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"I am honored to be the presumptive Democratic nominee for President of the United States," says US Vice President Kamala Harris in a phone call to a party celebration after securing enough votes from grassroots delegates by the second day of a five-day online ballot. SOUNDBITE
Vice President Kamala Harris says Trump "wants to take America back to 1800s" on abortion in a statement in Tucson, Arizona just days after that southwestern state's conservative supreme court rolled back reproductive rights to the Civil War era, saying an 1864 ban on abortion was valid. SOUNDBITE
A handful of supporters of Donald Trump gather outside the Manhattan Criminal Court where the former US president is due to be arraigned in a hush-money payment case. Other protesters unfurl a banner reading "Trump lies all the time." IMAGES
US lawmakers have voted to hold Steven Bannon, a key ally of ex-president Donald Trump, in criminal contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena to testify before a panel investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol. The House of Representatives has voted to refer him to federal prosecutors to make a decision on whether to press charges, although the ensuing legal battle would likely play out over several months, potentially frustrating the probe. IMAGES
Democrats begin the process of impeaching President Donald Trump for a second time, introducing a resolution calling on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment of the Constitution and remove Trump from the White House. Republicans blocked an immediate vote on the resolution and Democrats followed up by introducing an article of impeachment of Trump for "incitement of insurrection" over his role in Wednesday's storming of the US Capitol. IMAGES
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