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Washington DC; 14 January 2021 (UMMN): The US House of Representatives has impeached President Donald Trump for "incitement of insurrection" at last week's Capitol riot, by 232-197 votes, on Wednesday, after several hours of impassioned debate.

10 Republicans sided with Democrats to impeach the president.

Trump is the first president in US history to be impeached twice.

(AP) --- State leaders around the U.S. are increasingly pushing for schools to reopen this winter — pressuring them, even — as teachers begin to gain access to the vaccine against the raging pandemic.

WASHINGTON (AP) — His place in the history books rewritten, President Donald Trump endured his second impeachment largely alone and silent.

For more than four years, Trump has dominated the national discourse like no one before him. Yet when his legacy was set in stone on Wednesday, he was stunningly left on the sidelines.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ten Republicans — including Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, the No. 3 House GOP leader — voted to impeach President Donald Trump Wednesday over the deadly insurrection at the Capitol. The GOP votes were in sharp contrast to the unanimous support for Trump among House Republicans when he was impeached by Democrats in December 2019.

Cheney, whose decision to buck Trump sparked an immediate backlash within the GOP, was the only member of her party’s leadership to support impeachment, which was opposed by 197 Republicans.

NEW YORK, Jan 13 (APP): US President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi espouse politics of hate and mob rule for political advantage, according to an article in an influential American newspaper, which brings out similarities between the two beleaguered nationalist leaders.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives is planning to send its articles of impeachment to the Senate as soon as this week, the chamber’s No. 2 Democrat Steny Hoyer said on Wednesday.

“There is no reason why we can’t send it this week .. We intend to do that,” he told MSNBC in an interview, citing discussions with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

(Reuters) - Vaccines and fresh economic stimulus promised by U.S. President-elect Joe Biden will give the global economy a chance to put the coronavirus pandemic behind it in 2021, policymakers and industry leaders told the Reuters Next conference.

Their optimism came despite a resurgence in COVID-19 cases that has prompted the World Bank to downgrade its growth forecast for this year and warn that delays in vaccination programmes could pinch recovery even further.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's final trip abroad to Europe was cancelled on Tuesday with multiple reports saying European officials declined to meet the outgoing U.S. top diplomat.

State Department Spokesperson Morgan Ortagus said in a Tuesday statement that Pompeo's trip was cancelled due to the transition with the incoming Joe Biden administration.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday spoke publicly for the first time since House Democrats moved to impeach him, calling the impeachment "ridiculous."

Referring to his speech on Jan. 6 that the Democrats said fomented the subsequent riot on the Capitol Hill on the same day, Trump said what he said in the speech was "totally appropriate."

The president was addressing reporters before departing for Alamo, Texas, to inspect the border wall.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A former Minneapolis police officer who held his knee to George Floyd’s neck for minutes will be tried separately from the three other former officers accused in his death, according to an order filed Tuesday that cites limited courtroom space due to COVID-19 restrictions.