Republican Acquittal of Trump Is a Pivotal Moment for the Party
Sunday, February 14, 2021 | |
| By Nicholas Fandos The verdict was unlikely to be the final word for former President Donald J. Trump, his badly divided party or the festering wounds the Jan. 6 riot that prompted the impeachment left behind. | | | political memo By Alexander Burns The vote, signaling how thoroughly the party has come to be defined by the personality of one man, is likely to leave a blemish on the historical record. | | | By Benjamin Mueller and Carl Zimmer New research finds that the British variant is "likely" to be linked to a higher risk of hospitalization and death, laying bare the danger facing countries that ease restrictions. | | |
| U.S. By Jason DeParle For Kathryn Stewart, a struggling single mother in Michigan, the past year showed how much safety net programs can help — and how the nation's fickleness about them can add confusion and uncertainty to fear and worry. | | | Opinion By Frank Bruni They stand for nothing. The Senate trial proved that. | | |
| By The New York Times The Senate voted to acquit former president Donald J. Trump of the "incitement of insurrection" charge in the deadly riot at the Capitol, with 57 guilty votes, 10 shy of the number necessary to convict the former president. | | | By Reuters Columns of black smoke rose into the sky on the border between Afghanistan and Iran after a fuel tanker explosion spread to more than 100 other nearby tankers. | | | By The Associated Press Ohio officials said on Thursday they discovered about 4,000 overlooked Covid-19 deaths that occurred over the past several months after the state's Health Department said the deaths had not been properly merged between the internal death certificate database and the federal database. | | |
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