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Rep. Adam Kinsinger became the first Republican in Congress to call for the removal of Donald Trump via the 25th Amendment. Other GOP leaders have also discussed the option of removing Trump from office either through a quick impeachment or invoking the 25th Amendment. Cabinet members are said to be having “informal” discussions about removing Trump.
In the end, it’s going to be up to the cabinet and Vice President Pence on whether the 25th is invoked. A majority of the cabinet would have to vote in favor of removing the president and Pence would have to agree before the process of removing Trump could even begin.
Have Covid and brutality killed Hong Kong s pro-democracy movement?
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By: Richard Lloyd Parry It was in November last year that I first met Spider-Man; then, as now, he looked nothing like a superhero. I found him at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the narrow campus in central Hong Kong where a tumultuous confrontation was taking place.
Looking back more than a year later, it was the climax of the democracy struggle. Everything that had happened since the summer led up to it; everything that happened since has trailed away.
None of this was obvious at the time. One thousand protesting students armed with bows, arrows and firebombs had occupied the campus, a city block of multi-storey buildings, courtyards and staircases, besieged by an encircling army of riot police. For two days, they had kept them at bay with their barricades and stones fired from giant makeshift catapults. And now the battle was turning.
Texas ranked second in the nation with $770 million in PPE purchase orders, according to a KHOU 11 analysis of Texas Division of Emergency Management data.
Texas PPE orders reveal roller coaster pricing early in pandemic
From March to June, Texas ranked second in the nation with $770 million in PPE purchase orders, according to data. Author: Jeremy Rogalski Updated: 8:40 PM CST December 28, 2020
HOUSTON In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the scramble to secure hard-to-get personal protective equipment resulted in the State of Texas ordering items at wildly fluctuating prices, sometimes double, triple or more than ten times normal market value.
From March to June, Texas ranked second in the nation with $770 million in PPE purchase orders, according to a KHOU 11 analysis of Texas Division of Emergency Management data obtained through open records requests by the Associated Press.