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The US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to expel now-former congressman George Santos of New York, with 105 of his Republicans joining every Democrat to remove the embattled member from office. Mr Santos joined the ranks of five other members of Congress – all of them Democrats and three of whom were members of the Confederacy – to be expelled, which he said he considered a badge of honour. Votes to expel members of Congress are extraordinarily rare and require a two-thirds majority of the House of Representatives. Speaker Mike Johnson and most of the House Republican leadership voted against his expulsion. The vote bookends Mr Santos's spectacularly bizarre jaunt as a candidate and elected official. The New York freshman Republican became a lightning rod before he was even sworn in after multiple media reports showed that he had fabricated several parts of his life story, such as lying about working for Goldman Sachs, his claim that he went to Baruch College and that he was Jewish. "He needs to focus on the fact that rather than he continues to hang his hat on the people of the 3rd congressional district that sent him here, they didn't send George Santos here," Rep Anthony D'Esposito of New York told The Independent on Thursday evening before the vote. Read the full story here. |
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| Leading 2024 GOP candidate is accused of joining a conspiracy to unlawfully subvert state's election results |
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| State-wide ban would have come into effect on 1 January 2024 |
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| Newsom isn't running in 2024, and DeSantis campaign is on its last legs, so why are two battling at all? |
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| O'Connor became the first woman to be appointed the Supreme Court in 1981 |
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It was a royal saga to put even the most dramatic of Crown episodes to shame. Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, sat across from Oprah Winfrey in a sprawling LA mansion, making the astonishing claim that a senior member of the royal family had made comments about the skin colour of their then unborn child, Archie. The fallout was enormous, and though the Duke of Sussex later distanced himself from the remarks, the damage to The Firm was undeniable. Read the full article here |
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The cheat's gambit: Grandmasters go to war over claims 46-game blitz chess streak was tainted. Hikaru Nakamura was accused by a rival of cheating after a hot winning streak. The outcry exposed a generational rift between top chess players, Bevan Hurley reports Read more |
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" We are not alone in this vast universe" |
The mystery of the apparent "alien corpses" shown in Mexico's Congress has now taken an even more perplexing turn after new DNA findings were revealed. Read more |
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