US President Joe Biden has offered to scrap his plans to raise the corporate tax rate to pay for a bipartisan infrastructure package which totals at least $1 trillion.

Independent US Senator Bernie Sanders has warned Democrats that Republicans will win both the House of Representatives and the Senate next year.

QAnon is a far right-wing, loosely organized network of believers who hold faith in various bizarre beliefs. QAnon activists were part of the mob that attacked the US Capitol building on Jan. 6.

Democratic lawmakers say the two bills are crucial to ensure their safety especially after the traumatic experience of January 6, which was planned and orchestrated by Trump supporters.

With the 2022 midterm elections approaching, Republicans are looking to replace retiring Sen. Richard Burr, the Republican senator and a staunch Trump critic, with Trump’s daughter in law Lara Trump.

Dozens of Senate Republicans called on the Biden administration to withdraw a proposal that would place greater emphasis on slavery and the contributions of Black Americans in history and civics lessons taught in US schools.

Republican Party’s only Black senator, Tim Scott, reacting to US President Joe Biden’s speech on Wednesday, said America is “not a racist country” and race is “a political weapon”.

A political analyst believes the fact that Republicans are displeased with President Joe Biden’s decision to slightly increase the Pentagon's budget signals that “the United States of America fears everyone and everything.”

Gallup has noted gradual decline in religiousness in the US since 2000, sliding below 50 percent for the first time this year.

Trump has become the only president in American history to be impeached for a second time by the House of Representatives. Trump now faces trial in the Senate for allegedly inciting a group of his extremist supporters to violently attack Congress last week.