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The U.S. Census Bureau has released its first batch of data for its once-every-decade count.

U.S. population growth has slowed to the lowest rate since the Great Depression, the Census Bureau said Monday, as Americans continued their march to the South and West and one-time engines of growth, New York and California, lost political influence. Altogether, the U.S. population rose to 331,449,281 last year, the Census Bureau said, a 7.4% increase that was the second-slowest…

In a 232-197 vote, the U.S. House of Representatives voted Wednesday to impeach President Donald Trump, charging him with “incitement of insurrection.”

President Donald Trump was impeached Wednesday over the assault on the U.S. Capitol, making him the first president to be impeached twice. The second impeachment came just a week after he encouraged loyalists to “fight like hell” against election results and then a mob of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. The vote was 232-197, with 10 Republicans voting...

With impeachment pressure mounting, the House on Tuesday was speeding ahead to try to oust President Donald Trump from office. Late in the evening, the House approved a resolution urging Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to the Constitution to remove Trump with a Cabinet vote.

The House will proceed with legislation to impeach President Donald Trump, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Sunday. The action, which could begin as soon as Monday, comes amid growing talk in Washington to try to force the president from office early in the aftermath of the violent siege of the U.S. Capitol last week.

Angry supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday in a chaotic protest aimed at thwarting a peaceful transfer of power, forcing lawmakers to be rushed from the building and interrupting challenges to Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory.

The chaos at the Capitol are starting to show consequences for President Donald Trump, who have largely spent his years in office flouting presidential conventions with the support of his staff and party. Lawmakers, including Republican House member Adam Kinzinger, have called for Vice President Mike Pence to unseat Trump via the 25th amendment. Meanwhile, Trump’s cabinet and staff members...

Congress affirmed Democrat Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 presidential election early Thursday morning after a long and tense day on Capitol Hill which was the scene of a riot the day prior.

USC law Prof. Jody Armour examines what happened Wednesday on Capitol Hill. Video broadcast Thursday Jan. 7, 2020 on Today in LA.

A day following mayhem created by President Trump’s supporters, the streets around the U.S. Capitol were quiet but traces of blood still marked the pavement. NBCLX’s Chase Cain walks us through the Capitol grounds stained by the violent events.

After being delayed for several tense hours as violent rioters stormed the Capitol building, the House and Senate voted to affirm Joe Biden as president-elect early Thursday morning.

“The United States and the U.S. Congress have faced down much greater threats than the unhinged crowd we saw today,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said on Wednesday. “We’ve never been deterred before, and we will not be deterred today.”

A Slate journalist captured the moment protesters attempted to break into the U.S. Capitol building on Wednesday by smashing the glass window panes of a door.

Members of the Southern California congressional delegation arrived at Capitol Hill Wednesday prepared to participate in one of the traditions of American democracy — the usually routine Electoral College vote count.

Supporters of President Donald Trump protesting the election results broke into the Senate chamber Wednesday, activating a lockdown for the U.S. Capitol building and curfew for Washington, D.C.

As protesters decrying the results of the presidential election broke into the U.S. Capitol, Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., said members of Congress had been instructed to wear gas masks after tear gas was deployed in the rotunda.

Thousands of Trump supporters descended upon Washington, D.C., and began rioting on Wednesday, forcibly breaching the Capitol building as the House and Senate met to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election.

Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., expressed his concern about the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election as he spoke on the Senate Floor. McConnell said “If this election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side our democracy would enter a death spiral. We’d never see the whole nation accept the election again.”

In a letter to Congress on Wednesday, Vice President Mike Pence said he does not believe he has the power to count or reject electoral votes. “Some believe that as Vice President, I should be able to accept or reject electoral votes unilaterally,” Pence said. “Others believe that electoral votes should never be challenged in a Joint Session of Congress…...