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The U.S. Capitol underwent a lockdown on Monday after reports of an “external security threat,” prompting evacuations and warnings sent to staff. Per NBC News, staff at the Capitol were sent a message to inform them of the developing situation. “All buildings within the Capitol Complex: External security threat, no entry or exit is permitted, […]
Sadly, the 2008 Coen Brothers crime comedy Burn After Reading wasn’t trending early Monday morning as a result of a random communal appreciation of the somewhat overlooked entry in the auteurial duo’s catalog. Instead, this increasingly tiresome existential trap known as Reality has birthed a troublingly Burn After Reading-esque story about one of the participants […]
Trump is expected to issue around 100 pardons and commutations on the final full day of his single-term presidency, according to a new report. Early Monday, i.e. the first day of a week that will feature Joe Biden‘s inauguration, CNN reported the failed steak salesman—at least according to three sources close to such talks—is prepping […]
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has told Sky News that all UK adults should be offered the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine by September, with the hope some of the current lockdown restrictions can be lifted by March. “Our target is that by September to have offered all the adult population a first dose,” he said. “If we […]
Sen. Lindsey Graham has implored Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer not to hold an impeachment trial for Donald Trump once he’s exited office because it would “incite further division” and prolong the U.S.’s “healing.” The New York Post reports that Graham wrote in a letter to Schumer that he should hold a vote to reject the […]
Former president Barack Obama wished the former first lady and his wife Michelle a happy birthday on Sunday, in celebration of her 57th birthday. “Happy birthday to my love, my partner, and my best friend,” Obama wrote on Instagram, alongside a photo of a younger Michelle in a yellow tank top. “Every moment with you […]
Tim Gionet, a far-right media figure known as “Baked Alaska,” has been arrested for his involvement in the U.S. Capitol siege. The Associated Press press reports FBI agents arrested Gionet in Houston on Saturday, just 10 days after a mob of Trump-supporters stormed the Capitol in an attempt to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s victory. A Department of Justice criminal complaint states Gionet has been charged with […]
A Capitol police officer who was suspended after footage of him wearing a Make America Great Again hat went viral said he was wearing the pro-Donald Trump merch as part of a plan to help trapped members of the Capitol Police. Lt. Tarik Johnson’s fellow officers claim he used the hat to gain the trust of rioters, so […]
Washington D.C. police officers who attempted to hold back mobs of pro-Trump rioters, including one who was crushed by a door in a moment that has since gone viral, are speaking out about the experience. “They were calling us traitors, shouting at us, telling us to remember our oath, and eventually, they attacked us,” Officer Daniel […]
Dustin Higgs, the last person to be executed under the Trump administration, died Saturday morning at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana. Higgs was pronounced dead at 1:23 a.m., becoming the 13th federal prisoner put to death under Trump since July and the third execution this week. The 48-year-old father was convicted in […]
