A 36-year-old man lived undetected in a secure section of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport for three months because he was “too scared” to go home due to COVID-19, US prosecutors say. Aditya Singh is charged with felony criminal trespass to a restricted area of an airport and misdemeanour theft. According to police, he arrived in […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The US Capitol was shut down temporarily on Monday (Jan 18) out of an abundance of caution after a fire broke out near the complex, the Capitol Police said, underscoring security jitters days before President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. “There is no threat to the public,” the US Secret Service said in a tweet. […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The US Capitol was shut down temporarily on Monday (Jan 18) out of an abundance of caution after a fire broke out near the complex, the Capitol Police said, underscoring security jitters days before President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. “There is no threat to the public,” the US Secret Service said in a tweet. […]
President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. plans to start his administration with dozens of executive directives on top of expansive legislative proposals in a 10-day blitz meant to signal a turning point for a nation reeling from disease, economic turmoil, racial strife and now the aftermath of the assault on the Capitol. Mr. Biden’s team has […]
A Donald Trump supporter traveled to the US Capitol riots by private jet for a date – only for her suitor to ditch her for another woman. Jenna Ryan, 50, agreed to attend the ‘Save America’ rally after receiving a Facebook message from a ‘really cute guy.’ But Ryan, from Dallas in Texas, ended up […]
Fears about a potential insider attack at Joe Biden’s inauguration have prompted the FBI to vet all 25,000 National Guard troops who will be on duty. Officials are taking “second, third looks at every one of the individuals”, said US Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy. Guard members are also getting training on how to identify potential […]
WASHINGTON – Over the past eight weeks, United States President-elect Joe Biden steadily unveiled the men and women he chose to fill out his Cabinet and the senior echelons of his administration. But few of them, if any, will be installed by the time Mr Biden is sworn in as President on Wednesday (Jan 20). […]
Representative Peter Meijer acknowledged on Sunday that “I may very well have” ended my career after joining nine other Republicans who voted last week to impeach President Trump. But in an appearance on ABC’s “This Week,” Mr. Meijer — a Michigan freshman who succeeded Justin Amash, who joined the House as a Republican but became […]
As thousands of National Guard troops continued to flow into Washington ahead of Inauguration Day, the Pentagon on Sunday sent another strong signal to Iran and other potential adversaries in the Middle East not to exploit the nation’s focus on domestic terrorist threats to carry out attacks against Americans in the region. The military’s Central […]
HARRISBURG/LANSING (REUTERS) – Law enforcement officers far outnumbered protesters at state capitol grounds on Sunday (Jan 17), as few Trump supporters who believe the president’s false claim that he won the 2020 election turned out for what authorities feared could be violent demonstrations. More than a dozen states activated National Guard troops to help secure […]