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Calls have come from around the country and across the political spectrum for someone – Congress, Vice President Mike Pence and the Cabinet, perhaps anyone – to prevent President Donald Trump from wreaking any more havoc on the nation, and on its capital city.
Kirsten Carlson, a scholar of law and political science at Wayne State University, explains what the two options are and how they would work.
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President Donald Trump gestures during a Jan. 6 speech in Washington, D.C.
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Kirsten Carlson, Wayne State University
Calls have emerged from many sources for Congress or the Cabinet to remove Trump from office in the wake of the U.S. Capitol incursion Jan. 6. Who could act, and what could they do?
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The people who attacked the U.S. Capitol building lived up to their word to engage in violence.
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Alex Newhouse, Middlebury Institute of International Studies
Trump supporters openly discussed forcing Congress and Vice President Pence to overturn the election results.
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Stocking the haypile.
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Andrew Smith, Arizona State University
Pikas – small cousins of rabbits – live mainly in the mountainous US west. They've been called a climate change poster species, but they're more adaptable than many people think.
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Shannon M. Smith, College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University
The protests that ended in the storming of the US Capitol included members of white supremacy groups, the latest example of such groups being encouraged by politicians to challenge government.
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L. Alison Phillips, Iowa State University; Jacob Meyer, Iowa State University
Your most important piece of exercise gear may be the friends you buddy up with to work out.
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Andrew Janusz, University of Florida
A race-changing scandal raises suspicion about the motivations of 4,580 newly elected city council members and mayors who only recently began to identify as Black.
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It is very difficult to estimate the size of the crowd that stormed Capital Hill because there is no aerial imagery.
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Steve Doig, Arizona State University
A professor of journalism explains why you should be skeptical of any numbers that you see over the next few days.
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