UNEWS, Top stories for U.S. Latinos in English

The FBI and law enforcement are on high-alert ahead of Biden’s inauguration, more than 25,000 members of the National Guard are in Washington D.C. to protect against domestic extremism; newly-released video from The New Yorker shows Trump supporters storming the U.S. Capitol building; Los Angeles becomes the first county in the U.S. to reach 1,000,000 cases; and thousands of Honduran migrants scuffled with Guatemalan authorities blocking their path towards the US border.

President-elect Joe Biden unveiled a $1.9 Trillion covid emergency relief package, calling the vaccine rollout a “dismal failure”; FBI officials remain concerned about potential violence at protests and rallies in Washington and capitols around the country; the death toll from the pandemic could surpass 400,000 before Biden is sworn in on January 20th according to the CDC.

Donald Trump becomes the first sitting president to be impeached twice, 10 House Republicans voted with Democrats; in a taped message the president urged his supporters to stay peaceful without acknowledging his role in the violence; new dire warnings from health officials as the CDC projects 90,000 people could died from covid-19 in the next three weeks.

The House is poised to impeach President Trump for the second time in 13 months, this time a handful of Republicans have expressed their support; the nation’s military leadership denounced the storming of the Capitol as a plot to overthrow the government as federal prosecutors are examining more than 160 cases; and more than 4,000 people died of covid-19 on Tuesday, a single-day record, while the federal government reverses course and releases previously reserved second doses of the Moderna and Pfizer vaccine.

Efforts to remove President Trump continue, the House voting on a resolution tonight meant to pressure VP Pence to invoke the 25th amendment, paving the way for an impeachment vote on Wednesday; FBI warning of armed protests planned at all 50 state Capitols and the US Capitol; of the 25 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine distributed only a third have been administered; and Governor DeSantis discourages outsiders from traveling to Florida to get vaccine.

Democrats formally introduce an article of impeachment against President Trump following the Capitol Hill riots; the FBI and other law enforcement agencies arrest dozens of Capitol Hill rioters among them the man seen in pictures holding tactical gear and zip ties; and with more than 220,000 new covid cases the race to get people vaccinated is running into major hurdles.

A day after calling them great patriots, President Trump condemned his supporters who invaded the Capitol; calls to remove President Trump are growing with less than two weeks left in his presidency; a Capitol Police officer has died after Wednesday’s violent siege, marking the fifth connected to the riots; a grim new record overnight in the coronavirus crisis as the U.S. tallied more than 4,000 deaths in one day.

Congress confirmed Joe Biden as the election winner after a violent mob loyal to President Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol in a stunning attempt to overturn America's presidential election; Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff are declared winners of Georgia’s special election, tipping the senate majority in Democrats’ favor; the number of people hospitalized in the U.S. due to Covid-19 hit a record as newly reported coronavirus cases rose to over 250,000.

Democrat Raphael Warnock wins one of Georgia's two Senate runoffs, becoming the first Black senator in his state's history and putting the Senate majority within the party's reach; thousands of pro-Trump protestors are in Washington D.C., as the House and the Senate are holding a joint session to count the electoral votes cast in November's election; Dr. Fauci acknowledges the slow vaccine rollout and says the US could soon give out 1 million doses a day, as Nebraska’s governor says undocumented meatpacking workers will not have access to the vaccine.

Georgia voters will be deciding the balance of power in Congress in two high-stakes Senate runoff elections today; Washington DC braces for pro Trump protests ahead of Wednesday’s certification of the Electoral College vote; the FDA warns suggestions of changing vaccine dosing schedule is premature and not rooted in evidence; and undocumented immigrants are uncertain if they’ll be eligible for a vaccine.