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 […]
Read MoreWashington: The Capitol Police have requested that members of the National Guard continue to provide security at the U.S. Capitol for another two months, news agency The Associated Press has learned. Defense officials say the new proposal is being reviewed by the Pentagon. The request underscores the continuing concerns about security and the potential for […]
Read MoreWashington: The late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is lying in state at the US Capitol, the first woman in American history to do so, in commemoration of her extraordinary life. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said it is with “profound sorrow” that she welcomed the liberal icon and opened the private service. Mourners gathered under coronavirus restrictions for the service for Ginsburg, who died last […]
Read MoreWashington DC: Protesters toppled the only statue of a Confederate general in the nation’s capital and set it on fire on Juneteenth, the day marking the end of slavery in the United States, amid continuing anti-racism demonstrations following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Cheering demonstrators jumped up and down as the 11-foot (3.4-meter) statue of Albert Pike wrapped with chains wobbled […]
Read MoreWashington: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that it’s time to remove symbols honoring Confederate figures from the US Capitol building and military bases as the pandemic and racial unrest force a national reckoning with racial discrimination. “These names have to go from these bases and these statues have to go from the Capitol,” Pelosi said at her weekly news conference. […]
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