• Trump repeatedly and falsely claimed he had won the election and summoned his supporters to Washington on January 6 for a rally that coincided with the certification of the results by Congress.

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• The development was made after he posted a depiction of a man resembling the former US president playing golf in the shadow of a warplane or large drone.
• The tweet from Ayatollah Khamenei's account refers to General Qasem Soleimani, who was assassinated by a US drone in Baghdad a year ago.

• The Twitter account of Iran’s Supreme Leader on Friday carried the image of a golfer resembling former President Donald Trump apparently being targeted by a drone, vowing revenge over the killing of a top Iranian general in a U.S. drone attack.
• The post carried the text of remarks by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in December, in which he said “Revenge is certain”.

• "The idea that you can get up here and talk about what you know. What the evidence, what the science is, and know that's it -- let the science speak -- it is somewhat of a liberating feeling."

• In the Senate, the two parties are split 50-50, with a tie-break vote by the new vice president giving Democrats the most razor-thin of margins.

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• President Donald Trump has been largely out of the public eye since his supporters rampaged through Congress on January 6, triggering his historic second impeachment a week later.

• Law enforcement officers far outnumbered protesters at state capitol grounds on Sunday, as few Trump supporters who believe the president’s false claim that he won the 2020 election turned out.
• Some militias and extremist groups told followers to stay home, citing the increased security or the risk that the planned events were law-enforcement traps.

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• Trump had wanted to join the thousands of hardcore followers who assembled at Capitol Hill on Jan. 6.
• Trump’s fiery, grievance-filled speech from the Ellipse park on the southern outskirts of the White House was a central focus of this week’s hastily arranged proceedings in the House of Representatives that led to his impeachment on a charge of inciting insurrection.

• With at least five Republicans joining their push to impeach President Donald Trump over the storming of the U.S. Capitol, Democrats in the House of Representatives stood poised for a history-making vote to try to remove the president from office.
• That would trigger a trial in the still Republican-controlled Senate, although it was unclear whether enough time or political appetite remained to expel Trump.

• "I do not believe that such a course of action is in the best interest of our nation," Pence wrote in a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi shortly before the House was set to vote on a measure calling on Pence to use the amendment to strip Trump of power.

• Trump would become the first U.S. president to be impeached twice if the House of Representatives votes in favor of impeachment on Wednesday.
  • The president did not answer a question about whether he would resign.

• The problem is that, for now, the green light has temporarily given way to a state of investors' political angst.

• Parler, which launched in 2018, operates much like Twitter, with profiles to follow and "parleys" instead of tweets.

• Over half of surveyed Americans in a new poll have indicated that they believe that President Trump should be removed from office, following the attack on the Capitol by his supporters.
• 56 percent polled in favour of the removal of President Trump from office, while 67 percent polled that the outgoing President deserves a significant degree of the blame for the rioting that took place in the Capitol.

• He was acquitted by the Republican-majority Senate.

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• “There is no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation, and it is the inflection point for me,” Elaine Chao wrote.
• With less than two weeks left of Trump’s presidency, many aides were already heading for the door, making some of their resignations symbolic gestures.

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• “You don’t concede when there’s theft involved,” Trump, a Republican, said after taking the stage following a playlist blasted over loudspeakers of power ballads by Elton John and Phil Collins. “Our country has had enough and we will not take it any more.”

• A 10-strong team was due to arrive in China this week after months of painstaking negotiations.
• Beijing is determined to control the origin story of the virus, which has killed more than 1.8 million people so far and laid waste to global economies.

• The United States on Tuesday blacklisted a Chinese company that makes elements for steel production, 12 Iranian steel and metals makers and three foreign-based sales agents of a major Iranian metals and mining holding company.
• This move sought to deprive Iran of revenues as U.S. President Donald Trump’s term winds down.