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Joint Session of Congress Confirms Biden’s Election Victory Following Mob Attack on U.S. Capitol Vice President Mike Pence, who serves as president pro tem of the U.S. Senate, and House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi during the Joint Session of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021. WASHINGTON – Congress has concluded its count of the electoral vote for the 2020 presidential election and has certified President-Elect Joe Biden’s victory. The action occurred early Thursday morning and took pl...

Rep. Andy Kim, D-N.J., cleans up debris strewn across the floor of the Rotunda in the early morning hours of Thursday, following the previous day’s storming of the Capitol by extremist Trump supporters. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) WASHINGTON (CN) — A group of U.S. lawmakers formally introduced articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on Thursday following his incitement of followers who ultimately laid siege to the U.S. Capitol. Sponsored by Democrat Representative Ilhan Omar of ...

Mulvaney served as Trumps acting chief of staff and budget chief He told Sec. of State Mike Pompeo he could no longer serve in remaining role I cant do it  Matt Pottinger handed in his resignation Wednesday in dismay over the siege by Donald Trumps supporters on the US Capitol, sources said The Deputy National Security Advisor had been planning to stand down on election day but quit early over Trumps part in inciting Wednesdays unrest  Stephanie Grisham, the former White House press secretary...

Before dawn Thursday, lawmakers completed their work, confirming Biden won the presidential election. The lawsuits failed as judge after judge found no violation of state law or constitutional rights, or no grounds to grant an immediate halt to certifying the election. Senate Rejects Pennsylvania Republican Senator Pat Toomey said he was disappointed at Trumps loss, but he would not set aside the will of the people of the Commonwealth. He also rejected the election lies that spurred the violenc...

Donald Trump pledges orderly transfer of power to Joe Biden Biden, 78, and Harris, 56, are scheduled to be sworn in as the President and Vice President of the country on January 20 PTI | January 7, 2021 | Updated 15:23 IST Donald Trump and Joe Biden Outgoing US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that there will be an "orderly" transfer of power to Joe Biden on January 20. Trumps remarks came minutes after a Joint Session of the US Congress formally certified the Electoral College victory ...

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Congress convened Wednesday to perform the largely ceremonial counting of Electoral College votes and to declare Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 presidential election. Donald Trump countered with a rally that he had been planning for weeks. “Big protest in DC on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!” “Let’s have trial by combat,” Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s disgraced personal lawyer, crowed from the rally podium. “Stand up and fight!”...

WBGZ Radio 1/6/2021 | By Greg Bishop - Illinois Radio Network A Republican member of Illinois’ congressional delegation plans to stand with other members of Congress from across the country to object to the certification of Electoral College votes from states that President Donald Trump lost, setting up a moment in history that hasn’t happened since 1867.   Trump has not conceded to former President-elect Joe Biden. Trump has claimed he won the race “by a landslide,” but the Electoral...

Put GOP before Trump: Mitch McConnell plans speech today pleading with Republicans to save their party and NOT get behind President Congress will convene at 1pm Wednesday to certify Joe Bidens Electoral College victory at a joint session led by Vice President Mike Pence  A group of 13 rogue Republican senators led by Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley plan to file objections to the results in at least three battleground states Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will made a last-ditch effort to dissu...

Vice-President Mike Pence can save our country To do so, however, he must grab hold of the power the Constitution grants specifically to him – the exclusionary power to nullify and invalidate Electoral votes from those States where he believes the election process was so flawed and fraudulent, criminal and corrupt, there is no possible remedy otherwise. Of course, wielding such power is the very definition of Tyranny – the Webster Dictionary definition being “absolute power vest...

Texas Rep. Kevin Brady, the top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee, has tested positive for coronavirus, he announced Tuesday.