President-elect Joe Biden plans to release nearly all available doses of the COVID-19 vaccines after he takes office, a spokesperson said Friday. “The president-elect believes we must accelerate distribution of the vaccine while continuing to ensure the Americans who need it most get it as soon as possible,” T.J. Ducklo, a spokesman for the transition…
Biden Plans to Release Almost All COVID-19 Vaccine Doses After Taking Office
Speaker Pelosi Orders US Capitol Flags at Half-Staff to Honor Officer Sicknick
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) ordered flags on Capitol Hill to fly at half-staff in honor of Brian Sicknick, the officer who died because of an injury sustained while protecting the Capitol building from protestors on Wednesday. “I have ordered the flags at the Capitol lowered to half-staff in Officer Sicknick’s honor. The sacrifice of…
Man Who Witnessed Ashli Babbitt Shooting Recounts the Tragedy
A man in a widely circulated video of the shooting of U.S. Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt in the Capitol, 28-year-old Thomas Baranyi, gave a recount of what happened. A reporter from CBS affiliate WKRG interviewed him after he stormed the Capitol with protestors and Ashli Babbitt, the woman who was shot and killed by police. The…
Trump Says He Won’t Attend Biden’s Inauguration
President Donald Trump said on Jan. 8 that he will not attend the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. “To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th,” the president wrote on Twitter. Trump made the announcement one day after Congress certified Biden as the winner of…
Dominion Voting Systems Files Defamation Lawsuit Against Sidney Powell
Dominion Voting Systems on Friday sued lawyer Sidney Powell, alleging she defamed the company. Powell made a series of “wild accusations” that are “demonstrably false,” Dominion said in its lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. That included claims that Dominion rigged the 2020 election and that the…
Trump Attorney Overseeing Pennsylvania Lawsuit Quits, Cites Breach of Capitol
A lawyer for President Donald Trump’s campaign moved Thursday to resign from a case in Pennsylvania, citing the storming of the U.S. Capitol the day prior. Jerome Marcus announced the action in a court filing (pdf). He said he was asking to withdraw as counsel for the case pursuant to the Pennsylvania Rule of Professional Conduct…
Sen. Loeffler Concedes to Raphael Warnock in Georgia Runoff
Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) on Thursday announced she was conceding to Raphael Warnock in the Senate runoff race for Georgia’s special election. “I want to thank every Georgian and every single American who believed in me and our campaign. We accomplished so much in a short time, from delivering relief to hardworking Georgians during this…
Pelosi and Schumer Say They Have Not Heard From Pence on 25th Amendment
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on Jan. 7 they have not heard from Vice President Mike Pence after calling him and urging him to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Donald Trump from office. Their phone call to Pence comes after thousands of protestors, including a small group of rioters, stormed Capitol on Wednesday and clashed with…
Black Lives Matter Activist Took Part in Storming of Capitol
A Black Lives Matter activist was part of the group that entered the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. John Earle Sullivan, who has advocated for an armed revolution on social media, was arrested in July 2020 for making a threat of violence and criminal mischief. He organized a protest with Black Lives Matter activists and members…
Trump Ends Georgia Lawsuits Challenging Election Results
President Donald Trump’s legal team has voluntarily ended multiple lawsuits seeking to challenge the 2020 election results in the state of Georgia. Lawyers for the Trump campaign in two cases, in which the president was the plaintiff, filed notices for voluntary dismissal, saying that they requested the courts to dismiss the cases due to “an…
US News
RSS Error: A feed could not be found at `https://www.theepochtimes.com/c-us/feed`; the status code is `200` and content-type is `text/html; charset=utf-8`