Jan. 10 (UPI) -- A Capitol Police officer who responded to the siege on the Capitol building by supporters of President Donald Trump on Wednesday died while off duty on Saturday, the U.S. Capitol Police said. Officer Howard Liebengood, 51, who was assigned to the Senate Division and had been with the department since April…

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Watch: Kamala Harris' Most Memed MomentsTalk about a well-deserved promotion.  Eugene Goodman, a Capitol police officer, escorted the nation's very first female vice president (and first VP of color) Kamala Harris at the 2021 presidential inauguration.  Just two weeks before the Jan. 20 festivities, Goodman heroically led rioters away from the Senate chamber after the Capitol Building…

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JACKSON, Miss. (AP)– Loaded elevators and congested committee spaces. Lawmakers sitting shoulder-to-shoulder on the House and Senate flooring. People standing near to each other and talking, often leaning in to whisper, without a mask in sight. Those prevailed scenes at the Mississippi Capitol in June– a month that saw a historical vote to get rid […]

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Protesters rallied outside of the Tennessee state Capitol Wednesday after lawmakers voted to keep a bust of a Confederate basic and Ku Klux Klan leader on full display screen in the capitol, following arguments that eliminating it would remove history and might be offensive to some. A House committee in Nashville voted 11 to 5 […]

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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) stated Wednesday she would support a ban on weapons inside the state Capitol building following a remarkable protest versus her coronavirus stay-at-home order by people bring attack rifles. Whitmer informed NBC News on Wednesday that legislators must not be frightened when they go to work throughout the pandemic. More than […]

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A United States senator has stated some colleagues used bulletproof vests as protesters with attack rifles went into the Michigan State Capitol on Thursday. Numerous people, a few of them armed, went to the “American Patriot Rally” versus extending the coronavirus lockdown in the state. Authorities permitted more than 100 to enter the structure, where […]

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