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National Mall closed for Inauguration Day Updated January 14, 2021, 5:44 p.m. Email to a Friend The entire National Mall will be closed for Inauguration Day, accessible only by media and security personnel, according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive security issues. The extraordinary closure is the latest in a series of security measures to harden the city against the type of violence that rocked the Capitol on Jan. 6. Local and...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day: 9 Ways to Honor His Legacy Marches and parades are on pause this year. But streamed events and exhibitions are still commemorating King’s achievements. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the March on Washington in 1963.Credit...Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Published Jan. 14, 2021Updated Jan. 20, 2021 The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, observed this year on Jan. 18, became a national holiday in 1983, 15 years after the death of the civil rights leader. Be...

The representative from Colorado, first elected in 1996, spent 14 years as the Democrats’ chief deputy whip and often holds the gavel in the House.

Updated: January 11, 2021 11:45 IST If Mike Pence does not invoke the 25th Amendment, the House will consider impeaching Donald Trump, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says in a letter to fellow House Democrats. Share Article AAA Vice President Mike Pence and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., read the final certification of Electoral College votes cast in Novembers presidential election during a joint session of Congress after working through the night, at the Capitol in Washington, Thurs...

Democrats suggested they could charge President Trump with “high crimes and misdemeanors” by midweek for inciting a mob that attacked the Capitol. But top leaders want to avoid hamstringing the first days of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s presidency with an all-consuming Senate trial.

‘We will not be intimidated.’ Mass. members of Congress describe violent clashes at Capitol Zoe Greenberg © Jose Luis Magana Supporters of President Trump climbed the west wall of the US Capitol in Washington on Wednesday. Massachusetts lawmakers, many still in lockdown in undisclosed locations, forcefully condemned the storming of the Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters attempting to halt the congressional certification of Joe Biden’s presidential victory on Wednesday...

Black Voters Want President Biden to Take a Cue From Candidate Biden In his victory speech, the president-elect said of Black voters: “You’ve always had my back, and I’ll have yours.” Many of those voters are watching to see what he does in office. Joseph R. Biden Jr. with his wife and granddaughter at Royal Missionary Baptist Church in North Charleston, S.C., in February. He won the state’s primary later that month.Credit...Hilary Swift for The New York Times Published Dec. 24, 2020U...