Trump formally secures Electoral College win as his nominees push for Senate support: Live updates

In the days leading up to the meeting, Trump expressed a degree of sympathy for the company, saying he had a “warm spot” for the app, and vowing to “look at” the ban.

Republicans on Tuesday released a 128-page report suggesting former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney be investigated for her work investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.

The report examines the “failures and politicization” of the now-disbanded Jan. 6 Committee, arguing that President-elect Donald Trump was unfairly blamed for the attack.

“Speaker Pelosi’s multimillion-dollar select committee was a political weapon with a singular focus to mislead the public into blaming President Trump for the violence on January 6 and to tarnish the legacy of his first Presidency,” it said.

The conclusion argues that the FBI should investigate Cheney, arguing that her contact with witness Cassidy Hutchinson, a former Trump White House aide, amounted to witness tampering.

“6. January showed Donald Trump for who he really is – a cruel and vindictive man who allowed violent attacks on our Capitol and police officers to continue while he watched television and refused for hours to instruct his supporters to stand down and leave,” Cheney said in a statement. , states The Hill.

She further noted that “Chairman [Barry] Loudermilk’s (R-Ga.) ‘Interim Report’ deliberately ignores the truth and overwhelming weight of the Select Committee’s evidence, and instead invents lies and defamatory allegations in an attempt to cover up what Donald Trump has done. Their claims do not reflect a review of the actual evidence and are a malicious and cowardly attack on the truth. No respectable lawyer, legislator or judge would take this seriously.”

After nearly 10 years at the helm of the country, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing growing calls from his own party to resign.

Trudeau’s latest crisis was sparked by the sudden resignation of his finance minister, Chrystia Freeland, amid a dispute over how best to deal with US President-elect Donald Trump’s threatened trade tariffs.

Once the poster boy for liberal politics, his popularity has declined, and his approval rating has dipped below 30 percent several times this year.

Donald Trump formally won the Electoral College and the presidency after Texas electors handed him the state’s 40 electoral votes on Tuesday.

After Trump’s election victory on November 5, his victory was formalized on Tuesday when presidential electors gathered across the US

270 electoral votes are needed to win the Electoral College — Trump won 312 last month and Vice President Kamala Harris won 226.

Each state’s votes will be sent to Congress next month, where Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance will be named the next president and vice president before taking office at noon on January 20.

Incoming First Lady Melania Trump she is dedicated to providing for her 18-year-old son, Barron Trumpshe is happy and healthy, which is likely to make her role in the White House less visible than other first ladies, insiders say.

“Melania is worried about the hatred in the country and how it is falling on her son, who is innocent in all of this,” a social source told the magazine.

The moment my kids got interested in the US election wasn’t when Taylor Swift declared her support for Kamala Harris, it was when Elon Musk appeared next to Donald Trump.

He is also the future, their future. They admire Tesla – ‘faster than a motorbike from a traffic light’ someone told me recently. They can take or leave X, it’s not their network. And the the space rocket turns into the dockneat as any car – that video has been replayed countless times in our household.

Trump said investment in building artificial intelligence infrastructure would create 100,000 jobs, double the 50,000 promised when Son pledged $50 billion in US investment after Trump’s 2016 victory.

Son, founder and CEO of SoftBank Group, is known for making bold choices that sometimes pay off and sometimes don’t. SoftBank is investing in dozens of Silicon Valley startups, along with major companies such as semiconductor design firm Arm and Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba. The stock market rally and artificial intelligence craze have boosted the value of its assets, but it’s unclear whether its investments will create as many jobs.

After losing the ranking member on the House Oversight Committee to Rep. Gerry Connolly, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrote on BlueSky: “I did my best. I’m sorry I couldn’t get it all out – we live to fight another day.”