By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A police officer who suffered a brain injury at the hands of rioters during last year’s U.S. Capitol attack described the scenes of violence and chaos – including fellow officers bloodied and on the ground – in testimony on Thursday before the congressional panel investigating the assault. U.S. Capitol …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The first of six planned congressional hearings into the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol by then-President Donald Trump supporters made a prime-time television debut on Thursday. The U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack hearing included videotaped testimony from senior Trump White House officials …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who served under Donald Trump and resigned in 2019 amid an ethics probe, won the Republican Party nomination for the 1st district U.S. House of Representatives seat in Montana, Edison Research projected on Thursday. Zinke, who previously served in the House before joining the Trump administration, fended …
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By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump told a congressional panel investigating the U.S. Capitol attack that even she does not believe the former president’s false claims that his 2020 election defeat resulted from widespread voting fraud. Ivanka Trump, one of her father’s most trusted allies during his four …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Firefighters from Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, extracted two people from a vat of chocolate after they had fallen in earlier on Thursday, a communications supervisor for Lancaster County said. PennLive.com reported that the chocolate in the tank was about waist-high at the Mars Inc factory in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and that the people were …
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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former Proud Boys Chairman Enrique Tarrio and two other members of the far-right group on Thursday pleaded not guilty to seditious conspiracy charges that were filed against them earlier this week in connection with their alleged roles in storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The not-guilty …
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By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A divided U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the counting of undated mail-in ballots in an undecided 2021 election for a Pennsylvania judgeship in a case that again revealed the tensions among the justices over voting rights. The decision by the justices against David Ritter, a Republican candidate for …
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(Reuters) – Two men were arrested and charged with murder for a shooting over the weekend in a busy Philadelphia nightlife quarter in which two men and a woman were killed, authorities said on Thursday. Quadir Dukes Hill and Nahjee Whittington, both 18, were arrested by federal U.S. marshals in Richmond, Virginia, and are being …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two Georgia election officials that former President Donald Trump tried to pressure to “find” votes that would overturn his defeat in that state will testify to the hearings on the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, a source familiar said. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Gabriel Sterling, an …
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By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democratic and Republican negotiators in the U.S. Senate said they were not able to reach a deal on Thursday on a bipartisan response to recent U.S. mass shootings but vowed to continue their efforts. A group of lawmakers led by Democratic Senator Chris Murphy and Republican Senator John Cornyn are …
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