
David Smith
David Smith is the hlcarpenter's Washington DC bureau chief. Click here for David's public key. Twitter @smithinamerica
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Biden marks start of presidency with flurry of executive orders on a range of issues including coronavirus and the environment – follow all the latest
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Event at the Lincoln Memorial offers ‘national moment of unity’ to honor the lives lost to Covid-19, tweets Jill Biden – follow live
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Video message touts Trump’s accomplishments but does not acknowledge successor’s legitimate election win
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Biden says ‘I know these are dark times but there’s always light’ amid heavy security for scaled-down event after Capitol attack
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For four years the outrages piled up so high they were hard to keep track of but the coronavirus pandemic proved to be one crisis he couldn’t bluster away
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Planners have been forced to be inventive after the deadly pandemic and now last week’s Capitol insurrection dictated a pared-down event
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Ten House Republicans join Democrats to impeach president on charge of incitement of insurrection after violent riot at US Capitol – follow all the latest
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President speaks to reporters for first time since rampage as senior House Republican Liz Cheney says she will vote to impeach
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Trump set to become first president to be impeached twice and Nancy Pelosi calls Trump ‘deranged, unhinged, dangerous president’
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Analysis: The attack on the US Capitol shook America’s image of itself but is democracy really in its most precarious moment since the civil war?
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House Democrats set to speed ahead with impeachment bid as Pelosi condemns Trump’s ‘horrific assault on our democracy’
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When rioters stormed into the Capitol building in Washington DC this week, it marked a new low for the Trump presidency. David Smith and Lauren Gambino describe a week in US politics like no otherPodcast