreign policy response to genocide
Senator Mitch McConnell, most powerful Republican in US Congress, privately backs Donald Trump's impeachment
• 4 years agoThe Senate Majority Leader's assessment comes on the eve of a House vote to formally charge Trump for his role in whipping up a mob of his supporters who stormed the Capitol
Donald Trump rejects blame for siege of US Capitol, calls Washington speech 'totally appropriate'
• 4 years agoThe outgoing president described his scheduled impeachment in the House of Representatives on Wednesday a "continuation of the greatest witch hunt in the history of politics"
Plans for armed protest at all 50 state Capitols ahead of Joe Biden's inauguration on 20 Jan, warns FBI
• 4 years agoThe talk of armed marches next week isn’t limited to “radicalised” Trump supporters. State capitol events on 17 January appear to be promoted by supporters of the anti-government, pro-gun “boogaloo” movement
President-elect Joe Biden picks William Burns as CIA chief; career diplomat set stage for Iran nuclear deal
• 4 years agoBurns has deep experience in security and intelligence matters after spending over three decades in the US foreign service, including a stint as ambassador to Russia from 2005 to 2008
Donald Trump says he won't attend Joe Biden's inauguration on 20 January, days after Capitol violence
• 4 years agoTrump offered no clues for how he would spent his final hours in office, and will be the first incumbent president since Andrew Johnson to skip his successor’s swearing-in
American Carnage: Storming of US Capitol puts paid to Ronald Reagan's shining city on a hill myth
Fp Staff • 4 years agoThe US Capitol was breached on Wednesday for the first time since 1814, when the British marched into Washington DC and set it ablaze