Trump impeachment article to be sent to US Senate today
The impeachment trial is scheduled for the second week of February.
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The impeachment trial is scheduled for the second week of February.
A charge of incitement of insurrection is being brought against the former president.
Nancy Pelosi said there was “strong interest” in Congress for a 9/11-style investigation of the attack on the Capitol.
It would be the first time a US president had been impeached twice.
Pelosi told Democrats that she was prepared to launch impeachment proceedings against Trump if he does not voluntarily resign.
Donald Trump is to leave the White House to attend a medical centre after testing positive for Covid-19.
Biden has said that rushing a nominee to replace Ruth Bader Ginsberg through the Senate before the election would be an “abuse of power”.
US President Donald Trump blocked funds to the US Postal Service amid concerns about the delays to the postal voting system.
Members of the party knelt for eight minutes and 46 seconds before a sitting of Congress today.
Varadkar said her standpoint during a testing time in the Brexit negotiations “was timely, invaluable, and made a huge difference”.
The US President declared America is “stronger than ever before” in his State of the Union address.
Senior Democrats Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler will lead the team in the Senate impeachment hearing.
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he expects the House of Representatives to send the articles of impeachment through to the upper chamber tomorrow.
The Democrats bowed to pressure on impeachment, but will it make a difference to the 2020 result?
“We think her case is going nowhere,” said Marc Short, chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence.
The speech will take place in the US House of Representatives.
The start date for the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump is up in the air.
Trump would become only the third US president to be impeached.
In a letter sent on the eve of his expected impeachment, the US President has maintained that he did nothing wrong.
Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi made the announcement this afternoon.
Democrats and Republicans clashed during the impeachment hearing.
The Armenians say the mass killings of their people from 1915 to 1917 amounted to genocide, a claim recognised by some 30 countries.
The impeachment story is complex and fast moving. We’ve broken down the key events.
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a formal impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump yesterday.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will make the announcement later this evening.
Pelosi said the Good Friday Agreement needed to be protected, and was “a beacon of hope for the entire world”.
The social media giant has been criticised after altered footage of Pelosi was posted online this week.
The US President stormed out of a meeting with Democrats saying they must stop investigating.
She repeated that a US-US trade deal is off the table post-Brexit if the Good Friday Accord is compromised.
“The Good Friday accord ended 700-years of conflict,” she told the London School of Economics last night.
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, will address the Dáil this week.
Ilhan Omar has drawn criticism for referring to the 9/11 attacks as “some people did something”.
Brexit and US visas are expected to be the among the topics that will be discussed.
It is understood the visit is part of a fresh push to get the E3 Visa Bill over the line in the US.
Christopher Paul Hasson was arrested by police last Friday on gun and drug charges.
Meanwhile, The White House has identified more than $7 billion in potential funds for US President Donald Trump’s border wall.
Top Democrat Nancy Pelosi has effectively blocked Trump from giving his State of the Union address.
Top Democrat Nancy Pelosi yesterday called Trump’s deal a “non-starter”.
In a letter to Pelosi, Trump said that due to the shutdown a trip to Egypt, Brussels and Afghanistan would be delayed.
Pelosi says that the shutdown has meant that the Secret Service cannot plan properly.