Dit het gelyk of daar een veilige weddenskap was wat die 2020 verkiesingsuitslae: Demokrate sal maklik hul meerderheid in die Huis van Verteenwoordigers vashou. Nie net dit nie, but the conventional wisdom held that Democrats would pick up more than the 235 seats they won in the 2018 middeltermynverkiesings.
Schumer says House will send impeachment article to Senate on Monday
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said that the House's article of impeachment will be delivered to the Senate on Monday, triggering the start of the Senate's impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump. "...
Georgia man charged with scamming nearly $1 million from grocery store
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A Georgia man was arrested and charged with scamming almost $ 1 million from a grocery store and using it to buy clothes, guns and cars, polisie gesê. Tre Brown, 19, was arrested January 14 after he allegedly creat...
Rescue operation to free miners trapped underground for nearly 2 weeks could take another 15 dae
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Chinese officials say it could day 15 days to drill through 70 tons of debris to reach miners trapped underground for nearly two weeks after an explosion at a gold mine in eastern China. Twenty-two miners were left...
Capitol Police investigating after congressman discovered carrying a gun when attempting to go on the House floor
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US Capitol Police are investigating an incident in which a Republican lawmaker was stopped from bringing a concealed gun onto the House floor on Thursday, bronne aan CNN gesê, the first time a member of Congress has be...
Republicans position themselves for 2024 with Trump’s future looming large
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Republicans are already making moves toward the 2024 verkiesing, jockeying to succeed former President Donald Trump now that he has departed Washington, either by picking up his mantle or by trying to steer the party ...
Vatican bank’s former chief found guilty of money laundering, sentenced to nearly 9 years in prison
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The former head of the Vatican bank, Angelo Caloia, has been sentenced to nearly nine years in prison for money laundering and aggravated embezzlement. The 81-year-old was handed an eight year, 11 month jail term o...
The case of the White House bust of Winston Churchill
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It had once been a transatlantic art scandal -- or at least various actors of questionable intent would have you believe it was. Overheated, confusing and laden in the end with blatant racism, the case of the White ...
The White House contact form now lets people choose their personal pronouns
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A new feature on the relaunched White House website contact form allows people to choose their own pronouns, reflecting the new administration's commitment to diversity. The change did not go unnoticed -- it was sh...
The Biden administration has an Easter egg for IT pros on the White House website
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The White House website has a special message for IT folks who know where to look -- and it could lead to a job with the government. The Biden administration updated the whitehouse.gov website Wednesday once Joe Bid...
Die optoggroep van Howard Universiteit sal vise-president Kamala Harris na die Withuis begelei
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Die optoggroep van Howard Universiteit het al voorheen aan presidensiële inhuldigings deelgeneem. Maar tydens die eerste parade van vandag, hulle sal een van hul eie begelei. Die bekende Showtime Marching Band sal saam met V ...
NBA star Kyrie Irving bought George Floyd’s family a house
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Brooklyn Nets point guard Kyrie Irving bought a house for the family of George Floyd, who died last year at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer. Former NBA player Stephen Jackson, who was a close friend of Flo...
Biden’s daughter Ashley on not having traditional hand-off at White House on Inauguration Day: ‘I think we’re all OK with it’
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President-elect Joe Biden's daughter, Ashley Biden, did her first network television interview with another member of the small club of presidential children, Jenna Bush Hager of NBC. In an interview that aired Tue...