The US Capitol has been fortified amid fresh threats of violence - Shutterstock have been given lethal weapons to carry as senior officials launched an unprecedented security operation to protect government buildings. Around 15,000 National Guard troops are expected to be deployed to Washington ...
Representatives Andy Biggs (R., Ariz.), Mo Brooks (R., Ala.), and Paul Gosar (R., Ariz.) are denying any involvement in organizing last week’s rioting at the U.S. Capitol after a protest organizer claimed he “schemed” with them to put “maximum pressure on Congress while they were voting.” ...
Panic buttons installed in Alyssa Pressley’s congressional office were torn out before rioters stormed the Capitol last week, her staff have said. Sarah Groh, who serves as Ms Pressley’s chief of staff, was with the congresswoman when president Donald Trump’s supporters that she had reached for ...
Reporters shared photographs of an extraordinary sight Wednesday morning as they arrived at the United States Capitol ahead of the House impeachment vote. The shots show hundreds of armed National Guard troops getting some rest in the hallways of the building. The jolting images provide a dose ...
Feuding royals hugging, music videos celebrating “brotherhood” on national television – the pomp and ceremony of Saudi Arabia and Qatar’s reconciliation, which ended a blockade that divided the Arab world, was as schmaltzy as it was momentous. In 2017, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates ...
After the attack on Congress by a pro-Trump mob, there are growing calls for the president to be removed for "inciting" the riot. Donald Trump, a Republican, is due to leave office just days from now, on 20 January, when Democrat Joe Biden will be sworn in. But Democrats, including House of ...
Israel has reportedly carried out a wave of air strikes on Iran-backed militia positions in Syria overnight, in the fourth such attack in two weeks./ The Syrian state news agency Sana said Israeli aircraft attacked the eastern Deir al-Zour and Albu Kamal regions./ It did not mention any ...
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), left, soon won't be in control of the Senate anymore, but expect him to try to impede Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), right, who will take over as majority leader. — yes, it was only last week — qualified as life-changing news for President-elect Joe Biden, who ...
Nicholas Ochs, left, and Dick NeCarlo signal approval next to the scrawled words "Murder the Media" — a right-wing streaming outlet. They say they were at the Capitol siege as independent reporters. When the livestreamer known as Dick NeCarlo entered the U.S. Capitol last week with a mob incited ...
In an extraordinary letter Tuesday, all eight of the top U.S. military officers that last week's deadly mob attack on the U.S. Capitol was an illegal "direct assault" on not just Congress but also America's constitutional order, and "the rights of freedom of speech and assembly do not give ...
