Former President Donald Trump's legal defense team refused an offer from Democrat lawmakers for Trump to testify at his impeachment hearing set for the week of Feb. 8 and called the offer a "public relations stunt."
Smartmatic, a company that makes voting machines used in the US and elsewhere, has filed a defamation lawsuit on Thursday against Fox Corporation and three of its anchors.
Trump is not required by law to make an appearance at his own impeachment trial
"I write to you today regarding the so-called Disciplinary Committee hearing aimed at revoking my union membership. Who cares!"
House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler reportedly shutdown the suggestion by Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz to recite the Pledge of Allegiance before the Senate impeachment hearings.
The Republican-controlled State Legislature in Wisconsin has voted to overturn and repeal the statewide mask mandate bill put in place by Democratic Governor Tony Evers.
The Israeli company Enlivex Therapeutics announced the trial results for their drug Allocetra on Wednesday.
On Jan. 29, Moderna advised the Canadian government that they would only be able to fulfill 78 percent of Canada's order for vaccines for early February.
The House of Representatives voted to advance the resolution to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) from her House committee assignments. The final 230-199 vote went down Thursday night. Eleven Republicans voting in favour.
After Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Capitol Hill riot exaggerations backfired, the young lawmaker has now likened herself to war veterans who have experienced trauma on the front lines.
"The choices are to pull out, to barricade ourselves, to divide, to further polarize and say out of protest we're not going to go, or to engage and be part of a conversation, to amplify voices, to speak our mind on things that are important to us and to participate in the Games."
The policy would force big tech companies such as Facebook and Google to pay a share of their advertising revenue to news outlets that are shared on their sites. It would also force such companies to be non-discriminatory in their treatment of news outlets under the penalty of fines.
The attack reportedly took place at the Orthodox Maryam Tsiyon Church in Aksum as part of ongoing civil unrest in the country.
They also suggested that there may be more layoffs to come, although they also noted that some of the layoffs are temporary.
It has been revealed that a subsidiary of Simon and Schuster called Gallery Books signed a secret deal with Hunter Biden in late 2019 to write and publish his memoirs.