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    One of the many security checkpoints in Washington, D.C., ahead of Wednesday's inauguration ceremony.
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    Police Arrest Man With Handgun, Woman Impersonating Officer Near D.C. Checkpoints

    Jan 17, 2021
    In separate incidents over the weekend, police arrested a 63-year-old woman who claimed to be an officer and a 22-year-old man carrying a firearm, high-capacity magazines and unregistered ammunition.
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    Insurrection At The Capitol: Live Updates
    Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., has come under heavy criticism for objecting to Electoral College results during Congress' certification of President-elect Joe Biden's win.
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    Loews Hotels Drops Fundraiser For Sen. Josh Hawley After Capitol Riot

    Jan 17, 2021
    The hotel company is the latest to sever ties with the Republican senator following his objection to Electoral College results during Congress' certification of President-elect Joe Biden's win.
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    Health

    Federal Deal To Increase Vaccine Production Could Give Some Employees Early Access

    Jan 17, 2021
    A federal manufacturing contract to increase COVID-19 vaccine production has an unusual clause that could move a company's employees and their families to the front of the vaccination line.
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    Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General Analyzes The Violent Riot At The Capitol

    Jan 17, 2021
    Can you call the events of Jan. 6 an insurgency? NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling what he thinks based on his experiences in Iraq.
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    State Capitals Strengthen Security Ahead Of Inauguration Day

    Jan 17, 2021
    Officials in state capitals across the U.S. are guarding against potential violence. Authorities have boarded up buildings, installed protective fencing, and called up the National Guard.
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    Food
    Adán Medrano, chef and food writer, savors a beef cheek taco at Vera's Backyard Bar-B-Que in Texas' Rio Grande Valley.
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    'Where The Magic Happens': Following A Tasty Taco Trail In South Texas

    Jan 17, 2021
    In Brownsville, Texas, two Mexican restaurants are pushing the envelope of what a corn tortilla can envelop, and an award-winning cafe cooks barbacoa the old-fashioned way.
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    How Washington, D.C. Is Preparing For President-Elect Joe Biden's Inauguration

    Jan 17, 2021
    Washington, D.C., is fortified in advance of the inaugural proceedings Jan. 20.
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    Technology
    Gab was founded in 2016 as an almost anti-Twitter. The platform embraces far-right and other extremist provocateurs, including Milo Yiannopoulos and Alex Jones, who have been banned from Facebook and Twitter over incendiary posts.
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    Social Media Site Gab Is Surging, Even As Critics Blame It For Capitol Violence

    Jan 17, 2021
    As federal investigators begin to launch criminal cases against some of the perpetrators of the violence, a growing chorus of advocates and lawmakers say tech companies bear some responsibility, too.
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    Politics

    Masculinity's Big Role In Trump's Presidency

    Jan 17, 2021
    President Trump encouraged his supporters to "fight" before the assault on the Capitol, echoing the kind of macho message that has defined his political career.
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    Politics
    Pro-Trump protesters seeking to force Congress to overturn the election results swarm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, two weeks before President-elect Joe Biden is scheduled to gives his inaugural address there.
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    In His Inaugural Address, Biden Seeks To Move Past 'American Carnage'

    Jan 17, 2021
    With the country reeling from the pandemic, racial injustice and the Capitol riot, President-elect Joe Biden must transcend the "typical gauzy appeals to national unity" of past inaugural addresses.
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    Insurrection At The Capitol: Live Updates
    The federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Ind., is pictured in August 2020. All federal prisons in the United States have been placed on lockdown. Law enforcement agencies are taking measures in the aftermath of Jan. 6 insurrection and over concerns of
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    Federal Prisons On Lockdown Because Of 'Current Events'

    Jan 16, 2021
    The Bureau of Prisons said Saturday it was securing all of its facilities as a precautionary measure. The agency did not specify the length of the lockdown, but said it was a temporary measure.
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    Insurrection At The Capitol: Live Updates
    The Capitol seen on Saturday.
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    Man Arrested Near Capitol With Loaded Handgun And 500 Rounds Of Ammunition

    Jan 16, 2021
    Wesley Allen Beeler presented unauthorized inauguration credentials Friday night, police said. Beeler admitted to having the handgun in his pickup truck, according to police.
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    Insurrection At The Capitol: Live Updates
    A memorial for U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who was killed by rioters in the Jan. 6 attack, is set up near the U.S. Capitol.
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    House Lawmakers Open Investigation Into Capitol Attack

    Jan 16, 2021
    They want to know what the intelligence community knew about the planned attack and why officials didn't prepare more thoroughly.
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    Insurrection At The Capitol: Live Updates
    A member of the Virginia National Guard stands outside the razor wire fencing surrounding the U.S. Capitol on Friday. Up to 25,000 troops are expected by Inauguration Day.
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    Up To 25,000 Troops Descend On Washington For Biden's Inauguration

    Jan 16, 2021
    The nation prepares for an inauguration unlike any in the country's history amid a massive effort to avoid a repeat of the U.S. Capitol attack.
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    Simon Says
    A vast majority of self-identified Republicans do not consider President Trump to blame for the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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    Opinion: The Fringe Of America's Fabric

    Jan 16, 2021
    NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the upcoming presidential inauguration of Joe Biden in the wake of last week's deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol.
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    Law
    This 2015 photo provided by Shawn Nolan Chief, Capital Habeas Unit Community Federal Defender Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, shows Dustin Higgs at the Federal Prison in Terre Haute, Ind.
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    U.S. Executes Dustin Higgs In 13th And Final Execution Under Trump Administration

    Jan 15, 2021
    Higgs had been sentenced to death for the 1996 killings of three women. His lawyers had tried to argue that his diagnosis of COVID-19 would make death by lethal injection "cruel."
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    National
    The National Rifle Association's annual meeting in 2019 in Indiana. The NRA filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Friday, saying it aims to reincorporate as a nonprofit in Texas and leave New York, where the state has filed a fraud suit against it.
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    NRA Files For Bankruptcy Amid Fraud Suit In New York

    Jan 15, 2021
    The NRA aims to relocate to Texas, away from the "corrupt political ... environment" of New York. The state's attorney general says officials diverted millions of dollars to their personal expenses.
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    Investigations
    "People will not be subject to age or disability discrimination when the going gets tough," Roger Severino, the director of the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services, told NPR.
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    HHS Civil Rights Office Tackles Health Care Discrimination Of People With Disabilities

    Jan 15, 2021
    New actions from the Office For Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services aim to fight discrimination against people with disabilities who have COVID-19, like being denied treatment.
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    Politics
    U.S. park rangers look at the spot where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., on Friday. Security threats have prompted officials to shut down the National Mall
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    'All Hands On Deck': National Mall Is Closed As Agencies Fortify D.C.

    Jan 15, 2021
    The National Park Service cites the "real and substantial threat of violence and unlawful behavior" at the upcoming inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.
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    Coronavirus Updates
    Dr. David Kessler (top right during a briefing before the election) has been a top coronavirus adviser to President-elect Joe Biden for months.
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    Biden Administration Will Rename 'Operation Warp Speed,' Citing Trump 'Failures'

    Jan 15, 2021
    The Biden transition team also announced that Dr. David Kessler will be the White House's chief science officer for the COVID-19 response.
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    America Reckons With Racial Injustice
    In 2017, Sean Urbanski (right) approached and fatally stabbed Army 1st Lt. Richard Collins III as he waited for a ride-share, on the University of Maryland, College Park campus.
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    White Man Gets Life In Prison For Killing Black Army 1st Lt. Richard Collins III

    Jan 15, 2021
    Sean Urbanski, 25, was convicted of murdering Collins in 2017. Limitations in Maryland's hate crime statute that exempted Urbanski led to a change in the law.
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    Business
    Workers at an Amazon fulfillment center on Staten Island in New York City and across the U.S. have not been unionized. That could change in Alabama.
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    Amazon Warehouse Workers To Decide Whether To Form Company's 1st U.S. Union

    Jan 15, 2021
    Although the company has unionized workers in Europe, it has held off organizing efforts here. About 6,000 workers at an Amazon facility in Alabama can cast a mail-in ballot starting Feb. 8.
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    Criminal Justice Collaborative
    Pro-Trump supporters breeched security and stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Federal authorities as well as several local departments are looking into whether any off-duty officers were involved in the attack.
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    Off-Duty Police Officers Investigated, Charged With Participating In Capitol Riot

    Jan 15, 2021
    More than two dozen off-duty officers attended the pro-Trump rally. Many celebrated on social media at the time. But now they could face federal charges and find themselves out of a job.
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    Coronavirus Updates
    Medical personnel prone a COVID-19 patient last November at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in the Mission Hills section of Los Angeles.
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    Pandemic Shortens U.S. Life Expectancy, Study Concludes

    Jan 15, 2021
    The deaths caused by the pandemic appear to be shortening overall life expectancy in the U.S. by 1.13 years, which would be the largest single decline in at least 40 years.
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    Shots - Health News
    President-elect Joe Biden has released a $1.9 trillion proposal to help control the pandemic and bring economic relief to Americans.
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    'We're In A War With This Virus': Biden Lays Out COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Plan

    Jan 15, 2021
    President-Elect Joe Biden shares details of how his administration hopes to tackle the country's public health crisis. It's an aggressive plan that he needs Congress to fund.

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