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- Biden forgoing Amtrak trip to D.C. over security fears
  President-elect Joe Biden will no longer be taking an Amtrak train to Washington for his inauguration because of security concerns.
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Prosecutor: Capitol rioter aimed 'to take hostages'
A retired Air Force officer who was part of the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol last week carried plastic zip-tie handcuffs because he intended “to take hostages,” a prosecut…
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Trump administration executes another federal inmate
Corey Johnson, who had intellectual disabilities, was killed while recovering from COVID-19, which medical experts say may have made the lethal injection execution process tort…
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DC pizza shop delivers hundreds of pies to National Guard stationed at the Capitol
Representatives Michael Waltz and Vicky Hartzler were spotted handing out pizzas to troops in the Capitol Visitor Center.
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Arizona GOP wants to censure Cindy McCain over gay marriage, Biden support
The Arizona Republican Party will vote on a measure to censure Cindy McCain, the widow of Sen. John McCain, on Jan. 23, in part because of her support for President-elect Joe B…
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Hospital fined over Covid outbreak traced to costume
A California hospital is facing a potential $43,000 fine from county health officials for alleged delays in reporting a Covid-19 super-spreader event linked to an inflatable Ch…
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Biden taps Jaime Harrison to serve as Democratic chairman
Jaime Harrison, the failed South Carolina Senate candidate and longtime Democratic Party official, is President-elect Joe Biden’s choice to lead the national party, according t…
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Secret Service barred from Jared and Ivanka's bathrooms
A Washington Post report revealed that agents had to go to extraordinary lengths to relieve themselves — including using a bathroom in the Obamas' nearby garage.
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Inside Trump’s final days: Aides struggle to contain an angry, isolated president
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - “We are going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue,” President Donald Trump exhorted his screaming supporters before they marched on the U.S. Capitol last we…
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GOP lawmaker buying body armor to protect against Trump supporters
Michigan Rep. Peter Meijer said that expense is "reimbursable," but added, "It’s sad that we have to get to that point.”
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Republican Party faces rage from both pro- and anti-Trump voters
After riots at the U.S. Capitol by President Donald Trump’s supporters, the Republican Party is facing defections from two camps of voters it can’t afford to lose: those saying…
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N.Y. attorney general sues NYPD alleging years of civil rights abuses, seeks a federal monitor
New York state Attorney General Letitia James sued the city of New York, the mayor and the police department's leaders on Thursday alleging that officers had committed civil ri…
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Harold Bornstein, Trump’s eccentric ex-doctor, dies
Dr. Harold Bornstein later accused Trump of sending men to "raid" his office and take medical records after disclosing a secret about the president's hair.
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'I'm alive,' says Frenchwoman fighting official ruling that she died
Sitting in her kitchen in France, Jeanne Pouchain remembers the day she discovered that she was dead. It was when she read an official letter from the court of appeal in the ne…
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Man who threw fire extinguisher at police arrested
A Pennsylvania man who allegedly threw a fire extinguisher at police during the riots at the U.S. Capitol has been arrested.
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Trump impeachment trial could begin on Inauguration Day
President Donald Trump's impeachment trial could begin on Inauguration Day, just as Democrat Joe Biden takes the oath of office in an extraordinary end to the defeated presiden…
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Trump's Mar-a-Lago warned over coronavirus mask violations
President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club's failure to enforce Palm Beach County's mask ordinance at its New Year's Eve bash has resulted in a warning but no fine or other punis…
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U.S. appeals court rules two murderers with COVID-19 can be executed in Trump's final week
A U.S. appeals court ordered that the last two scheduled federal executions under President Donald Trump's outgoing administration could proceed on Thursday and Friday, overtur…
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4th lawmaker tests positive for COVID-19 after Capitol attack
U.S. Representative Andriano Espaillat on Thursday said he had tested positive for COVID-19, becoming the fourth member of Congress to announce they had contracted the coronavi…
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Ex-Michigan health chief charged with manslaughter in Flint
Michigan's former health director was charged Thursday with involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of nine people who got Legionnaires' disease during the Flint water crisis as…

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Arizona GOP wants to censure Cindy McCain over gay marriage, Biden support

Hospital fined over Covid outbreak traced to costume

Biden taps Jaime Harrison to serve as Democratic chairman

Secret Service barred from Jared and Ivanka's bathrooms

Inside Trump’s final days: Aides struggle to contain an angry, isolated president

GOP lawmaker buying body armor to protect against Trump supporters

Republican Party faces rage from both pro- and anti-Trump voters

N.Y. attorney general sues NYPD alleging years of civil rights abuses, seeks a federal monitor

Harold Bornstein, Trump’s eccentric ex-doctor, dies

'I'm alive,' says Frenchwoman fighting official ruling that she died

Man who threw fire extinguisher at police arrested

Trump impeachment trial could begin on Inauguration Day

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