As of Sunday, January 10, 2021, Montana reports 86,324 confirmed COVID-19 cases, with 353 new cases reported in the last day: 90 in Gallatin County, 59 in Missoula County, 47 in Yellowstone County, 39 in Lake County, 36 in Flathead County, 23 in Lewis & Clark County, and more new cases in 18 more Montana counties. The number of active coronavirus cases in Montana is 5,031, and 201 people are being treated in Montana hospitals for COVID-19. The most active cases are in Yellowstone, Gallatin, and Lewis & Clark Counties. 1,056 people have died in Montana of COVID-19. Two more deaths of Montanans were reported in the last day. Nationwide, more than 374,000 Americans have died of COVID-19. There have been 22,400,000 cases of coronavirus in the US, and counting.
Members of Congress, or the US House of Representatives, may have been exposed to Covid-19 when they hid during Wednesday riots at the U.S. Capitol, Congress’ attending physician wrote in a letter to members and staffers Sunday. “Many members of the House community were in protective isolation in [a] room located in a large committee hearing space,” Dr. Brian Monahan said, adding, “During this time, individuals may have been exposed to another occupant with coronavirus infection.” He advised members to keep up their “usual daily coronavirus risk reduction measures,” such as social distancing and symptoms checks. He said they should also get tested for the virus as a precaution.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday that lawmakers will move forward with impeaching President Donald Trump if other efforts to remove him from office fail. In a letter to Democrats, she said House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer will try to introduce a resolution Monday calling on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment and declare that Trump is incapable of executing the duties of his office. Hoyer, D-Md., needs unanimous consent to introduce the request, said Pelosi, D-Calif. If he doesn’t get it, lawmakers will bring it to the House floor for a vote Tuesday, she said. Pelosi’s announcement comes four days after a violent pro-Trump mob attacked the U.S. Capitol in an event that left five people dead, including two police officers.
Stripe, which processes online payments for President Donald Trump’s campaign, cut ties with him for violating its policies during last week’s riot at the U.S. Capitol. The San Francisco-based company said Trump encouraged violence Wednesday, when a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol, in violation of user policies that prohibit “high risk” activities. Other companies have turned on Trump over the attack, too. Twitter, where Trump had more than 80 million followers, permanently suspended his personal account Friday, while the email vendor that Trump’s campaign uses also suspended access, and Facebook blocked him indefinitely on Thursday. Parler, the right-wing social media site where many of Trump’s supporters have flocked to, was dumped by Apple and Google for not moderating what a Google spokesperson called “egregious content.”
The PGA has pulled a major 2022 tournament from Trump’s Bedminster golf course days after the deadly riot in Washington, D.C., which was spurred on by Trump. Playing at the New Jersey golf course “would be detrimental to the PGA of America brand,” the association’s president said. It isn’t the first time pro golf’s hierarchy has had to blast its way out of a public relations sand trap set by Trump. The 2016 WGC-Cadillac Championship was scheduled to be played at Trump National Doral near Miami before sponsors revolted over Trump’s comments as a presidential candidate that Mexican immigrants were “criminals, drugs dealers, rapists.” The tournament was moved to Mexico City.
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