Donald Trump's impeachment trial to begin on week of 8 February
Republicans had pushed for a delay to give Trump a chance to prepare a defence on the sole charge of incitement of insurrection.
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Republicans had pushed for a delay to give Trump a chance to prepare a defence on the sole charge of incitement of insurrection.
Ahead of an insurrection on 6 January, Trump told thousands of his supporters to “fight like hell” against the election results.
The pardons and commutations for 143 people were announced in the final hours of Trump’s White House term.
Queens University’s Tom Albrecht and Tristan Sturm chart the parallels between last week’s attack on the US Capitol and a similar gathering at the German Reichstag building last year.
The vice president said the mechanism should be reserved for cases of medical or mental incapacitation.
Trump arrived in Texas to trumpet his campaign against illegal immigration in an attempt to enhance his legacy.
President-elect Joe Biden is set to be inaugurated on 20 January.
The chancellor’s spokesperson said freedom of opinion should be intervened in within the framework defined by legislators.
It would be the first time a US president had been impeached twice.
Caoimhín De Barra looks at Trump’s legacy and the impact his presidency has had on democracy.
Trump supporters occupied the US Capitol building yesterday. Biden’s win has since been certified.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Scotland’s travel ban applies to Donald Trump amid speculation he is planning a golf trip during the inauguration.
The US President called the move ‘pathetic’.
Biden said ‘it’s going to take years, not months, to vaccinate the American people’ at the current pace.
Trump complained in a video on Twitter that the bill delivered too much money to foreign countries, but not enough to American citizens.
US trade representative Robert Lighthizer said he is “hopeful” of an agreement.
Mitch McConnell said “the Electoral College has spoken”.
Joe Biden won the state by about 20,600 votes.
Donald Trump has acknowledged it is time for the General Services Administration to “do what needs to be done”.
Larry Donnelly says while defeating Trump is a welcome victory, Democrats are in danger of storing up problems for the future by isolating the centre-ground.
Christopher Krebs was director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
The former president said he is troubled that Republican officials are humouring Donald Trump.
The president’s message came as he repeated several baseless claims about the presidential vote.
Trump yesterday broke his silence after a week without on-camera comments.
Their messages came hours after President Donald Trump once again cried foul.
The Fianna Fáil senator says recent events have convinced him that political discourse has changed and that a place for considered compromise must now be found in Irish politics.
Military personnel changes have fuelled concerns of a push against figures seen as not loyal enough to Trump.
TikTok faces a Thursday deadline to restructure ownership of the app in the United States to meet US security concerns.
A ‘technical error’ is said to be responsible for the situation.
Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows was diagnosed with the virus on Saturday.
World leaders have congratulated Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Joe Biden has won the US election. Here’s what you need to know.
Trump insisted there had been “historic election interference by big media, big money and big tech”.
The overall result of the US election is still unclear.
Corkman Greg Delanty, a poet, found himself running as a candidate in the US election in 2004. It was a learning experience.
A third community with midnight voting suspended the tradition because of coronavirus concerns.
The US President, however, has said that “these patriots did nothing wrong”.