President Trump was impeached for inciting his supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol. The violence and its aftermath will be an enduring symbol of his four years in the White House.
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Elvert Barnes/FlickrThe challenges facing the new president and the political landscape the old one leaves behind. -
Jennifer Worsham/WFAEMayor Vi Lyles starts the year presiding over a very busy Charlotte City Council faced with questions involving not only the city but the council itself. We’ll go through all that and get her reaction to the violence earlier this month in Washington, D.C.
LATEST NEWS
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The president-elect was joined by Vice President-elect Harris and a bipartisan group of congressional leaders at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, D.C.
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The City Council on Tuesday approved a process to replace former at-large council member James Mitchell, who resigned last week.
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The flags represent people from all 50 states, the five U.S. territories and Washington, D.C., who cannot attend because of the coronavirus pandemic and tight security in the nation's capital.
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As Joe Biden is inaugurated, he is hoping to bring America together. But the country's modern divisions didn't begin and end with Trump.
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Bannon and Lil Wayne were two of dozens of people granted clemency by Trump just hours before his terms comes to a close.
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Members of the Trump administration won't have to wait five years before lobbying the agencies where they worked. Trump had been highly critical of former President Clinton for a similar reversal.
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When he gets into the Oval Office, President- elect Joe Biden plans to sign 17 executive actions on priorities like COVID-19, climate, racial justice — and rolling back Trump rules.
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Biden will send Congress a proposal that that would protect millions people from deportation, marking a dramatic turn from President Trump's hardline immigration tack.
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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will be sworn in as president and vice president of the United States on Wednesday. Follow live special coverage throughout the day, beginning at 11 a.m. ET.
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Officials launched a probe into Burr's business dealings after the senator warned a group of constituents in February to prepare for the coronavirus then sold off $1.7 million in stocks.
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President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration has been largely downsized because of the coronavirus pandemic and security concerns after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
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The outgoing president vowed to continue the movement he launched among fervent supporters of his "Make America Great Again" agenda.
PRO-TRUMP PROTESTS & ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL
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The Senate majority leader's remarks are his strongest against the president since the Jan. 6 riot.
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John Locke FoundationIn an interview with the John Locke Foundation, Thom Tillis said he hasn't read the article of impeachment against President Trump, and didn't say how he will vote.
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Eight alleged members of extremist groups were charged in the past week in connection with the Jan. 6 siege at the U.S. Capitol.
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Blink O'fanaye/FLICKRThe FBI has filed a criminal complaint against a South Carolina man who who authorities say was photographed storming the U.S. Capitol earlier this month.
BIDEN WHITE HOUSE TRANSITION UPDATES
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At her confirmation hearing Tuesday, Treasury Secretary designate Janet Yellen warned that without more federal help, the recession would last longer and be more painful than necessary.
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"Humility and confidence should be the flip sides of America's leadership coin," Blinken will testify at his Senate confirmation hearing, vowing to work for the "greater good."
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Dr. Rachel Levine is currently the secretary of health in Pennsylvania, where she leads the state's fight against COVID-19.
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The Senate returns for the first time since the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. Five committees will question nominees to lead Defense, State, Homeland Security, Treasury and the top Intelligence post.
CORONAVIRUS
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NPRView NPR's maps and graphics to see where COVID-19 is hitting hardest in the U.S., which state outbreaks are growing and which are leveling off.
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"Sharing grief brings people together," says historian Micki McElya. The ceremony in Washington, D.C., Tuesday is the most prominent memorial so far to the victims of COVID-19.
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Travis Long/tlong@newsobserver.com/The News & Observer, via APGov. Roy Cooper and health Secretary Mandy Cohen visited UNC-Chapel Hill’s Friday Center as UNC plans to vaccinate 10,000 people at that and more than a dozen other locations across the state this week.
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Although vaccination has begun, this winter has been the deadliest season of the pandemic. The U.S. death toll jumped from 300,000 to 400,000 in just five weeks.
LATEST PODCAST EPISODES
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Charlotte-based band Moa made the most out of 2020. From contributing an original song to the Netflix true crime documentary “Night Stalker” to hosting an eye-catching virtual performance at Charlotte’s Neighborhood Theatre and releasing a hauntingly beautiful debut album, the four-piece ambient music group created sparks in a year of darkness.
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Andra Gillespie is director of the James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference at Emory University in Atlanta. Gillespie writes and teaches about race and American politics. As you can imagine, these past four years she’s been busy. In the latest SouthBound, she talks about our current world of politics and where we're headed from here.
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