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US Senate fails to hold Trump accountable again
Feb 14, 2021 05:08The second impeachment trial of Donald Trump has come to an end with US senators voting to acquit the former president.
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White supremacy and American policing
Feb 13, 2021 02:27The assault on the U.S. Capitol has drawn attention to the presence of far-right extremists in the U.S. military and law enforcement. While the Pentagon has taken steps to address the problem, the police chiefs will have a much harder time rooting out extremism in their departments.
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Discontent as US stimulus stalls amid impeachment trial
Feb 11, 2021 05:37As the nation’s media and political elite are consumed by the impeachment trial of ex-president Donald Trump, talks on a desperately-needed and long-delayed major economic stimulus package have been forced on hold.
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Why GOP argument against trying Trump is so dangerous
Feb 10, 2021 16:45As the Senate trial of former US President Donald Trump nears, the defense is coming into view. It appears that most Senate Republicans will not defend Trump’s conduct around the Jan. 6 Capitol siege. Instead, they will rally around an argument about the chamber’s constitutional powers and the supposedly dangerous consequences for US politics if the Senate tries a “late impeachment.”
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Six GOP senators join Dems to declare Trump impeachment constitutional
Feb 10, 2021 03:31Six Republican senators have crossed party lines to vote in favor of the constitutionality of former President Donald Trump’s impeachment.
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Pushing QAnon and stolen election lies, Flynn re-emerges
Feb 08, 2021 14:13In Washington’s respectable circles, Michael T. Flynn, the former national security adviser, is a discredited and dishonored ex-general, a once-esteemed military intelligence officer who went off the rails ideologically and then was fired a mere 24 days into the Trump administration for lying to the F.B.I. about contacts with the Russian ambassador.
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Trump impeachment is ‘partisan farce’; ‘zero chance’ of conviction: Rand Paul
Feb 08, 2021 05:34US Republican Senator Rand Paul has said the upcoming impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump has "zero chance" that he will be convicted, describing it as a "partisan farce."
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Trump funneled donor funds into private business after election loss: Report
Feb 07, 2021 05:36Former US President Donald Trump has moved thousands of dollars from his donors into his private business after he lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden.
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Trump rejects surprise call to testify in his impeachment trial
Feb 05, 2021 06:14Donald Trump’s lawyers have rejected a surprise request from the House impeachment managers for the former president to testify at his impeachment trial in the US Senate next week.
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US far-right Proud Boys declared as terrorist group in Canada
Feb 04, 2021 08:05US white supremacist group, Proud Boys – one of the staunch supporters of former president Donald Trump – has officially been declared as a terrorist group in Canada.