The United States has opened criminal investigations of more than 170 people who stormed the Capitol last week and plans to charge some of the most serious offenders with assault and seditious conspiracy for their role in the violence, a federal prosecutor said on Tuesday.
U.S. Representative Fred Upton will vote to impeach President Donald Trump, Upton spokesman Josh Paciorek said on Tuesday, making the Michigan lawmaker the fourth Republican House member to announce they will vote to impeach the president over the attack on the Capitol by.
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WASHINGTON, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Increasing debt distress in emerging markets means that China, now the world’s largest official creditor, will need to start restructuring debts in the same way that Paris Club lenders did in past crises, World Bank Chief Economist Carmen Reinhart told the Reuters Next conference on Tuesday.
“What I think China will need to do to confront this is what previous other creditors in the past had done, which is you have to restructure. And restructure big time, meaning either lower interest rates, longer maturities, write-off in principal or some combination of that,” Reinhart said in a panel discussion on economic inequality.
Never been greater betrayal : Republicans to support Trump s impeachment
The Democratic Party has 222 members in the 435-seat House of Representatives. The Republican Party has 211 seats, with two vacancies
Associated Press | January 13, 2021 | Updated 12:02 IST
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Ahead of Wednesday s voting in the House of Representatives to impeach President Donald Trump on charges of inciting his supporters to attack the US Capitol, cracks appeared in the Republican Party as three of its lawmakers announced their decision to vote in favour of the motion.
Congresswoman Liz Cheney, the third-most powerful Republican lawmaker in the House of Representatives, was the first GOP House leader to announce that she will vote to impeach Trump. There has never been a greater betrayal by a President of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution. I will vote to impeach the President, Cheney said.
Representative Liz Cheney adds her name to the growing number of Democrats and Republicans voting to impeach President Donald Trump for a second time – but why?