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Donald Trump has become the first president in US history to be impeached twice. As per ABC News, the vote was passed today by the House of Representatives with the count currently standing at 225-194. The president has been charged with one article of impeachment for "incitement of insurrection" for…
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The House is moving forward with a historic impeachment vote against Donald Trump a week after a violent mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol building. As per CBS News, if the vote goes through successfully, it will mean make Trump the only president in US history to have been…
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A lawyer for the Trump supporter pictured carrying a lectern out of the Capitol Building has told news reporters: "I'm not a magician". Thirty-six-year-old Adam Johnson, who hails from Parrish in Florida, was featured in a number of photos of the Capitol riot last week, after he joined a mob…
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Melania Trump has been criticized for her "tone deaf" response to the recent Capitol riots. On Wednesday, January 6, pro-Trump protestors stormed the Capitol building in Washington DC and disrupted the ceremonial counting of the Electoral College votes. The rioters then clashed with riot police, and Congress was halted while…
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Chris Evans is facing backlash online for his tweets during the Capitol riots last Wednesday (January 6). The Captain America star posted a series of tweets about the events as they unfolded at the White House, which would have been unsurprising for fans of the actor who know that he…
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Jacob Chansley, the horned Capitol protestor known by the moniker "QAnon Shaman", reportedly hasn't eaten since Friday because his jail won't serve him organic food, his mom has revealed. Chansley (who also goes by the name Jake Angeli) inadvertently became an iconic symbol of the Capitol riot last week, after…
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Twitter has announced that they have removed upwards of 70,000 QAnon accounts in the wake of the Capitol riot last Wednesday (January 6). The social media website has also limited the accounts that have engaged with the content of the deleted accounts and deployed technology to surface "potentially harmful tweets…
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A Republican lawmaker who live-streamed himself storming the Capitol last week has now resigned from his post. According to BuzzFeed News, West Virginia lawmaker Derrick Evans - who is now facing criminal charges - filmed himself participating in the pro-Trump riots on the evening of Wednesday, January 6. Per CNN,…
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US President Donald Trump has declared a state of emergency in Washington, D.C., following last week's riot in the Capitol Building. The announcement comes a little over a week ahead of President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration on January 20. On Wednesday, January 6, a mob of pro-Trump protestors stormed the Capitol…
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An investigation has been launched by wildlife officials after a manatee was reportedly discovered with the word "TRUMP" written on its body. Officials with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Florida’s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission opened the investigation after the animal was seen by several witnesses in the…
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Nicholas Ochs, the leader of the alt-right Proud Boys movement in Hawaii, has been arrested as a direct result of his involvement in the Capitol riots, after posting pictures of himself in the building on social media. Per the Daily Mail, Och shared an image of himself with his 1,000+…
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Parler, the American social media network that has become a preferred platform by some conservatives, has been shut down after losing total Amazon support in the aftermath of the Capitol riots. Per BBC News, the app and social media service had been reliant on Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing…
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First Lady Melania Trump has said in an official statement that she was "disappointed" by the violence that erupted during the pro-Trump Capitol riots last week. On Wednesday, January 6, a mob of pro-Trump protestors broke into the Capitol building and disrupted the ceremonial counting of the Electoral College votes…
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Arnold Schwarzenegger has said that the soon-to-be-former President Trump will go down as the worst president in history. The former governor of California made the statement on Twitter as he recalled growing up in Austria in the wake of World War Two and the long-term impact of the Night of…
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The Capitol rioter who was pictured hanging from the Senate balcony and sitting in Nancy Pelosi's chair has issued a statement begging for forgiveness. Josiah Colt, 34, from Boise, Idaho, said that he got "caught up in the moment" and that he had no intention of his actions putting a "stain…
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People are calling for Donald Trump's cameo in Home Alone 2 to be removed after the soon-to-be-former president was permanently banned from Twitter. In the classic 1992 holiday movie, Trump, now 74, appears to give Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) directions on how to get to the hotel lobby after he…
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Dominion Voting Systems has filed a defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump's lawyer Sidney Powell on Friday (January 8) over claims of electoral fraud. Describing the claims as "wild accusations", the Associated Press (AP) reports, the company asserted that they did not rig the election in favor of Joe Biden. "Dominion…
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A number of Americans who participated in the Capitol riots on January 6 have been fired after being publically identified. A mob of pro-Trump protestors attempted to obstruct the ceremonial counting of the Electoral College votes, and the affirmation of President-Elect Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 US Presidential Election.…
