Deaths of mother and three kids found in Melbourne home under investigation.
Several lines of inquiry are being followed by police after discovering the bodies of a mother and her three young children inside a Melbourne home.
48-year-old man Tomislav Perinovic, the father and husband of the four found dead at the Tullamarine home, was expected to be formally interviewed by homicide detectives on Thursday night.
He provided an initial version of events after police arrived at the Burgess Street property and discovered the bodies of a 42-year-old Katie Perinovic, two girls Claire and Anna - aged seven and five - and a three-year-old boy, Matthew.
The swift impeachment, one week after the riot, is very unlikely to lead to Trump's ouster before Biden takes office on January 20 and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has rejected Democratic calls for a quick trial in the Republican-led Senate, saying there was no way to meet in time.
But even if he has left the White House, the Senate could convict Trump and then vote to ban him from running for office again.
Biden, a Democrat, has urged Senate leaders to avoid a trial during his first days in the White House so that they can focus on the economy, getting the coronavirus vaccine distribution program on track and confirming crucial cabinet nominees.
Read: Exactly what happens now that Donald Trump has been impeached for a historic second time.
Lady Gaga to perform at Biden inauguration.
Lady Gaga and Jennifer Lopez will take the stage at US president-elect Joe Biden's inauguration ceremony in Washington DC next week alongside others in what his transition team says will showcase a diverse country.
The two will perform at the January 20 event for the incoming 46th US president, which will also feature remarks from a black firefighter from Georgia, a former Youth Poet Laureate, a Catholic priest and a pastor from Biden's hometown of Wilmington, Delaware.
Lady Gaga will sing the national anthem and Lopez will give a musical performance.
"They represent one clear picture of the grand diversity of our great nation," his team said in a statement on Thursday.
The public will not be on hand to watch the swearing-in at the West Front of the Capitol building, now fortified by fencing, barriers and thousands of National Guard Troops.
Around the world.
- The UK will ban arrivals from Brazil, other South American countries and Portugal due to concerns over a new coronavirus variant.
- Pope Francis and ex Pope Benedict have received the first dose of a vaccine against coronavirus, the Vatican says.
- Indonesian divers have resumed a search for the remains of 62 victims and the cockpit voice recorder from a Sriwijaya Air plane that plunged into the Java Sea soon after takeoff last weekend.
- A racing pigeon has survived a 13,000km Pacific Ocean crossing from the United States to Australia but authorities consider the bird a quarantine risk and plan to kill it.
- With AAP
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