On Tuesday, one day before his inauguration as the 46th president of the United States, US president Joe Biden delivered a speech with emotion, fighting back the tears as he commemorated his dead son Beau and thanked his home state of Delaware. Meanwhile, outgoing President Donald Trump said he […]
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Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters and John Legend join the line-up for the special, which will be aired around the inauguration of future president Joe Biden. The artists, who have already openly spoken out for Biden during the elections, will take the stage. According to various American media, Demi Lovato, […]
Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi of the US House of Representatives announced in a letter Sunday that she was ready to initiate impeachment proceedings against outgoing President Donald Trump unless he is removed from office within days. The House of Representatives will vote Monday or Tuesday on a resolution calling […]
The Trump supporters who stormed the US parliament building in Washington on Wednesday to prevent Congress from setting the election results are “domestic terrorists,” said former presidential candidate and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The former first lady states on Twitter that the culprits should be brought to trial. […]
Russian security forces, together with the United States, have broken down an international drug trafficking network. The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) carried out the mission with the US drug investigation agency DEA. In the rare collaboration, they seized 330 kilos of cocaine worth about 1 billion rubles, which […]
US President-elect Joe Biden has called on Georgia residents to vote in three weeks’ time in crucial senatorial elections. On January 5 a second round will be held there for the two senate seats that the state has to forgive. Biden travelled to Atlanta on Tuesday to support the […]
The US government has earmarked $ 250 million for an information campaign to convince people to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. A plan to involve celebrities to spread that message has been scrapped after the political disagreement, reports The New York Times. Many Americans are suspicious of a vaccine. […]
The US Congress wants to block the massive withdrawal of US military personnel from Germany planned by sitting President Donald Trump. That is stated in a bill for the US defence budget, on which the Democrats and Republicans in both houses in Congress reached an agreement on Thursday, writes […]
US President Donald Trump fired Chris Krebs, the nation’s top cybersecurity officer, via Twitter. Trump accused Krebs without proof of making “very false” statements about the integrity of the US presidential election. Krebs, whose job it was to protect the election process from hacker interference, had incited Trump’s anger […]
Catering establishments in the American state of New York will have to deal with adjusted closing times from Friday. The authorities hope to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. Cafés and restaurants that serve alcohol must close at 10 p.m., although customers are still allowed to pick up food […]