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Americans should not be concerned about potential nuclear war, Biden says – as it happened

Biden’s comments come one day after Vladimir Putin directed Russian military leaders to transfer the country’s nuclear weapons to a “special mode of combat duty”.

The Guardian - US

Many Capitol riot cases could hinge on 1st trial's outcome

A Texas man charged with storming the U.S. Capitol with a holstered handgun on his waist is the first Jan. 6 defendant to go on trial

The Independent UK

Trump claims he knows nothing about desperate text messages sent to his team by Sean Hannity during Capitol riot

Former president praises Fox News host as a ‘talented person’ who gets ‘fantastic ratings’

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US Capitol fencing is reinstalled ahead of trucker protests

WASHINGTON — Temporary fencing is being reinstalled around the U.S. Capitol as federal security officials brace for protesting truckers to reach the Washington area, possibly to coincide with President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address Tuesday.

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"Free, white and over 21" lives on today

The "free, White, and over 21" mentality was well represented among those who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6

Salon

Fence being reinstalled around US Capitol for Biden speech

Officials plan to reinstall the fence around the U.S. Capitol that had stood for months after the January 2021 insurrection

The Independent UK

Capitol rioter inspired by Trump golf ball is sentenced to prison

A lawyer for Mariposa Castro says she met Donald Trump in 2006 after nearly getting hit by one of his golf balls

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A Florida man who became one of the most recognized Capitol rioters gets jail time

MIAMI — Adam Johnson became one of the most recognizable faces of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol after a photo of him smiling with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s lectern went viral. On Friday, he was sentenced.

Miami Herald

Pelosi’s lectern poser sentenced

Adam Johnson, caught posing with Nancy Pelosi's lectern during the Capitol riot, will also pay a $5,000 fine

Salon

Capitol rioter who carried Pelosi’s lectern sentenced to prison

Man pictured waving and smiling while carrying House speaker’s lectern sentenced to 75 days in prison

The Independent UK

Roger Stone sues Jan. 6 committee to block phone records release

Republican political operative Roger Stone sued to block the release of his phone records to a House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

Tribune News Service

New Yorker teams with Celadon for book on Jan. 6 report

The New Yorker is collaborating with a division of Macmillan Publishers on a book edition of the House Select Committee’s planned report on the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol a year ago by supporters of then-President Donald Trump

The Independent UK

Federal officials charge Michigan man in Jan. 6 siege at US Capitol

A Michigan man was arrested Tuesday in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, siege at the U.S. Capitol, federal officials said.

Tribune News Service

Truckers headed to Washington DC want ‘justice’ for Ashli Babbitt who was killed taking part in Capitol riot

The organiser’s truck immediately suffered two flat tires

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Dennis Anderson: Wyoming’s present could be Minnesota’s CWD future.

At the Capitol, Gov. Tim Walz and legislators again this session seem willing to keep Minnesota deer and elk farmers in business, while hoping simultaneously to quell the growing disquiet among hunters over the spread of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in the state's approximately 1 million wild whitetails.

The Independent UK

Pelosi ‘monitoring’ possible trucker convoy protest headed for Washington DC

Law enforcement agencies in DC, Maryland, Virginia, and at the US Capitol have ramped up security

Chicago Sun-Times

Feds arrest man who says he ‘stayed on the front lines’ during Capitol breach

Authorities say Athanasios Zoyganeles lives in Chicago. That would make him the 27th known Illinois resident charged in connection with the riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Tribune News Service

Capitol insurgent from San Diego area sentenced to 3 months in prison in tentative ruling

SAN DIEGO — A former longtime Coronado resident was tentatively sentenced to three months in prison Tuesday for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol rampage, an attack that federal prosecutors called "a criminal offense unparalleled in American history."

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The Independent UK

Pentagon expected to OK National Guard for DC truck convoys

A U.S. official says the Pentagon is likely to approve 700 to 800 unarmed National Guard troops in response to requests for assistance by the District of Columbia and the U.S. Capitol Police ahead of planned truck convoys

Los Angeles Times

Capitol Police request National Guard as trucker convoy expected for State of the Union

WASHINGTON — The Department of Defense is considering a request from U.S. Capitol Police and the Washington, D.C., government to have the National Guard help respond to an expected truck convoy aimed at disrupting traffic around the Capitol ahead of the March 1 State of the Union.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Will Bunch: Right now, a US toddler is starving because of Senate cowards

It was two years ago this month that a working single mom turned anti-poverty activist from Wheeling, West Virginia, named Amy Jo Hutchison sat before a U.S. House committee on Capitol Hill and tried to educate members of Congress about the relentless hard work of being poor in America in…

The Independent UK

US Capitol security fencing may remain to keep copycat trucker protest from disrupting State of the Union

Prominent conservatives are hoping a US copycat of Canadian trucker protests will energise opposition to the Democratic Party

Evening Standard

Donald Trump’s new social media app hit with teething trouble after launch

Truth Social marks former president’s return to social media after being banned in wake of Capitol insurrection

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: How fake electors tried to throw result to Trump

State attorneys general and the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol are digging deeper into the role that fake slates of electors played in the desperate effort by former President Donald Trump to cling to power after his 2020 defeat

The Guardian - US

‘This should terrify the nation’: the Trump ally seeking to run Arizona’s elections

Mark Finchem, a supporter of the ex-president’s ‘big lie’ about the 2020 election, could soon oversee voting in the state

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