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Credit JOSE LUIS MAGANA / AP Thomas Gallagher, of Bridgewater, is the first person from New Hampshire who has been arrested and charged for participating in last week’s riot.  Gallagher is accused of knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, or knowingly, with intent to impede government business or official functions, engaging in disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. The second offense is violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. The arrest warrant states that Gallagher was part of a crowd that was quote “making loud...

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Then, the imaginary struggle also turned to real violence. But this time, no one seemed sorry. Dorothy Woodend is culture editor of The Tyee. Reach her here. SHARES The LARPer-esque raiders of the US Capitol are overly familiar to me. Photo by Manuel Balce Ceneta, the Associated Press. In Grade 4, our entire elementary school class went to war. In the woods behind the school we formed two armed camps and enacted battles, spy campaigns, raids and the occasional kidnapping and ransom. Announcements, Events & more from Tyee and select partners We’re hiring a newsle...

Update 11:35 a.m. 1-15-21: The Houston Chronicle has confirmed that the HPD officer who took part in last week’s D.C. riot and resigned Thursday is Tam Pham, an 18-year department veteran who was assigned to Westside Patrol. While HPD will still not publicly confirm that Pham is the officer in question (citing its ongoing investigation), Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo retweeted a Chron.com article on Thursday night that quoted the Chronicle’s interview with Pham, in which the now-former officer admitted that he was present at the Capitol riot. Acevedo on Thursday retweeted a Chron.co...

A third Democratic member of the House who was forced to go into lockdown during last week's violent siege at the U.S. Capitol has tested positive for COVID-19.