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1/8/2021 12:29:52 PM
A U.S. Capitol Police officer, Brian Sicknick, has died of injuries suffered when supporters of President Trump assaulted the legislative building, the force said, bringing to five the number dead from the riot
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1/7/2021 4:18:38 PM
"Even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election, and the facts bear me out, nevertheless there will be an orderly transition on January 20th," Trump said in a statement
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1/7/2021 4:18:03 PM
The scene that unfolded — pushing through police barricades, breaking windows, then occupying seats of power — was one that Americans are accustomed to watching in distant lands with authoritarian regimes
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1/7/2021 12:45:07 PM
The siege of the Capitol, home to both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives, represents one of the gravest security lapses in recent U.S. history, current and former law enforcement officials said
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1/7/2021 12:31:38 PM
US President Trump said on Thursday there will be an orderly transition when Joe Biden takes office as president in less than two weeks, after Congress certified the Democrat’s victory in the Nov. 3 election
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1/7/2021 12:08:43 PM
Konstantin Kosachyov, the chair of the Russian upper house's foreign affairs committee, said the stunning events in the US capital showed that Washington had no right to lecture other countries on democracy
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1/7/2021 11:12:44 AM
Lawmakers in the Senate and House of Representatives successfully beat back Republican efforts to deny Biden the electoral votes from swing states Arizona and Pennsylvania
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1/7/2021 11:12:22 AM
Democrat Biden was cleared to be sworn in as U.S. president when Vice President Pence declared that Congress had confirmed the Electoral College tally of states’ results that showed Biden the winner of the Nov. 3 contest
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1/7/2021 10:23:51 AM
Lawmakers in the House voted 282-138 against the objection as the counting of Electoral College votes continued into the early hours of Thursday morning
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1/7/2021 10:14:26 AM
The US Capitol was overrun by violent supporters of Trump, who exhorted them to march on the domed building as lawmakers inside carried out their constitutional duty by certifying his electoral defeat
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1/7/2021 9:42:53 AM
Trump, who has refused to concede his loss to Biden, had urged his supporters multiple times to come to Washington for a rally on Wednesday, the day the Congress was scheduled to certify the results of the Electoral College
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1/7/2021 8:06:58 AM
Trump and his allies have produced no evidence to support their claims that he was robbed of victory by fraud and the efforts to challenge the results look certain to fail.
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1/6/2021 10:31:46 PM
Hundreds of Trump supporters overturned barricades and clashed with police on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol where Congress abruptly recessed a meeting to certify Biden's electoral win
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1/6/2021 9:41:02 PM
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1/6/2021 9:34:41 PM
“You don’t concede when there’s theft involved,” Trump said after taking the stage, “Our country has had enough and we will not take it any more”
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1/6/2021 8:56:01 PM
Police told congressional staff members they should evacuate the Cannon House Office Building and the building that houses the Library of Congress. It wasn’t immediately clear what specifically sparked the evacuation
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1/6/2021 7:13:03 PM
Jon Ossoff, a documentary filmmaker who at 33 would become the Senate’s youngest member, also declared victory with a narrow lead over incumbent David Perdue
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1/6/2021 4:57:36 PM
The US Congress will convene on Wednesday to set the seal on President-elect Biden’s victory in what is expected to be an unusually contentious and drawn-out proceeding because of planned objections by Republicans
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1/3/2021 4:38:15 PM
In a brief order, a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals upheld a federal judge’s decision to toss US Representative Gohmert’s lawsuit, which had argued that Pence had the power to invalidate Biden’s win
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12/21/2020 10:03:01 PM
Outgoing Attorney General William Barr said he saw “no reason” to appoint a special counsel on potential election fraud or the tax investigation into the son of President-elect Joe Biden
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