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Vice President Kamala Harris today will have the task of announcing the certification of the winner of the presidential election, Donald Trump. Coming on the fourth anniversary of the Trump-fueled riot and storming of the U.S. Capitol, Harris in a new video presented an implicit contrast to the way that she is handling her constitutional…
Among the many legends about vampires is the belief that one cannot enter a home unless invited. “He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come,” Bram Stoker tells us in Dracula. The same legend has been associated with sundry demons (Mephistopheles in…
WASHINGTON — Despite a massive snowstorm that shut down most of the nation’s capital, Congress still has a constitutionally mandated job to do on Monday. Lawmakers will convene to certify the November election results which will send President-elect Donald Trump back to the White House for a second term. The Associated Press said that lawmakers…
President-elect Donald Trump, minutes after Kamala Harris posted a video statement confirming that she would certify her own election loss today, took to his Truth Social media platform to celebrate his “great” victory. Advertisement The Vice President posted a video to X explaining that she will, in fact, go through with the ignominy of having…
Washington — Japan’s Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel are filing a federal lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s decision to block a proposed nearly $15 billion deal for Nippon to acquire Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel. The suit, filed Monday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, alleges that it was a political decision…
Washington — President Joe Biden is moving to ban new offshore oil and gas drilling in most U.S. coastal waters, a last-minute effort to block possible action by the incoming Trump administration to expand offshore drilling. Biden, whose term expires in two weeks, said he is using authority under the federal Outer Continental Shelf Lands…
A major winter blast of snow, ice, wind and plunging temperatures in the U.S. stirred dangerous travel conditions from central and southern states all the way to the East Coast early Monday, prompting schools and government offices in several states to close. Snow and ice blanketed major roads across Kansas, western Nebraska and parts of…
“Jan. 6th should be an unremarkable day. This is a day that the rest of America should never have to really think about it,” said newly minted Sen. Andy Kim, D-N.J. “Just a pro forma certification of the election results. The fact that it is a day that still lingers in our consciousness kind of…
PLAINS, GEORGIA — When Jimmy Carter chose branding designs for his presidential campaign, he passed on the usual red, white and blue. He wanted green. Emphasizing how much the Georgia Democrat enjoyed nature and prioritized environmental policy, the color became ubiquitous. On buttons, bumper stickers, brochures, the sign rechristening the old Plains train depot as…