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Maxine Waters: Trump must be ‘stopped dead in his tracks, however we can do it’

Rep. Maxine Waters, California Democrat, said Friday that President Trump "has got to be stopped dead in his tracks," either by impeachment or having him stripped of the powers of his office via the 25th Amendment to the Constitution.

January 8, 2021

Xi Jinping, Chinese president, wins 2020 ‘climate hypocrite’ award for green talk, coal action

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday was named 2020 "Climate Hypocrite of the Year" by British skeptics for touting the Paris agreement and encouraging global emissions reductions even as China fires up new coal plants.

January 8, 2021

Marco Rubio rebukes Joe Biden for stoking tensions with Black Lives Matter comments

Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, on Thursday chided President-elect Joseph R. Biden for heightening political tensions in the aftermath of the siege by a pro-Trump mob on the U.S. Capitol.

January 7, 2021

Lee Zeldin rips Democrats’ ‘double standards’ on violence

The protest siege on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob met Thursday with widespread bipartisan condemnation, a show of unified outrage that Republicans said would have been nice last year when leftist hordes were looting and burning major U.S. cities.

January 7, 2021

Joe Manchin looms as key swing vote with Democrats poised to take Senate

West Virginian Joe Manchin calls himself a "moderate conservative Democrat" is poised to become the crucial swing vote in the evenly split Senate, and the last line of defense against a progressive leftist agenda, thanks to the apparent double-Democratic victory in the Georgia Senate runoff.

January 6, 2021

Andrew Wheeler, EPA secret science rule ripped for attempting to ding Biden

The Trump administration delivered an eleventh-hour blow to the regulatory state Tuesday by finalizing a scientific transparency rule requiring the Environmental Protection Agency to back up its mandates with publicly available data.

January 5, 2021

Emanuel Cleaver defends ‘a-woman’ prayer as tribute women in Congress

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, Missouri Democrat, defended Tuesday his decision to end the opening House prayer with "a-woman," calling it a "lighthearted pun" and a reference to the record number of women in Congress.

January 5, 2021

Andrew Wheeler, EPA chief, rips ‘activists masquerading as environmental reporters’ for ‘agenda’

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler took a parting shot Tuesday at media bias, accusing some journalists covering the agency of being "environmental activists masquerading as environmental reporters."

January 5, 2021

Josh Hawley blasts ‘Antifa scumbags’ who held protest at his home with wife, baby inside

Sen. Josh Hawley, Missouri Republican, accused "Antifa scumbags" of terrorizing his wife and newborn baby with a noisy protest outside his home Monday night over his plan to object to the Electoral College certification.

January 5, 2021

Donald Trump Jr. blasts ‘insane’ House Democratic prayer ending with ‘amen and a-woman’

Donald Trump Jr. weighed in Monday on House Democrats' "amen and a-woman" prayer, calling it "insane."

January 4, 2021

Raphael Warnock staffers say he wants to defund the police in Project Veritas sting

No election would be complete without a Project Veritas undercover expose of campaign staffers saying things in private that they would never say in public, and that includes the Georgia Senate runoff.

January 4, 2021

David Perdue backs Republicans objecting to election certification over ‘huge irregularities’

Sen. David Perdue, Georgia Republican, has sided with Republicans planning to object to the presidential electoral certification Wednesday, calling it the last chance for lawmakers to get to the bottom of the "huge irregularities" in the 2020 race.

January 4, 2021

House Democrats open 117th Congress with prayer ending ‘amen and a-woman’

The 117th Congress kicked off with a fresh controversy Sunday when the Democrat delivering the opening prayer concluded by saying "amen," and then added "a-woman."

January 3, 2021

Ted Cruz warns of ‘generational damage’ in Georgia

They outperformed expectations in the 2020 Senate, House and state legislative races, but Republicans have found themselves in the fight of their lives with Tuesday's Georgia Senate runoffs, a contest that they warn could keep Democrats in power indefinitely.

January 3, 2021

Andrew Cuomo opens Bills game, not restaurants

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is facing accusations of pandemic hypocrisy for revamping his public-health order to allow fans at next week's Buffalo Bills playoff game while keeping a lid on the state's struggling restaurants.

January 3, 2021

Sen. Ted Cruz to Democrats calling for his arrest over election audit: ‘Calm down’

Sen. Ted Cruz had a message for Democrats suggesting the Texas Republican should be tried for treason for calling for an emergency election audit: Calm down.

January 3, 2021

Sen. Kelly Loeffler: ‘We won’t get a second chance’ if Democrats win Georgia Senate races

Sen. Kelly Loeffler warned that if Democrats take control of the federal government, they will change the rules to prevent another party from ever taking power again.

January 3, 2021

CNN’s Tapper calls out Jon Ossoff for smear about Kelly Loeffler: ‘That wasn’t true’

Jake Tapper called out Jon Ossoff for repeatedly accusing Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler of campaigning with a Klansman during the Georgia Senate runoff election.

January 3, 2021

Surgeon general optimistic despite ‘pretty scary’ virus death projections

U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams said Sunday that projections of post-holiday novel coronavirus deaths are "pretty scary," but expressed optimism that the situation will improve.

January 3, 2021

Pelosi faces tight House speaker vote amid more Republicans, progressives

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi faces a tight vote for another two years atop the leadership with a smaller Democratic majority.

January 3, 2021