NEW YORK — A printing company in Maryland saw the photo on Twitter Wednesday night: an employee roaming the halls of the U.S. Capitol with a company badge around his neck. He was fired the next day. Others are facing similar repercussions at work for their participation in Wednesday's riot at the...
Police Officer’s Death Intensifies Capitol Siege Questions
WASHINGTON — A police officer has died from injuries sustained as President Donald Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol, a violent siege that is forcing hard questions about the defeated president's remaining days in office and the ability of the Capitol Police to secure the area. The U.S. Capitol Police said...
Capitol Police Rejected Offers of Federal Help to Quell Mob
WASHINGTON — Three days before the pro-President Donald Trump riot at the Capitol, the Pentagon asked the U.S Capitol Police if it needed National Guard manpower. And as the mob descended on the building Wednesday, Justice Department leaders reached out to offer up FBI agents. The police turned them down both times, according to a defense...
Even GOP Loyalists Agree: Donald Trump Is Done
"This is a [expletive] disaster. #MAGA is dead." I got that message Wednesday evening from a diehard activist who worked on the 2020 Trump campaign, as the true horror of what happened at the U.S. Capitol hit home. It was a burst of honest anger and betrayal, but as it...
Woman Shot at Capitol Was Air Force Veteran Who Backed Trump
SAN DIEGO — The woman who was fatally shot when a mob supporting President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol was identified by authorities Thursday as Ashli Babbitt, whose family described her as an Air Force veteran and avid supporter of Trump and his efforts to stay in office. A...
Capitol Police Chief Defends Response to ‘Criminal’ Rioters
WASHINGTON — Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund on Thursday defended his department's response to the violent breach at the Capitol, saying officers “acted valiantly when faced with thousands of individuals involved in violent riotous actions” as they stormed the building. Rioters “actively attacked” Capitol police and other law enforcement officers...
A Moment in America, Unimaginable but Perhaps Inevitable
To see it unspool — to watch the jumbled images ricochet, live, across the world's endless screens — was, as an American, a struggle to believe your eyes. But there it was, in the capital city of the United States in early January 2021, a real-time breaking and entering the...
Lawmakers Will Resume Work After US Capitol Stormed by Pro-Trump Mob
A violent mob loyal to President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday and forced lawmakers into hiding, in a stunning attempt to overturn America’s presidential election, undercut the nation’s democracy and keep Democrat Joe Biden from replacing Trump in the White House. The nation’s elected representatives scrambled to...
Woman Shot Inside US Capitol During Riot has Died, Source Say
A woman who was shot inside the U.S. Capitol during Wednesday's violent pro-Trump protest has died. That’s according to two officials familiar with the matter who spoke to The Associated Press on Wednesday on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to speak publicly. The Metropolitan Police Department said it...
Media Captures Unprecedented Storming of US Capitol
NEW YORK — The storming of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump played out on national television and social media in searing fashion Wednesday. The pictures were stunning: security officials with guns drawn on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, people fighting with police in...