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Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | The United States fell into a state of shock and shame exactly one year ago when an angry mob broke into the Capitol and interrupted proceedings to certify results of the 2020 presidential election. Broken glass, damaged statues, and vandalized offices inside the “seat of American …

Washington, US | Xinhua | Republicans are locking in newly gerrymandered maps for the legislatures in several U.S. battleground states, The New York Times wrote in a report published recently. “In Texas, North Carolina, Ohio and Georgia, Republican state lawmakers have either created supermajorities capable of overriding a governor’s veto …

The battle illustrates the continuing contentiousness surrounding COVID and how government officials are trying to reduce its spread Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | A U.S. federal appeals court over the weekend temporarily blocked the White House’s vaccine mandate for businesses with 100 or more employees, raising concerns over whether more challenges …

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | Negotiations over U.S. President Joe Biden’s 3.5-trillion-U.S.-dollar spending bill have hit a “stalemate,” leaving the fate of his entire first-term agenda up in the air. The president on Friday said negotiations have hit a deadlock amid heated disagreements between progressives and moderates in his party, which …

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday called on Republican lawmakers to join Democrats in passing the federal legislation that will protect Americans’ right to vote, given a cascade of restrictive voting laws have been enacted in Republican-controlled states. Delivering an impassioned speech in Philadelphia, the president …

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has introduced a resolution that will form a select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection on Capitol Hill, a resolution that is expected to get a vote in the Democratic-controlled chamber later this week. According to the resolution, the committee …

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | Former U.S. President Donald Trump has returned to the spotlight, underscoring the possibility that the bombastic billionaire will make a run at the White House in the next U.S. elections. On Monday’s Varney & Co. on Fox Business News, Trump spoke on a wide range of …

Biden is proposing a massive package of around 4.1 trillion dollars Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | U.S. President Joe Biden intends to pass two spending plans worth over 4 trillion U.S. dollars, but Republicans are blasting the package as wasteful and overpriced. Biden is proposing a massive package that includes infrastructure and …

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | U.S. House Republicans on Friday morning voted for former President Donald Trump’s staunch defender Elise Stefanik to fill the No. 3 House GOP leadership position of conference chair. Publicly supported by Trump and top House Republican leaders, Stefanik was elected on a 134-46 vote. The voting came …

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | U.S. President Joe Biden said late Saturday that though most Republican senators voted to acquit former President Donald Trump of inciting insurrection leading to the deadly violence on Capitol on Jan. 6, the “substance of the charge” in the impeachment trial was not in dispute. “While …