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-0:00 House Votes to Remove Marjorie Taylor Greene From Committees On Thursday, House lawmakers voted 230 to 199 to remove freshman Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene from the Education and Budget Committees over her endorsements of violence and spreading of misinformation on social media. “I did not hear an apology or denouncement for the claim, the insinuation that political opponents should be violently dealt with. I didn’t hear anybody apologize or retract the anti-Semitic and Islamo...

After historic impeachment vote, heres what comes next President Trump is likely to face an impeachment trial after leaving office. Heres why its still significant. Author: Kent Erdahl Updated: 6:48 PM CST January 13, 2021 MINNEAPOLIS — Just one week after a violent and deadly siege that came to the door of the U.S. House of Representatives, members returned to a now heavily fortified Capitol building, walking past dozens of military members, to cast an histori...

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, has told associates that he believes President Trump committed impeachable offenses and that he is pleased that Democrats are moving to impeach him, believing that it will make it easier to purge him from the party, according to people familiar with his thinking. The House is voting on Wednesday to formally charge Mr. Trump with inciting violence against the country.

The representative from Colorado, first elected in 1996, spent 14 years as the Democrats’ chief deputy whip and often holds the gavel in the House.

Southern States Are Facing an Explosion of Virus Cases Last Updated Dec. 25, 2020, 11:11 a.m. ETDec. 25, 2020, 11:11 a.m. ET As Mexico begins a mass inoculation program, Iran gets U.S. clearance to buy the vaccine. Warnings or no warnings, millions of Americans are traveling for the holidays. This briefing has ended. Tennessee has reported the country’s most cases per 100,000 people on average over the last seven days. Gov. Bill Lee has refused to enforce a mask mandate, but an employee at a...

Answering Trump, Democrats try and fail to jam $2,000 payments through House The fate of $900 billion in pandemic aid will remain in limbo over the Christmas break By Emily Cochrane and Luke Broadwater New York Times,Updated December 24, 2020, 5:22 p.m. Email to a Friend Speaker Nancy Pelosi vowed to hold a roll-call vote on the direct payments legislation Monday, declaring that voting against it would "deny the financial hardship that families face.Oliver Contreras/Bloomberg WASHINGTON — ...