WASHINGTON – Lawmakers are vowing an investigation into how Capitol police handled Wednesday’s violent breach at the Capitol, questioning whether a lack of preparedness allowed the mob to occupy and vandalize the building.Rep.

Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., chairwoman of the House Administration Committee, said the breach “raises grave security concerns,″ adding that her committee will work with House and Senate leaders to review the police response — and its preparedness — to a violent mob loyal to President Donald Trump that stormed the Capitol and forced lawmakers into hiding.The incident forced lawmakers to crouch under desks and don gas marks, while police futilely tried to barricade the building.

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The unfolding of 'home-grown fascism' in Capitol assault

WASHINGTON – Under battle flags bearing Donald Trump's name, the Capitol's attackers pinned a bloodied police officer in a doorway, his twisted face and screams captured on video. They mortally wounded another officer with a blunt weapon and body-slammed a third over a railing into the crowd.“Hang Mike Pence!" the insurrectionists chanted as they pressed inside, beating police with pipes.

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Trump orders flags to half-staff in honor of 2 fallen Capitol Police officers

US Capitol Flags At Half-Staff For Fallen Capitol Police Officer WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has ordered flags across the county to be flown at half-staff through Wednesday to honor two U.S. Capitol Police Officers who died following Wednesday's violent riots.In a statement, President Trump ordered flags lowered at the White House, and all public buildings and grounds until sunset on Jan.

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Trump orders flags lowered to half-staff in honor of 2 fallen Capitol Police officers

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Trump’s influence will drop ‘dramatically’ after Biden’s inauguration, Bolton says

Joe Biden is sworn in on Jan. 20, his former adviser says.“At noon on the 20th of January, the world changes in immeasurable ways…But one of the ways that it will change is Donald Trump’s influence will drop dramatically,” Former White House national security adviser John Bolton told The West Block‘s Mercedes Stephenson in an interview.

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Congress notified of possible COVID-19 exposure following US Capitol riot

WASHINGTON - House lawmakers may have been exposed to someone testing positive for COVID-19 while they sheltered at an undisclosed location during the Capitol siege by a violent mob loyal to President Donald Trump.The Capitol’s attending physician notified all lawmakers Sunday of the virus exposure and urged them to be tested. The infected individual was not named.Dr.

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Possible virus exposure for lawmakers sheltering during riot

WASHINGTON – House lawmakers may have been exposed to someone testing positive for COVID-19 while they sheltered at an undisclosed location during the Capitol siege by a violent mob loyal to President Donald Trump.The Capitol's attending physician notified all lawmakers Sunday of the virus exposure and urged them to be tested. The infected individual was not named.Dr.

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2nd GOP senator calls for Trump's resignation after Capitol riot

US Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) WASHINGTON - A second Republican senator has called for President Donald Trump to step down in the wake of the Capitol rioting this past week.This time it's Sen.

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Trump seeks new online megaphone after Twitter ban

Twitter wag joked about lights flickering on and off at the White House being Donald Trump signalling to his followers in Morse code after Twitter and Facebook squelched the president for inciting rebellion.Though deprived of his big online megaphones, Trump does have alternative options of much smaller reach. The far right-friendly Parler may be the leading candidate, though Google and Apple have both removed it from their app stores and Amazon decided to boot it off its web hosting service.

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‘Unacceptable act of censorship’: Putin critic Navalny criticizes Trump Twitter ban

Donald Trump — begins to clear, several prominent figures have taken to expressing their opinions online.Among them is Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, who tweeted Saturday he thought Trump’s Twitter suspension was “an unacceptable act of censorship.” Twitter permanently suspends Trump as supporters face social media purge Navalny reasoned in a thread that the ban was a decision based on “emotions” and “personal political preferences” as other accounts belonging to other controversial leaders like Russian President Vladimir Putin and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, as well as COVID-19-deniers and other extremists have been not been banned.“And yet, it was Trump who got banned publicly and ostentatiously,” wrote Navalny.

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Denial, defiance, disruption: U.S. Capitol riot is legacy of Trump’s presidency

U.S. President Donald Trump’s legacy is now defined by the Capitol riot. As Global National anchor and executive editor Dawna Friesen explains, the reckless act is a morbid reminder of democracy’s fragility.

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dignity and generosity. At the same time, those defeated have not been hounded and jailed for their actions while in power.This differs markedly from democracies like Brazil and South Korea, where defeated presidents have been regularly jailed when their opponents seize power.

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EXPLAINER: Who has been charged in the deadly Capitol riot?

stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, sending lawmakers into hiding as they began their work to affirm President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.

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Feds arrest 'QAnon Shaman,' West Virginia lawmaker after Capitol riot

FILE - Supporters of US President Donald Trump, including member of the QAnon conspiracy group Jake Angeli, aka Yellowstone Wolf (C), enter the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC. WASHINGTON - Federal prosecutors on Saturday announced the arrests of three high-profile rioters in the U.S.

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'Brian did his job': Family remembers fallen Capitol officer

SOUTH RIVER, N.J. - From his early days growing up in a New Jersey hamlet, Brian Sicknick wanted to be a police officer.He enlisted in the National Guard six months after graduating high school in 1997, deploying to Saudi Arabia and then Kyrgyzstan. Joining the Guard was his means to joining law enforcement, his family said.He would join the U.S.

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Georgia's GOP governor under fire after US Senate losses

ATLANTA – Even though he wasn’t on the ballot, Republican Gov. Brian Kemp has been painfully bruised by the 2020 elections.

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A farewell to @realDonaldTrump, gone after 57,000 tweets

WASHINGTON – @realDonaldTrump, the Twitter feed that grew from the random musings of a reality TV star into the cudgel of an American president, has died. It was not quite 12 years old.The provocative handle was given birth by a New York real estate tycoon who used it to help him become the 45th U.S.

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An farewell to @realDonaldTrump, gone after 57,000 tweets

WASHINGTON – @realDonaldTrump, the Twitter feed that grew from the random musings of a reality TV star into the cudgel of an American president, died Friday. It was not quite 12 years old.The provocative handle was given birth by a New York real estate tycoon who used it to help him become the 45th U.S.

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Twitter permanently suspends Trump as supporters face social media purge

Donald Trump, citing a risk of him inciting further violence.“In the context of horrific events this week, we made it clear on Wednesday that additional violations of the Twitter Rules would potentially result in this very course of action,” read a statement posted on Twitter’s blog. Facebook blocks Trump for ‘at least’ the rest of presidential term “Our public interest framework exists to enable the public to hear from elected officials and world leaders directly.

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Florida men face federal charges for role in Capitol riot, others still sought by FBI

ORLANDO, Fla. – Federal prosecutors have charged more people accused of storming the Capitol building Wednesday, part of the violence leading to the deaths of now five people, including a Capitol police officer, and among those are several people who traveled from Florida to Washington D.C.The rampage has shocked the world and left the country on edge.

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Security concerns for Inauguration Day following pro-Trump Capitol riot

WASHINGTON (AP) - The violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol is intensifying scrutiny over security at the upcoming inauguration ceremony for President-elect Joe Biden, which already has been reshaped by the pandemic and President Donald Trump's decision not to attend.Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will take the oath of office from the Capitol's West Front, one of the locations where a mob overpowered police and stormed the building.

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Biden says people responsible for Capitol officer’s death will be held accountable

WILMINGTON, Del. - President-elect Joe Biden expressed his "deep sympathy" to the family of the U.S. Capitol Police officer who died in the violent siege of the building by supporters of President Donald Trump and vowed those responsible will be held accountable."Our sympathies and our concerns go out to his family, and the people responsible should be held accountable — and they will be," Biden said during an event Friday in Wilmington, Delaware, to introduce additional key nominees of his economic and jobs team.U.S.

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Pro-Trump rioter fired after wearing work badge into U.S. Capitol

Trump rioter who joined the mob attack on the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday has been fired after eagle-eyed observers noticed his work badge in footage from the unrest.The man appeared in dozens of photos captured inside the U.S.

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Pelosi aide says laptop stolen from her office during pro-Trump riot at US Capitol

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi heads back to her office after calling for the removal of President Donald Trump from office either by invocation of the 25th Amendment by Vice President Mike Pence and a majority of the Cabinet members or Impeachmen WASHINGTON - Electronics were stolen from prominent lawmakers’ offices during the violent siege of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump, including a laptop from the office of U.S.

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Death of U.S. Capitol Police officer after riot fuels calls for arrests, inquiry

Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol, a violent siege that is forcing hard questions about the defeated president’s remaining days in office and the ability of the Capitol Police to secure the area.The U.S. Capitol Police said in a statement that Officer Brian D.

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Capitol Police rejected federal help to quell pro-Trump mob

WASHINGTON (AP) - Three days before supporters of President Donald Trump rioted at the Capitol, the Pentagon asked the U.S Capitol Police if it needed National Guard manpower. And as the mob descended on the building Wednesday, Justice Department leaders reached out to offer up FBI agents.

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Capitol Police rejected offers of federal help to quell mob

WASHINGTON – Three days before supporters of President Donald Trump rioted at the Capitol, the Pentagon asked the U.S Capitol Police if it needed National Guard manpower. And as the mob descended on the building Wednesday, Justice Department leaders reached out to offer up FBI agents.

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Donald Trump concedes in video condemning rioters at U.S. Capitol

U.S. President Donald Trump conceded the election in a video posted to Twitter that condemned the actions of a pro-Trump mob who stormed the U.S.

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Calls grow to remove Trump from office after Capitol riots

After Wednesday’s riots at the U.S. Capitol, lawmakers are calling for President Donald Trump’s immediate removal from the White House. Jackson Proskow reports on the aftermath of the attempted coup that Trump instigated.

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Woman fatally shot at U.S. Capitol was QAnon believer, Air Force vet

Donald Trump. Photos show stark contrast in police response to MAGA, BLM unrest Babbitt, 35, was part of the extremist mob that stormed the Capitol in an effort to overturn the democratic election results on Wednesday, following encouragement from Trump himself.

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Here are the White House officials who have resigned after the U.S. Capitol riot

Donald Trump’s cabinet — have resigned after Trump supporters violently stormed the Capitol building Wednesday.The latest to resign was Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who joined outgoing Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao Thursday and others in linking the riot to Trump’s incendiary rhetoric, while also criticizing the president’s initial response to the growing violence.

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US Capitol police officer dies of injuries sustained during pro-Trump riots, officials say

UNITED STATES - JANUARY 6: Trump supporters stand on the U.S. Capitol Police armored vehicle as others take over the steps of the Capitol on Wednesday, Jan.

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'What else could I do?' NJ Rep. Kim helps clean up Capitol

WASHINGTON (AP) - Water bottles, clothing, Trump flags, even a U.S. flag littered the ground inside the U.S.

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Trump tweets video message condemning violent mob of his supporters day after they stormed US Capitol

Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the American Airlines Center in Dallas on September 14, 2015. WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump tweeted a video after making no public appearances since a mob of his supporters violently laid siege to the U.S.

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Mob at U.S. Capitol encouraged by online conspiracy theories

CHICAGO – Every video the Louisiana man posts on Twitter and Facebook starts with a big smile and a wish for his thousands of followers to have a blessed day.But as he drove to the nation’s capital Tuesday morning, he grew loud and angry talking about the presidential election.“You aren’t going to wake up and see?” Christian Suprean, 42, said in one of a dozen videos that together have drawn more than 30,000 views on Twitter in recent days. “I think we won everything.

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Several state lawmakers joined, observed US Capitol turmoil

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A West Virginia lawmaker who filmed himself and supporters of President Donald Trump storming into the U.S. Capitol is being widely condemned as federal prosecutors step up their pursuit of violent perpetrators.State Del.

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VIRUS TODAY: Record US deaths come on day of Capitol attack

registered its highest deaths yet from the coronavirus on the very day the mob attack on the Capitol laid bare some of the same, deep political divisions that have hampered the battle against the pandemic. The virus is surging in virtually every state.

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Pelosi calls for Trump’s removal through 25th Amendment after Capitol chaos

U.S. Capitol, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is calling for President Donald Trump‘s removal from office through the 25th Amendment.Pelosi has called on Vice-President Mike Pence to invoke the amendment, and should he not, Pelosi said her caucus will move forward and seek to impeach the president less than two weeks before his term is set to expire.“Yesterday, the President of the United States incited an armed insurrection against America,” Pelosi told reporters Thursday, adding that Trump committed a “seditious act.”She said she expects a quick decision from Pence on her request, acknowledging that her sentiments are shared by others.

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Biden blames Trump for violence at Capitol that's shaken US

WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday denounced the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol as “domestic terrorists” and he blamed President Donald Trump for the violence that has shaken the nation's capital and beyond.The protest by Trump supporters that breached the security of Congress on Wednesday was “not dissent, was not disorder, was not protest.

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“We’re in! Keep it moving, baby!”: West Virginia GOP delegate records himself storming U.S. Capitol

WASHINGTON (FOX 5 DC) - A West Virginia lawmaker recorded video of himself and fellow supporters of President Donald Trump storming the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, triggering calls for his resignation.In the video by Republican Del.

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Barr says Trump conduct amid US Capitol violence 'betrayal' of presidency

US Attorney General Bill Barr holds a news conference to provide an update on the investigation of the terrorist bombing of Pan Am flight 103 on the 32nd anniversary of the attack, at the Department of Justice Dec. 21, 2020 in Washington, D..C.

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Late-night hosts react with shock, anger to Capitol attack

NEW YORK – Late-night TV show hosts expressed anger and frustration at the violence at the U.S. Capitol, offering somber monologues that pleaded for unity even as some aimed pointed barbs at those they held responsible for the mobs' actions.“It was a terrible day in the history of this country,” said Jimmy Kimmel on his ABC show Wednesday.

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U.S. Congress seals Biden’s election victory after chaotic day in Washington

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Mick Mulvaney says he's resigning from Trump administration after Capitol riot

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump’s former acting White House chief of staff resigned his post as special envoy to Northern Ireland on Thursday, saying "I can’t do it. I can’t stay."Mick Mulvaney joined a growing list of Trump administration officials who are leaving following the violent riot at the Capitol on Wednesday.

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The Latest: Mulvaney says he's quitting after Capitol riot

WASHINGTON – The Latest on Congress’ confirmation of Joe Biden as winner of the presidential election (all times local):8:35 a.m.President Donald Trump’s former acting White House chief of staff resigned his post as special envoy to Northern Ireland on Thursday, saying “I can’t do it. I can’t stay.”Mulvaney joined a growing list of Trump administration officials who are leaving following the violent riot at the Capitol on Wednesday.

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FBI seeking information after chaos and destruction at US Capitol

WASHINGTON - The Federal Bureau of Investigation is seeking help identifying individuals who were part of the unprecedented chaos Wednesday when supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol.RELATED: Woman shot, killed after pro-Trump protesters charged US Capitol identifiedThe FBI is accepting tips and digital media depicting rioting and violence in the U.S.

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World reaction to the storming of the US Capitol

Reaction from around the world to the storming of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump:___“A fundamental rule of democracy is that, after elections, there are winners and losers.

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Trump promises 'orderly transition' after Congress certifies Biden's 2020 election

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump for the first time acknowledged his defeat in the Nov. 3 election and announced there would be an "orderly transition on January 20th" after Congress concluded the electoral vote count early Thursday certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.Trump’s acknowledgement came after a day of chaos and destruction on Capitol Hill as a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol building and unleashed unprecedented scenes of mayhem as it tried to halt the peaceful transition of power.

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Joe Exotic asks for presidential pardon again after father dies of COVID-19

COVID-19.The Tiger King star is currently serving a 22-year prison sentence for plotting a murder-for-hire plot against Big Cat Rescue founder Carole Baskin, and has reportedly asked for pardon once more, in order to attend his father’s funeral on Saturday (January 9).According to TMZ, Exotic’s legal team flew to Washington D.C yesterday (January 7) in order to renew his request for a pardon from Donald Trump.Eric Love, leading the legal team, reportedly told the publication he had a meeting with “someone White House/pardon-related” without specifying who.They also specified that if Trump denies the request for a full pardon, the team will ask a judge for “a day pass” so that Joe Exotic may travel to Oklahoma as part of a temporary release.

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Lawmakers vow to investigate police after Capitol breach

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