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Republican U.S. Senator Tim Scott launches presidential bid with optimistic message

Republican U.S. Senator Tim Scott launches presidential bid with optimistic message

GRAM SLATTERY TIM Scott, the only Black Republican in the U.S. Senate, formally kicked off his 2024 presidential campaign, betting his upbeat message will sell in a party in which many voters are still firmly behind former President Donald Trump. In a speech to supporters in his hometown of North Charleston, South Carolina, Scott, 57, leaned heavily into his personal experience as the impoverished child of a single mother as proof that America remains a nation of opportunity. He emphasized the progress the United States has made on racial issues in recent decades, proclaiming - as he often does -…
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U.S. Senate honors police officer who protected lawmakers in riot

U.S. Senate honors police officer who protected lawmakers in riot

MAKINI BRICE AFTER hours of heated arguments in former President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, lawmakers found a rare moment of consensus when the U.S. Senate voted to award the highest honor Congress can bestow to one of the police officers who responded to the January 6 Capitol siege. By unanimous consent, the Senate passed a measure to give the Congressional Gold Medal to officer Eugene Goodman of the U.S. Capitol Police force. Goodman steered rioters away from lawmakers as a pro-Trump mob rampaged through the Capitol while Congress gathered to formally certify President Joe Biden's election victory. In a video…
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U.S. Senate acquits Trump, for 2nd time

U.S. Senate acquits Trump, for 2nd time

RICHARD COWAN, DAVID MORGAN and MAKINI BRICE DONALD Trump was yesterday acquitted by the U.S. Senate in his second impeachment trial in 12 months, as his fellow Republicans shielded him from accountability for the deadly assault by his supporters on the U.S. Capitol, a shrine of American democracy. The Senate vote of 57-43 fell short of the two-thirds majority needed to convict Trump on a charge of incitement of insurrection after a five-day trial in the same building ransacked by his followers on January 6 shortly after they heard him deliver an incendiary speech. In the vote, seven of the…
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Trump’s impeachment trial proceeds, but conviction may prove elusive

Trump’s impeachment trial proceeds, but conviction may prove elusive

DAVID MORGAN and RICHARD COWAN A divided U.S. Senate voted largely along party lines on Tuesday to move ahead with Donald Trump's impeachment trial on a charge of inciting the deadly assault on the Capitol, but conviction appears unlikely barring a major shift among Republicans. The Senate voted 56-44 to proceed to the first-ever trial of a former president, rejecting his defence lawyers' argument that Trump was beyond the reach of the Senate after having left the White House on January 20. Democrats hope to disqualify Trump from ever again holding public office, but Tuesday's outcome suggested they face long…
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Georgia voters cast runoff ballots with U.S. Senate at stake and Trump fuming

Georgia voters cast runoff ballots with U.S. Senate at stake and Trump fuming

NATHAN LAYNE and JOSEPH AX VOTERS have cast ballots in a pair of U.S. Senate runoff elections in Georgia that will determine control of the chamber - and with it the ability to block or advance Democratic President-elect Joe Biden's agenda - after a contentious campaign that broke spending and early-turnout records. Republican Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler are facing Democratic challengers Jon Ossoff, a documentary filmmaker, and the Reverend Raphael Warnock, a pastor at a Black church in Atlanta, in a state Biden narrowly carried in the Nov. 3 presidential election. The tumultuous contest's final days have been…
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McConnell thwarts Trump bid for $2,000 virus relief checks

McConnell thwarts Trump bid for $2,000 virus relief checks

SUSAN CORNWELL and DAVID MORGAN U.S. Senate leader Mitch McConnell has dealt a likely death blow to President Donald Trump's bid to boost coronavirus aid to Americans, declining to schedule a swift Senate vote on a bill to raise relief checks to $2,000 from $600. McConnell said on the Senate floor that a bill passed by the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives, which sought to meet fellow Republican Trump's demands for bigger checks, "has no realistic path to quickly pass the Senate." McConnell, who controls the Senate's agenda and opposes the increase in aid, had introduced a competing bill combining the…
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Trump celebrates at White House as Supreme Court nominee confirmed

Trump celebrates at White House as Supreme Court nominee confirmed

LAWRENCE HURLEY and JEFF MASON PRESIDENT Donald Trump revelled in one of his signature achievements at a White House ceremony to celebrate U.S. Senate confirmation of his third Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, eight days before the election. The made-for-TV prime-time event on the White House lawn mirrored one a month ago, when Barrett's nomination was announced, which preceded a coronavirus outbreak among top Republicans including Trump himself. It came little more than an hour after the Republican-controlled Senate confirmed Barrett to the lifetime appointment on a 52-48 vote, with Democrats unified in opposition. Her confirmation as successor to…
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