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Off-duty U.S. Capitol Police officer dies; officials cite suicide Allison Klein and Rebecca Tan, The Washington Post Jan. 10, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail WASHINGTON - U.S. Capitol Police on Sunday announced the death of off-duty officer Howard Liebengood, the son and namesake of a former Senate sergeant at arms, lobbyist and Hill staffer. Two law enforcement officials told The Washington Post that Liebengood, 51, died by suicide over the weekend, days after being on the scene of Wednesday's violent siege of the Capitol building by a pro-Trump mob. Statements released Sunday by the Capitol Poli...

Capitol Police Chief Sund steps down, leaving earlier than expected Allison Klein and Rebecca Tan, The Washington Post Jan. 10, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail U.S. Capitol Police riot squad as Trump supporters breach the Capitol on Jan. 6.Washington Post photo by Michael Robinson Chavez WASHINGTON - The chief of the embattled U.S. Capitol Police department stepped down from his post Friday, days earlier than he said he would following a deadly breach of the Capitol complex by a mob supporting President Donald Trump. Chief Steven Sund on Thursday, hours after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., ...

Matt Dunham/AP toggle caption Matt Dunham/AP A Julian Assange supporter holds up a placard of the WikiLeaks founder outside Westminster Magistrates Court, the site of his bail hearing, in London on Wednesday. Matt Dunham/AP Updated at 8:20 a.m. ET Julian Assange will remain in a British prison after a U.K. court denied his request to go free on bail Wednesday, citing the U.S. government's ongoing attempts to extradite the WikiLeaks founder to face espionage charges. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser — who gave Assange a court victory earlier this week ...

4 Min Read WASHINGTON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, are facing multiple investigations by U.S. authorities, including three congressional probes and a federal criminal inquiry, sources familiar with the investigations said. Supporters of Hillary Clinton react at her election night rally in Manhattan, New York. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson The Senate and House of Representatives intelligence committees and leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee are probing the website’s role in the 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign, according to the sources, who all requested ano...

2.0, that he understood he was talking about the e-mails. the more relearn about whether assange knew he was conspiring with the russian government to undermine american democracy, that looks very different than if they just decided to move forward and charge him over the manning cables and such from 2010 and 2011 that before the obama era justice department was unwilling to go to court over. >> and, charlie, just briefly, do you read anything into jennifer robinson saying they've had no approach from the mueller inquiry? >> that was a great question to ask her. i've talked to as recently as y...