The US Senate has voted to acquit former president Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial. A two-thirds majority — 67 or more guilty votes — was required to convict the former president. Senators voted 57-43 guilty on the charge of incitement of insurrection. In the vote, seven of the 50 Senate Republicans joined the chamber’s unified Democrats in favouring …

Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial could conclude on Saturday, leaving a divided U.S. Senate to decide whether the former president incited his supporters to attack the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in a last-ditch effort to stay in power after his November election defeat. Trump is the first U.S. president to be impeached twice and the first to face trial …

Georgia’s secretary of state has opened an investigation into former US president Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the state’s 2020 election results. The investigation comes after Mr Trump was recorded in a January 2 phone call pressuring Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to overturn the results based on false voter fraud claims. “The Secretary of State’s office investigates complaints it receives,” said …

Freshly inaugurated, US President Joe Biden has signed his first executive orders and has already reversed some of Donald Trump’s policies on immigration, climate change, racial equality and coronavirus. The new President entered the White House with first lady Jill Biden on Wednesday (Washington time) and wasted no time getting to work. He began signing 15 executive orders from the …

US President-elect Joe Biden and President Donald Trump will campaign next week in Georgia, holding duelling events on the eve of runoff elections that will determine who controls the US Senate and the fate of Mr Biden’s legislative agenda. The visits come as Mr Trump escalates his fight with fellow Republican leaders in the state for not supporting his bid …

California has certified its presidential election and appointed 55 electors pledged to vote for Democrat Joe Biden, officially handing him the Electoral College majority needed to win the White House. Secretary of State Alex Padilla’s formal approval of Biden’s win in the state brought his tally of pledged electors so far to 279, according to a tally by The Associated …

The race to decide the US presidential election is on a knife edge with  Donald Trump leading Democratic rival Joe Biden in the vital battleground state of Florida. With other competitive swing states that will help decide the election, including North Carolina, still up in the air, American look likely to go to bed without knowing who their leader will …

US President Donald Trump was raring to get back to work, just days after contracting coronavirus. Some of his enthusiasm may be driven by an uncomfortable realisation that he may be heading for a decisive election defeat. Currency markets are now pointing to precisely that outcome — a turnaround in just a few weeks. Last month the price of derivatives …

US President Donald Trump’s medical team confirmed he has been prescribed dexamethasone, a steroid shown in studies to improve survival for patients hospitalised with critical COVID-19 symptoms. The medication is cheap and widely-used but according to guidelines from the Infectious Disease Society of America, it should not be given in mild cases since it can limit the body’s own ability …

US President Donald Trump has nominated Amy Coney Barrett, a judge on the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court. At 48, the devout Roman Catholic would be the youngest justice on the bench if she is confirmed by the US Senate. Mr Trump hailed Judge Barrett as “a woman …