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U.S., Chinese defence ministers meet face-to-face, seeking to avoid misunderstandings

U.S. and Chinese defence ministers met on Friday for their first in-person talks since the start of President Joe Biden's administration, trying to ensure that broader tensions between the two countries do not spill over into military misunderstandings or miscommunication, officials said.

Reuters · Jun 10, 2022

Five key moments from the January 6 Capitol riot hearing

WASHINGTON: A House committee investigating the Capitol insurrection opened its series of public hearings with dramatic testimony from an injured US Capitol Police officer, a video appearance by former President Donald Trump's daughter, Ivanka, and intense footage from the Jan. 6, 2021, riot. Here are five key moments:

The Times of India · Jun 10, 2022

Laying bare Trump’s coup attempt, Jan. 6 hearings forced us not to look away

Viewers who tuned in Thursday to the first night of public hearings by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection were not Washington political theater as usual. On the contrary, the broadcast portion of the largest-scale investigation in congressional history was a clean, concise production of real substance.…

Los Angeles Times · Jun 10, 2022

This weekend brings another March For Our Lives

WASHINGTON — David Hogg is exhausted.

Tribune News Service · Jun 10, 2022

Jan. 6 attack on Capitol the ‘culmination of an attempted coup,’ chairman says

WASHINGTON — Americans watching the first Jan. 6 Select Committee hearing Thursday night were jolted back to the horror of the Capitol attack in early 2021, with the panel deploying never-before-seen footage of violence and graphic, emotional testimony from an officer wounded in the melee to place then-President Donald Trump…

Los Angeles Times · Jun 10, 2022

Jan. 6 attack on Capitol the ‘culmination of an attempted coup,’ chairman says

WASHINGTON — As rioters battered police and stormed inside the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, then-President Donald Trump grew angry with advisers pleading with him to do something, Vice Chairwoman Liz Cheney said Thursday in the first hearing by the House select committee investigating the attack.

Los Angeles Times · Jun 10, 2022

Ivanka Trump says she believed AG Barr that her father lost 2020 election

WASHINGTON — Ivanka Trump, the daughter of Donald Trump and a former White House adviser, said she accepted that there was no evidence of fraud and that her father had lost the 2020 election.

Tribune News Service · Jun 10, 2022

Jan. 6 hearings to lay out ‘scheme ... to undermine the will of the people,’ chairman says

WASHINGTON — The House Select Committee investigating what caused the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol is beginning a series of hearings Thursday evening by laying out its evidence of a coordinated effort to stop certification of the 2020 presidential election and keep former President Donald Trump in office.

Los Angeles Times · Jun 10, 2022

Cornyn calls Uvalde killer ‘ticking time bomb,’ sees progress on Senate gun deal

WASHINGTON — Sen. John Cornyn said Thursday the 18-year-old responsible for the Uvalde school massacre fit an all-too-common profile of mass shooters: alienated young men with mental health issues.

Tribune News Service · Jun 9, 2022

Three people shot dead after gunman opens fire at manufacturing plant

The shooter targeted the Columbia Machine Inc facility in Maryland, Washington, this afternoon at around 2:30pm in America's 250th reported mass shooting in 2022

Daily Mirror · Jun 9, 2022