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Month: February 2021

The world watches, stunned as Trump is cleared

The whole world watched the second impeachment of former US President Donald Trump and his acquittal. In many cases, if media coverage is an indication, the global audience paid rapt attention. The BBC was one of many outlets that carried the Senate proceedings live. France24 television broadcast much of the proceedings on their English and

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Plaskett on Trump’s acquittal: ‘We didn’t need more witnesses, we needed more senators with spines’

Del. Stacey Plaskett on Sunday defended the Democratic House managers’ decision not to call witnesses in former President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial, saying a day after Trump’s acquittal that they “needed more senators with spines” in order to convict him. “I know that people are feeling a lot of angst and believe that maybe

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Nuevo gobierno se acerca a UABC

Tres días de duelo nacional por el fallecimiento del expresidente Carlos Menem

(CNN Español) — Alberto Fernández, presidente de Argentina, decretó tres días de duelo nacional a partir de este domingo tras el fallecimiento del exmandatario Carlos Menem, según un comunicado de la Casa Rosada. Fernández había lamentado el fallecimiento del exmandatario con un mensaje en su cuenta de Twitter y envió condolencias a su familia. Con

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The one thing impeachment accomplished

On March 2, 1797, President George Washington wrote a letter comparing himself to a “wearied traveler who sees a resting place, and is bending his body to lean thereon.” The idea of retiring after his controversy-filled second term was “most grateful to my soul,” Washington confided to his former secretary of war, Henry Knox. “Tomorrow,

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