Joe Biden

Trump has flirted with the idea of running for the White House again in 2024.

It concluded as expected with a majority of Republicans declaring him not guilty, in a sign of the powerful grip the 74-year-old Trump continues to exert on his party.

Migrants in Mexico hoping to reach the US welcomed the policy change in Washington.

Unlike Trump's first impeachment trial a year ago, which took three weeks, this one is expected to be over within days.

Bitcoin briefly pushed to a record-high of $48,215.83 after winning a huge boost Monday from news that Elon Musk's electric carmaker Tesla had invested $1.5 billion in the cryptocurrency.

If Trump were convicted, the Senate would then hold a simple-majority vote on barring him from future public office.

The proceedings will take place in the very Senate chamber that was raided by rioters, threatening the lives of lawmakers in an effort to stop the ceremonial certification of Biden's election victory.

Biden's efforts received a big endorsement, when IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva offered her support for the plan, and rejected the notion it was excessive.

The Democratic House prosecutors, or impeachment managers, say the Republican leader was "singularly responsible" for the Capitol attack, which left five dead.

First ladies have the odd position of being married to the most powerful man in the country but without a formal public role.

The Russian foreign ministry welcomed the extension of New START and said it hoped Biden was turning the page on the "destructive US policy" of ending arms control measures.

Trump, who left the White House for Florida before Joe Biden's inauguration, has vowed to stay active in politics in some form.

Environmentalists have called for the US to set a goal of reducing 2030 emissions by up to 50 percent compared to 2005.

On Wednesday, daily global deaths from Covid-19 topped 18,000 for the first time.

The biggest driver of the market rally in recent weeks has been hope for Biden's $1.9 trillion economic rescue plan.

The proposal has a $15 minimum wage, a third round of $1,400 checks and extensions to federal protections

In the world's worst-hit country, US President Joe Biden warned America's death toll could pass 600,000.

Johnson also praised Biden for joining the Covax initiative, a global pool of coronavirus vaccine doses for poorer nations.

The picture of the Duke of Sussex was clicked in 2013, when he visited the United States as a senior royal.

Investors worldwide appear to have set aside concerns over the pandemic for now, though it continues to cast a shadow as governments in some countries keep lockdowns in place.

Harris, 56, enters the post having already forged a unique path, as California's first Black attorney general and the first woman of South Asian heritage elected to the US Senate.

The United States has already suffered more than 400,000 deaths -- almost one fifth of the global toll -- since the epidemic took hold early last year.

Biden, who has vowed a major escalation in the nation's Covid vaccination drive, warned that the "toughest and deadliest period" was still ahead.

He urged Americans to "unify" following the Capitol riot

The US on Tuesday recorded another 2,482 deaths due to the virus, according to Johns Hopkins University's tally.

According to US media, one of Trump's final actions could be announced Tuesday at the latest: scores of pardons for convicted criminals.

The new round of payments will include dependents over the age of 17

Plans for the inauguration -- in normal times a bracing, even joyous, tribute to peaceful transition -- had already been scaled down out of pandemic concerns.

Until vaccination is widespread, countries across the globe are still having to rely on lockdowns, curfews and social distancing to control the spread of the virus.

Dubbed the American Rescue Plan, the proposal released Thursday includes a host of measures aimed at revitalizing the world's largest economy.