Republican frontrunner is named as new speaker of US House of Representatives as he quells a rebellion among his party's ranks that had paralysed lower chamber of Congress for four days.
Speaker candidate Kevin McCarthy takes a significant step to securing the gavel after four days of deadlock and 14 voting rounds as he manages to win 15 of the 20 hardline fellow Republicans blocking his path.
US President Joe Biden awards Presidential Citizens Medal to 14 people who defended highest seat of American government during riots two years ago, that left five people dead and 140 police officers wounded.
The January 6 riots left five people dead and highlighted a number of failures by security forces assigned to the Capitol.
Ex-president Donald Trump is ordered to testify under oath and provide documents to the team investigating January 2021 attack on Capitol by his supporters.
Trump's 90-minute address to the conservative America First Policy Institute echoed many of the themes of his victorious 2016 campaign, including illegal immigration and crime.
In a superseding indictment, the US has charged six people allegedly connected to far-right fringe group Oath Keepers for conspiring to storm the Capitol. The remaining three defendants were previously indicted for conspiracy in January.
Vote tally of 57-43 did not reach two-thirds majority to convict Donald Trump, but seven of 50 Republicans joined Democrats in voting against the former president in an impeachment trial on a charge of inciting January 6 attack on the US Capitol.
Defence lawyers argued in Donald Trump's impeachment trial that the former president bore no responsibility for the deadly attack on the US Capitol while accusing Democrats of “hatred” and “hypocrisy.”
Democrats use their remaining hours of arguments in the impeachment trial to lay out the physical and mental harm caused by the attack, discuss Trump’s lack of action as it unfolded and do a final presentation on the legal issues involved.
The message comes amid concerns that the Trump-supporting extremists who raided the Capitol to stop the certification of Joe Biden as the next president, have supporters in the armed forces and law enforcement.
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