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Rioters rampaging through the US Capitol called for vice-president Mike Pence to be hung for not supporting defeated President Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the result, in a video played at Trump’s second impeachment trial.
Opinion
Donald Trump’s shadow will continue to fall over Republicans long after he has left office, and the party he captured has to make hard decisions about its way forward, argues Bryan Cranston.
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The US Justice Department has opened criminal investigations on more than 170 individuals for their involvement in the riot at the US Capitol by President Donald Trump’s supporters, aiming to charge people with assault and seditious conspiracy.
US Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the House will proceed with legislation to impeach President Donald Trump unless the vice president and Cabinet invoke constitutional authority to force him out, calling Trump a threat to democracy.
The head of Washington’s Capitol police says he will resign over what lawmakers called a “shocking failure” of security which allowed a mob incited by President Donald Trump to run unchecked through the heart of government as Congress met to ratify Joe Biden’s election win.
Far-right Trump supporters, egged on by a speech from the President repeating claims of election fraud, have stormed the US Capitol, forcing police to barricade doors to the Senate and House of Representatives and keep protesters at bay at gunpoint as Congress met to certify president-elect Joe Biden’s win.
The Australian embassy in Washington DC is talking to the US State Department after a Network Seven reporter and cameraman were beaten by police outside the White House.
