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US Capitol riot panel votes to hold Trump ally Bannon in criminal contempt
Lawmakers investigating the deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol voted unanimously on Oct. 19 to pursue criminal contempt charges for a key ally of former president Donald Trump for refusing to testify.
Former White House advisor Steve Bannon failed to comply with a subpoena to appear before the cross-party January 6 congressional select committee on Thursday last week.
Biden: "Putin is a killer. He will pay a price"
US Intelligence claim Putin personally intervened against Biden’s candidacy in the recent elections
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Pelosi says House will impeach Trump, pushes VP to oust him
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House will proceed with legislation to impeach President Donald Trump as she pushes the vice president and the Cabinet to invoke constitutional authority force him out, warning that Trump is a threat to democracy after the deadly assault on the Capitol.
Twitter bans Trump, citing risk of violent incitement
Twitter banned President Donald Trump's account on Jan. 8, citing "the risk of further incitement of violence" following the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.
Invasion to the Capitol: One in five Americans supports it
Republicans say that Trump has done nothing to be blamed for
US: Trump Pardons Some of His Close Associates in His Last Days as President
US President Donald Trump has pardoned his former campaign manager Paul Manafort, ex-adviser Roger Stone and the father of Mr Trump's son-in-law.
Mr Manafort was convicted in 2018 in an investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US election.
Mr Trump had previously commuted the prison sentence of Mr Stone, who was convicted of lying to Congress.
New round of Trump clemency benefits Manafort, other allies
President Donald Trump pardoned more than two dozen people, including former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Charles Kushner, the father of his son-in-law, in the latest wave of clemency to benefit longtime associates and supporters.
Trump threatens military force against protesters nationwide
Wielding extraordinary federal authority, President Donald Trump threatened the nation's governors on June 1 that he would deploy the military to states if they did not stamp out violent protests over police brutality that have roiled the nation over the past week.
Trump's War Against Social Media
President Donald Trump said he will introduce legislation that may scrap or weaken a law that has protected internet companies, including Twitter and Facebook, in an extraordinary attempt to regulate social media platforms where he has been criticized.
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Trump threatens social media after Twitter fact-checks him
President Donald Trump on May 27 threatened social media companies with new regulation or even shuttering a day after Twitter added fact checks to two of his tweets.
The president can't unilaterally regulate or close the companies, which would require action by Congress or the Federal Communications Commission. But that didn't stop Trump from angrily issuing a strong warning.