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* House Impeaches President Trump with 232-197 Vote – 10 Republicans Join Democrats, Vote in Favor of Impeachment.
* The House of Representatives passed a nonbinding measure calling on Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove President Donald Trump from office. Pence has said he won’t invoke the amendment.
* Mitch McConnell’s office confirmed he will not “consent” to reconvening the Senate before Jan. 19, effectively killing hopes for removing President Donald Trump from office.
* US Mint closes two facilities amid coronavirus crisis.
* He’s Down to Last 2 Guesses to Access $240M in Bitcoin NYT looks at the problem of owners who have forgotten their passwords.
* Biden Team Announces Inauguration Theme: ‘America United’.
* The average price of a new vehicle has topped $40,000 for the first time ever as Americans switch from passenger cars to more-expensive SUVs and pickups. With prices rising, the average down-payment on new cars, trucks and SUVs reached an all-time high as well.
* Average US price of gas up 9 cents a gallon to $2.35.
* Should You Be Double-Masking? ‘You start achieving some pretty high efficiencies’.
* Shame On President donald Trump!
* Dem Lawmaker Claims Capitol Raid Was an Inside Job. Rep. Mikie Sherrill says she saw lawmakers leading people through Capitol on ‘reconnaissance’ mission a day before last week’s riot.
* NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio announced all Trump Organization contracts with the city will be terminated. De Blasio cited “criminal activity” by President Donald Trump as the legal reasoning for severing the contracts, blaming him for inciting the violence that occurred at the United States Capitol.
* Eric Swalwell compared President Donald Trump to Osama Bin Laden before the House vote to impeach the president for a second time.
* The Young Americans for Liberty announced Wednesday that the organization has terminated its former President Cliff Maloney “effective immediately” following allegations of sexual misconduct.
* Researchers at Ohio State University say that they’ve discovered two new coronavirus variants that are likely to have originated in the US.