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Growing questions about police stand-down in January 6 coup attempt The day after President Donald Trump mounted a fascist insurrection at the US Capitol in an attempt to subvert the Constitution and install himself as dictator, more details are emerging regarding the coconspirators within the police, military and far-right who took part in the insurrection. Despite weeks of advance notice that thousands of people would be descending on DC and Congress on the orders of Trump, Capitol police made little effort to prevent their entry. Video has already emerged of police opening gates to protes...

A total of four people died after a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday (Jan. 6).

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris and their new administration got to work in a nation besieged by a raging pandemic, economic calamity and deep political divisions. Biden signed 17 executive orders shortly after his swearing-in, dealing with the pandemic, climate change, immigration and other pressing issues that reflected the dramatic divergence of his priorities from those of the vanquished Trump administration. Latest...

A US Capitol police officer is the latest to be confirmed dead after a mob of...

Donald Trump was last night facing the prospect of being removed from office before the end of his presidential term as Democratic congressional leaders threatened impeachment unless the cabinet forced his exit. Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, the Democratic Party leaders in the US House of Representatives and Senate respectively, demanded Mr Trump’s immediate removal amid outrage at his actions before the US Capitol was stormed by a mob of his supporters. They publicly called on Mike Pence, the US vice-president, to invoke the 25th amendment, a mechanism that removes a president who is “...