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Credit JOSE LUIS MAGANA / AP Thomas Gallagher, of Bridgewater, is the first person from New Hampshire who has been arrested and charged for participating in last week’s riot.  Gallagher is accused of knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, or knowingly, with intent to impede government business or official functions, engaging in disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. The second offense is violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol...

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Then, the imaginary struggle also turned to real violence. But this time, no one seemed sorry. Dorothy Woodend is culture editor of The Tyee. Reach her here. SHARES The LARPer-esque raiders of the US Capitol are overly familiar to me. Photo by Manuel Balce Ceneta, the Associated Press. In Grade 4, our entire elementary school class went to war. In the woods behind the school we formed two armed camps and enacted battles, spy campaigns, raids and the occasional kidna...

Update 11:35 a.m. 1-15-21: The Houston Chronicle has confirmed that the HPD officer who took part in last week’s D.C. riot and resigned Thursday is Tam Pham, an 18-year department veteran who was assigned to Westside Patrol. While HPD will still not publicly confirm that Pham is the officer in question (citing its ongoing investigation), Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo retweeted a Chron.com article on Thursday night that quoted the Chronicle’s interview with Pham, in which the now-forme...

A third Democratic member of the House who was forced to go into lockdown during last week's violent siege at the U.S. Capitol has tested positive for COVID-19.

The Trump mob looks like America because it is America.

UPDATE: Stu Block has retracted his original post detailed below and has issued a new statement, further clarifying his position in the wake of Iced Earth bandmate Jon Schaffers involvement in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol Building. Iced Earth guitarist Jon Schaffer was amongst the mob present inside the Capitol Building on Jan. 6 when Trump supporters forcefully and unlawfully entered, forcing senators certifying the 2020 election to evacuate and shelter in place. Singer Stu Block wa...

Many blame President Trumps fiery rhetoric claiming that the election was stolen from him. The President now claims he is ready for a peaceful transition of power to President-Elect Joe Biden. A peaceful transition is vital to democratic governments, where the leadership of a government peacefully hands over control of government to a newly elected or selected leadership. Congresswoman Rebecca Michelle Sherrill from New Jersey, Congressman Thomas Suozzi and Congressman Andrew Garbarino from New...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- As the events in Washington unfolded on Wednesday, photos from inside the Capitol went viral around the world. Many of those now-iconic images were taken by Getty Images Chief Photographer Win McNamee. McNamee captured the widely shared photo of a rioter dangling from the Senate chamber, and the image of another rioter carrying Speaker Nancy Pelosis lectern through the halls. That man has since been identified as Adam Johnson, 36, and was arrested in Florida two days late...

JOSE LUIS MAGANA / AP Members of New Hampshire’s congressional delegation say they support growing efforts to remove President Trump from office, either by impeachment or use of the 25th Amendment, one day after he incited supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol and halt the certification of Joe Biden as president-elect. Congressman Chris Pappas, Congresswoman Annie Kuster, Sen. Maggie Hassan and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen all said that Trump’s role in Wednesday’s riots merits his immediate oust...