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…
Vice President Kamala Harris took an unmistakable shot at President-elect Donald Trump in a social media video ahead of her certification of the 2024 election result — Trump’s victory over Harris. VP Harris had only one item listed on her public schedule for Monday: “At 1:00 PM ET, the Vice President will preside over a…
Vice President Kamala Harris took an unmistakable shot at President-elect Donald Trump in a social media video ahead of her certification of the 2024 election result — Trump’s victory over Harris. VP Harris had only one item listed on her public schedule for Monday: “At 1:00 PM ET, the Vice President will preside over a…
Key figures of the January 6 Capitol riot include (left to right) ‘QAnon Shaman’ Jacob Chansley, Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, Kelly Meggs and Stewart Rhodes (Pictures: AP/Getty/Reuters) Four years after the January 6 Capitol riot shocked the US and the world, former and President-elect Donald Trump is preparing for his return to the White House. More than…
Former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., were honored by President Joe Biden with the Presidential Citizens Medal last week. It’s the second-highest civilian award in the U.S., and for the co-chairs of the House Jan. 6 committee it’s well-deserved. In an interview with NBC News in December, though, President-elect Donald Trump…
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…