Sarah Fuller, the first woman to score in a Power Five conference football game, says she's been invited to attend U.S. President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration on Wednesday.
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Christina Janowitz of Guilderland, N.Y., from the group All Of Us holds a flag while counter-protesting a Trump rally ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris at the New York State Capitol Sunday, Jan (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)
Small groups of right-wing protesters some of them carrying rifles gathered outside heavily fortified statehouses around the country Sunday, outnumbered by National Guard troops and police brought in to prevent a repeat of the violence that erupted at the U.S. Capitol. As darkness fell, there were no reports of any clashes.
Security was stepped up in recent days after the FBI warned of the potential for armed protests in Washington and at all 50 state capitol buildings ahead of President-elect Joe Biden s inauguration on Wednesday.
One of the great tragedies of the past year, as some 400,000 Americans lost their lives to Covid-19, was not only that many victims died alone their loved ones robbed of the chance to say goodbye but that the pain of that loss was whitewashed by a President who chose to minimize and deny it.
Biden, an avid fan of Amtrak, had planned to take a train into Washington ahead of Inauguration Day, but scratched that plan after the U.S. Capitol riot.