FBI remains on alert for actionable intelligence
Two rows of crowd-control fencing stretched down the sidewalk in front of the State House front steps Tuesday afternoon. STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE/SAM DORAN
Published: 1/19/2021 3:32:42 PM
A day before President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will be sworn into office in Washington, law enforcement officials in Massachusetts are again saying they are not aware of any specific or substantiated threats of violence directed at the state capitol or other government buildings in the area.
“Rest assured, if there were any actionable intelligence to develop indicating a potential threat, it will be immediately disseminated to our law enforcement partners through our five Joint Terrorism Task Forces,” said Kristen Setera, a spokesperson for the Federal Bureau of Investigations Boston Division.
Boris Johnson Offers Congratulations to Biden: Inaugural Update Bloomberg 1/19/2021 Bloomberg News
(Bloomberg) The U.K. prime minister offered congratulations ahead of Wednesday’s inauguration. The president-elect’s morning stop Wednesday will have echoes of the last Catholic president. And some U.S. Capitol Police officers have contracted the coronavirus since the Jan. 6 riot.
U.K. Prime Minister Johnson Congratulates Biden (5:56 p.m.)
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson congratulated Biden on his inauguration and said he looked forward to “working closely” with him to “defeat Covid and build back better from the pandemic.”
In a statement released Tuesday, Johnson said the U.K. shared U.S. goals on “climate change, defense, security and in promoting and defending democracy” and the nations would work “hand in hand” to achieve them.
Seattle to join nationwide COVID-19 memorial today, honor victims by Callie Craighead, SeattlePI
Seattle will join a nationwide memorial remembering victims of the COVID-19 pandemic on Tuesday as part of a national moment of unity and remembrance ahead of President-elect Joe Biden s inauguration on Wednesday. Memorializing American lives lost to COVID, cities are asked to illustrate our remembrance through the ringing of bells and illumination of buildings, organizers wrote.
In Seattle, the ceremony will include ringing the Friendship Bell at the Kobe Bell Courtyard in Seattle Center at 2:30 p.m. Viewers can watch live from home through a broadcast on Seattle Center s Facebook page.