The House of Representatives is set to hold a vote on a non-binding resolution that calls on Vice President Mike Pence to “convene and mobilize” President Donald Trump’s cabinet to remove the president from power, using the powers granted by the 25th Amendment to the Constitution.
Joint Chiefs of Staff statement labels last Wednesday’s siege ‘a direct assault on the U.S. Congress, the Capitol building, and our constitutional process.’
Affirm Holdings Inc., which lets people purchase goods and pay over time, reportedly priced its initial public offering well above its target at $49 a share late Tuesday to raise at least $1.2 billion.
The executive director of the Republican Attorneys General Association resigned after the group was criticized for soliciting thousands of Trump supporters to march on the Capitol last week and fight to support President Trump’s claims of widespread voter fraud.
Bob Kroll, who had praised President Trump at a ‘MAGA’ rally for ‘letting the cops do their jobs,’ defended the officers involved in the killing of George Floyd last summer.
Romney has voiced his anger over the invasion of the U.S. Capitol Wednesday by Trump supporters, many of whom were violent. Having voted for removal last year, he’s the odds-on favorite to do so again, along with at least publicly, a handful of other Republicans.
The global case tally for the coronavirus illness COVID-19 rose above 90 million on Monday, and the U.S. topped 22 million confirmed cases, after setting a record for new cases in a single day of more than 300,000 on Friday.
People with a history of severe allergic reactions should be monitored after receiving the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and should reconsider getting the second dose if the anaphylaxis is severe, U.S. health officials said Wednesday.
President-elect Joe Biden plans to distribute available doses of the COVID-19 vaccines when he comes into office — which is the latest proposal made by government officials in the U.S. and abroad who are trying to speed up a slow and complicated vaccination rollout.
Futures point to a lower start for equities on Monday, which would mark a pullback from record levels set at the end of last week as investors weigh rising risks around a continued surge in COVID-19 cases and monitor the fallout from a violent mob attack on Capitol Hill.