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Speaker says urgent bill to halt postal cuts will be put to House to combat Trump’s ‘threat’ to democracy Speaker Nancy Pelosi is recalling the US House of Representatives early from its summer recess in a bid to protect the US Postal Service from efforts to block funding and suppress mail-in voting in November’s election.Several states were also considering taking legal action to stop...

Politicians return to Washington for possible rollcall vote as Kentucky Republican threatens to hold up passage of stimulus billMembers of Congress are racing back to Washington, despite social isolation guidelines, out of fear that a lawmaker could delay a Friday vote on the $2.2tn economic stimulus package designed to rush federal aid to workers, businesses and a healthcare system ravaged by the coronavirus. Related:...

President turned speech into a screed against investigations into his administration and railed against DemocratsDonald Trump delivered a triumphalist, mocking, vitriolic and vulgar speech in the White House on Thursday afternoon in celebration of the acquittal at his impeachment trial the night before in the US Senate.In ebullient mood, the US president held up the front page of the Washington Post with the headline...

Trump heads to Florida for the holidays as Senate adjourned until January without agreeing to impeachment trial proceduresNancy Pelosi promised as speaker she would “show the power of the gavel”. This year, she laid it out for all to see.The past week alone, the Democratic leader delivered a $1.4tn government funding package to stop a shutdown, pushed through the bipartisan US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement, and...

Nancy Pelosi said senior lawmakers witnessed Trump having a 'meltdown' after nearly two-thirds of the House GOP caucus voted to condemn his decision to withdraw US troops from northern Syria. Leaving a White House meeting on the situation in Syria, Senator Chuck Schumer said that Trump was disrespectful to Pelosi, calling her a 'third-rate politician', and alleged Trump had no plan on how to contain Isis now Continue reading...

Nancy Pelosi started her weekly press conference by directly addressing the release of the whistleblower complaint. Recounting the whistleblower’s allegations that the White House tried to keep details of the Ukraine call from becoming public, the House speaker said: ‘This is a cover-up.’ Pelosi also explained her thinking behind deciding to launch a formal impeachment inquiry against Trump: ’Last week we saw something that removed all...

Bank says in redacted court document it has at least some of Trump’s returns, which House Democrats have sought for months Sign up to the US briefing and get a new perspective 1.11am BST That’s all for today. 12.30am BST Joe Biden said that racism in the US is a “white man’s problem visited on people of color.”Taking aim at incendiary racial appeals by...

Trump: Ratcliffe ‘treated very unfairly by LameStream Media’Majority of House Democrats favor impeachment inquirySign up for the US briefing and get a new perspective 11.10pm BST The Trump administration has warned the UK that the US will not sign a new trade deal with its longtime ally unless the UK drops plans to tax American tech companies, according to the Telegraph. Per the report:...