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How a Trump mob froze American democracy Marc Fisher, Meagan Flynn, Jessica Contrera and Carol D. Leonnig, The Washington Post Jan. 7, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 14 1of14Tear gas is fired at supporters of President Donald Trump who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.Photo for The Washington Post by Evelyn HocksteinShow MoreShow Less 2of14Supporters of President Donald Trump storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.Photo for The Washington Post by Evelyn HocksteinShow MoreShow Le...

How the U.S. Capitol Police were overrun in a monumental security failure Peter Hermann, Carol D. Leonnig, Aaron C. Davis and David A. Fahrenthold, The Washington Post Jan. 7, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail WASHINGTON - Inside the U.S. Capitol, the rioters were in charge. Trump supporters were roaming freely, carrying off furniture. Capitol Police had not asked other law enforcement agencies for help until their building was surrounded by a mob seeking to overturn the election results. Now, their o...

The Finance 202: Biden fills out economic team as Trumps coalition continues to implode Tory Newmyer President-elect Joe Biden’s government is coming together as President Trump’s falls apart. The incoming president will nominate Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo for commerce secretary and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh (D) for labor secretary. He is also set to tap Isabel Guzman, director of California’s Office of the Small Business Advocate, to lead the Small Business Administ...

Inside the US Capitol, the rioters were in charge.

Pentagon, lambasted for heavy response in the past, on sideline during Capitol melee Paul Sonne, Dan Lamothe, Missy Ryan and Alex Horton, The Washington Post Jan. 6, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail President Trump supporters scaled the walls at the Capitol during a massive protest on Jan. 6, 2021.Washington Post photo by Michael Robinson Chavez WASHINGTON - The Pentagon scrambled to deploy more than a thousand National Guard forces to help protect the Capitol on Wednesday after they had remained on ...

Capitol breach prompts urgent questions about security failures Carol D. Leonnig, Aaron C. Davis, Dan Lamothe and David A. Fahrenthold, The Washington Post Jan. 6, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail WASHINGTON - The storming of the U.S. Capitol by a mob of President Donald Trumps supporters on Wednesday was a disastrous failure of security: In a city on high alert, in a building with its own 1,700-member police department, people forced their way into the sanctums of American democracy with nothing mor...

Trump Takes a Final Swipe at the Civil Rights Act The Department of Justice has proposed a change to the interpretation of disparate impact in Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and many anti-discrimination laws that followed. January 7, 2021, 7am PST | James Brasuell | More specifically: The Justice Department is seeking to change interpretation of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which bars discrimination on the basis of race, color or national origin by recipients of federal...

Power Up: Key Republicans break with Trump to certify Bidens win after violent attack on Capitol Jacqueline Alemany , had this to say to close out a tumultuous and shameful day in America: “These tragedies have reminded us that words matter, and that the power of life and death is in the tongue." Thanks for waking up with us.  On the Hill TRUMP FAR GONE: At roughly 3:45 a.m. following a shockingly violent day, Vice President Pence declared President-elect Joe Biden the wi...

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Investigators are considering a fear of aliens and 5G conspiracies among the possible motives for the bombing.