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‘Clear the Capitol,’ Mike Pence pleaded, timeline of riot shows

10:35 pm April 10, 2021

WASHINGTON: From a secure room in the Capitol on Jan. 6, as rioters pummeled police and vandalized the building, Vice President Mike Pence tried to assert control. In an urgent phone call to the acting defense secretary, he issued a startling demand. “Clear the Capitol,” Pence said. Elsewhere in the building, Senate Majority Leader Chuck […]

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Latest attack pushes US Capitol Police further toward crisis

11:14 pm April 5, 2021

WASHINGTON: The U.S. Capitol Police are struggling. One officer was killed and another injured when a driver slammed into them at a barricade Friday afternoon. The attack comes after officers were overrun and injured when a violent mob of Trump supporters overran the Capitol on Jan. 6, breaking through insufficient barriers and pushing their way […]

Pentagon set to OK extending Guard deployment at Capitol

12:42 am March 10, 2021

Washington: The Pentagon is set to approve an extension of the National Guard deployment at the US Capitol for about two more months, defense officials said Tuesday. Officials said final details were being worked out, but Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is expected to give final approval, and have Guard troops continue to provide security in Washington, D.C., at the request of the Capitol Police, amid worries about continued threats. Officials have […]

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Trump defenders take the impeachment stage to make his case

11:44 pm February 12, 2021

Washington: After a prosecution case rooted in emotive, violent images from the Capitol siege, Donald Trump’s impeachment trial shifts on Friday to defense lawyers prepared to make a fundamental concession: The violence was every bit as traumatic, unacceptable and illegal as Democrats say. But, they will say, Trump did not order it. Acknowledging the horrors of the […]

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Analysis: Trump’s Senate trial matters regardless of outcome

8:00 pm February 7, 2021

Washington: This matters. The outcome may seem preordained in the unprecedented second impeachment trial of Donald Trump. Democrats prosecuting the former president for inciting a deadly insurrection at the US Capitol will struggle to persuade at least 17 Republicans to convict Trump and bar him from office. Forty-five of the 50 Republican senators backed a bid last month to dismiss the trial, essentially telegraphing how […]

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