Pelosi Threatens Impeachment if Trump Doesnât Resign âImmediatelyâ; Twitter Permanently Suspends Him
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Senator Lisa Murkowski became the first Republican senator to call for President Trumpâs resignation. President-elect Joe Biden introduced top members of his economic team. The House could vote on impeachment next week.
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âIf the president does not leave office imminently and willingly, the Congress will proceed with our action,â Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a letter on Friday.Credit.Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times
Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California threatened on Friday that the House could move to impeach President Trump over his role in inciting a violent mob attack on the Capitol if he did not resign âimmediately,â appealing to Republicans to join the push to force him from office.
A Timeline of COVID-19 from Discovery to Vaccine
By Stephanie Parker, Stacker News
, Diana Shishkina, Stacker News
AND Betsy Ladyzhets, Stacker News
On 1/9/21 at 10:00 AM EST
COVID-19 has spread quickly around the world, causing more than 1.7 million deaths and infecting more than 81 million people as of Dec. 28, 2020, according to Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. It s already hard to remember life before COVID-19 but it was less than a year ago when a doctor in China sounded the alarm about a new respiratory virus. Since then, cases have been confirmed in nearly every country and on every continent except Antarctica. The United States today has the most COVID-19 cases in the world, and cases are rising quickly as people defied CDC recommendations to gather for fall and winter holidays.
Zakiya Dalila Harris scores Hulu contract on debut novel
Zakiya Dahlia Harris (Photo Credit: Nicole Mondestin Photography)
Black writers do not often get the opportunity to make their mark in the publishing world. The New York Times recently released a statement that of all the books published in the United States, only 11 percent are written by people of color. Despite these staggering odds, there is still a wealth of Black talent to look out for in terms of up-and-coming authors. Zakiya Dalila Harris is one such figure.
With a penchant for academia and hard work, Harris received a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MFA in Non-Fiction writing at The New School in Manhattan. Harris went on to work for Knopf Doubleday publishing before writing her manuscript for her upcoming novel,