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US House Speaker ousted for first time in history
There’s a vacancy in one of the top jobs in US politics after the ousting the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Third in the presidential line of succession, the person who’d have to take charge if the President and Vice President were both indisposed, Republican Kevin McCarthy was voted out by his own party.
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Donald Trump’s State of the Union: surprise standing ovation from Democrat women
Trump’s calls for co-operation on the border wall may have fallen flat, but the President took a softer tone, rather than his trademark fury at the State of the Union address.