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Raskin spoke about his personal experience in the Capitol on Jan. 6. He had been joined by family members that day — the day after he had buried his son, who took his own life in December.

At issue in the Senate chamber will be many of the fundamental aspects that defined Trump’s years in power: relentless assaults on truth, deliberate efforts to foment divisions, shattering of norms and undermining of a democratic election

Read more about Trump inciter in chief of Capitol attack to overturn polls, say democrats on Business Standard. House Democratic prosecutors said the former president was no innocent bystander but the inciter in chief of deadly attack at the Capitol to overturn the election.

Language affects behavior. When words champion aggression, make violence acceptable and embolden audiences to action, incidents like the insurrection at the Capitol are the result.

House Democrats prosecuting the case told senators they were presenting “cold, hard facts” against Trump, who is charged with inciting the mob siege of the Capitol to overturn the election he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.

The domed neoclassical Capitol building was inspired by European cathedrals and the Roman Pantheon – shrines to imperial power, not rule by and for the people.

In a brief filed on the eve of the impeachment trial, lawyers for the former president levelled a wide-ranging attack on the case, foreshadowing the claims they intend to present when arguments begin Tuesday

Donald Trump committed the "most grievous constitutional crime" of any US president when he incited supporters to storm the Capitol last month, Democratic prosecutors said Monday on the eve of his Senate impeachment trial.

From Washington DC to Wall Street, 2021 has already seen online groups causing major organised offline disruption. Some of it has been in violation of national laws, some in violation of internet platforms’ terms of service. When these groups are seen to cause societal harm, the solution has been knee-jerk: to ban or “deplatform” those groups immediately, leaving them digitally “homeless”. But the online world is a Pandora’s box of sites, apps, forums and message boards. Groups bann...

The worst ever terrorist attack by an Australian didn’t take place in Australia, but it was very much made in Australia. The Australian man who shot dead 51 people and injured 40 in Christchurch in 2019 arrived in New Zealand two years earlier, fully radicalised and consumed with hate. He had been expressing racist hatred from his youth, and from the age of 14 was active on extremist chat forums like the notorious 4Chan. In his twenties he travelled extensively overseas, developing his w...