JANUARY 6, 2021
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) arrives at the U.S. Capitol and walks to his office on Jan. 06, 2021. - Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was pleading with White House chief of staff Mark Meadows: President Donald Trump’s wild conspiracy theories about voter fraud — which threatened to depress Republican turnout — were...
JANUARY 6, 2021
Georgia Democratic Senate candidates Raphael Warnock, right, and Jon Ossoff headline a drive-in voting rally on Dec. 28, 2020, in Stonecrest, Ga. - Jessica McGowan, Getty Images
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Democrats recaptured control of the U.S. Senate by winning both Georgia seats up for election Tuesday, giving the party complete control of Congress and President-elect Joe Biden...
JANUARY 6, 2021
Trump Supporters Hold "Stop The Steal" Rally In DC Amid Ratification Of Presidential Election. - Getty Images
Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have taken down a video in which President Trump addressed his supporters as a mob of pro-Trump protesters stormed the U.S. Capitol Wednesday afternoon. The sites said the video, in which Mr. Trump seemingly sympathized with...
JANUARY 6, 2021
Congressional staff members are evacuated Wednesday after rioters breached the U.S. Capitol, interrupting a joint congressional session to count the electoral college vote in Washington. (Amanda Voisard for TWP)
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressional Democrats and some Republicans on Wednesday accused President Trump of inciting a coup after an angry mob of his supporters stormed the U.S....
JANUARY 6, 2021
The sergeant-at-arms, the top security official at the Capitol, announced that the building was secure, hours after a mob of Trump supporters stormed the building on Wednesday. - Anna Moneymaker/NY Times
Lawmakers will resume counting Electoral College votes on Wednesday, hours after a mob of Trump loyalists stormed the Capitol, Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California said as...
JANUARY 6, 2021
Rev. Raphael Warnock makes history as he becomes the first Black senator to be elected from Georgia. - Jessica McGowan/Getty Images
The Rev. Raphael Warnock has defeated Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler in one of Georgia's close Senate runoff elections that took place on Tuesday — giving the Democratic Party one more seat in Congress.
Early Wednesday morning, Warnock...
JANUARY 5, 2021
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday a new COVID-19 strain that was detected in the state after it was first identified in the United Kingdom last month "could be a game changer." He called it "highly problematic."
"This is a virus we have to be extra careful with," the governor said at a press conference.
The state's first...
JANUARY 5, 2021
The ‘dead voters’ claims are without substance, as election officials across the state where Trump tried to challenge the results have pointed out.
What is a banana republic? If Donald Trump had his way, the US would have been one. It would have been hyperbole maybe a few weeks back, despite Trump's relentless undermining of the...
JANUARY 5, 2021
Badrinath shrine in Chamoli district covered in snow on Tuesday. (HT PHOTO.)
With a fresh spell of snowfall, the Char Dham shrines and hilly areas of Uttarakhand were covered in a white blanket of snow on Tuesday.
The Badrinath shrine in Chamoli district witnessed snowfall for almost the entire day on Tuesday with over one feet of snow being...
JANUARY 5, 2021
Washington: Former US president Barack Obama has warned of threats to the fundamental principles of America's democracy, a day after the emergence of the leaked audio in which President Donald Trump was heard telling Georgia's top election official to find over 11,000 votes to reverse President-elect Joe Biden's win in the 3 November poll.
Obama’s remarks came on...
