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12:11 PM

Lawmakers vow to investigate police after Capitol breach

Lawmakers are vowing an investigation into how Capitol police handled Wednesday's violent breach at the Capitol, questioning whether a lack of preparedness allowed the mob to occupy and vandalize the building.

 

Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., chairwoman of the House Administration Committee, said the breach raises grave security concerns,? adding that her committee will work with House and Senate leaders to review the police response - and its preparedness - to a violent mob loyal to President Donald Trump that stormed the Capitol and forced lawmakers into hiding.

 

The incident forced lawmakers to crouch under desks and don gas marks, while police futilely tried to barricade the building. A woman was shot and killed inside the Capitol, and Washington's mayor instituted an evening curfew in an attempt to contain the violence.

12:00 PM

President Trump is 'menace', must be removed and held accountable for Capitol attack: US media

Donald Trump, whose "seditious rhetoric" incited a violent attack on the Capitol, is a "menace" and is unfit to remain in office and must be removed, US media outlets have asserted, as they tore into the American President, demanding that he be held accountable through impeachment proceedings or criminal prosecution.

 

Thousands of Trump's supporters stormed the US Capitol and clashed with police on Wednesday, resulting in at least the death of four persons and interrupting a constitutional process to affirm President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the election.

 

In an editorial titled 'Trump is to blame for Capitol attack', The New York Times said, "President Trump and his Republican enablers in Congress incited a violent attack Wednesday against the government they lead and the nation they profess to love. This cannot be allowed to stand."

 

The NYT editorial said Trump's "seditious rhetoric" prompted a mob of thousands of people to storm the US Capitol building, some breaking onto the House and Senate floors, where the nation's elected representatives had gathered to perform their constitutional duty of counting electoral votes and confirming the election of Joe Biden as president.

 

The Washington Post in an editorial titled 'Trump caused the assault on the Capitol. He must be removed' said the president's "refusal to accept his election defeat and his relentless incitement of his supporters led Wednesday to the unthinkable: an assault on the US Capitol by a violent 

11:40 AM

Supporters of President Trump vandalized Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office

Supporters of President Trump vandalized Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office Wednesday after storming the Capitol in protest of the certification of the Electoral College results.

 

A member of the mob was photographed sitting at a desk in Pelosi's suite of offices, an American flag draped on a desk behind him.

 

Rioters flipped over tables and tore down photographs from the walls, according to The New York Times.

11:28 AM

Former Andhra Pradesh minister Bhuma Akhila Priya arrested in kidnapping case

Former Andhra Pradesh Tourism minister Bhuma Akhila Priya was arrested Wednesday in connection with the dramatic abduction of three businessmen Praveen Rao, Sunil Rao and Naveen Rao—all of them siblings— in Hyderabad. The three brothers were whisked away from their residence Tuesday night by a group of kidnappers who posed as Income Tax officials, after detaining other family members in another room. The TDP leader, according to police, is alleged to have planned and executed the abduction.

11:20 AM

Officials discussing 25th Amendment for Trump following violence at Capitol

Officials discussing 25th Amendment for Trump following violence at Capitol

11:13 AM

US election result: Senator Romney says: "President Trump lost. I've had that experience myself. It's no fun!"

11:10 AM

US election result: Nevada's electoral votes were challenged, but no senator signed on to the objection

Nevada's electoral votes were challenged by Republican representatives, but no senator signed on to the objection.

11:01 AM

US lawmakers seek immediate removal of Trump as supporters attack Capitol

Several US lawmakers have demanded immediate removal of President Donald Trump from office, alleging that he incited his supporters who stormed the Capitol in an unprecedented incident that has dented the democracy of America. Read on...

10:53 AM

BCCI President Sourav Ganguly discharged from Kolkata's Woodlands Hospital

10:51 AM

Sickening and heartbreaking sight: Former Prez Bush on US Capitol attack

Former US President George W Bush on Wednesday (local time) called "insurrection" at the Capitol a "sickening, heartbreaking sight" and said this is how election results are disputed in a banana republic, not our democratic republic.

 

"Laura and I are watching the scenes of mayhem unfolding at the seat of our nation's government in disbelief and dismay. It is a sickening and heartbreaking sight. This is how election results are disputed in a banana republic, not our democratic republic," the former President said in a statement. Read on...

10:48 AM

Four dead after hundreds of Trump supporters attacked US Capitol Hill

Four people died as supporters of President Donald Trump violently occupied the US Capitol.

 

Washington DC Police Chief Robert Contee said the dead on Wednesday included a woman who was shot by the US Capitol Police, as well as three others who died in medical emergencies".

 

Police said both law enforcement and Trump supporters deployed chemical irritants during the hours-long occupation of the Capitol building before it was cleared Wednesday evening by law enforcement.

 

The woman was shot earlier Wednesday as the mob tried to break through a barricaded door in the Capitol where police were armed on the other side. She was hospitalised with a gunshot wound and later died. Read on...

10:37 AM

Condemn the violence that took place: Mike Pence

10:14 AM

Joe Biden, Kamala Harris are lawfully elected, says Lindsey Graham

9:31 AM

US Senate rejects challenge to President-elect Biden's Arizona win

The Senate has overwhelmingly turned aside a challenge to US President-elect Joe Biden's victory in Arizona, guaranteeing the result will stand.

 

The objection to the results in Arizona -- spearheaded by Rep. Paul Gosar and Sen. Ted Cruz -- was rejected 93-6 on Wednesday night.

 

All votes in favour came from Republicans, but after violent protesters mobbed the Capitol earlier Wednesday a number of GOP senators who had planned to support the objection reversed course. Read on...

9:03 AM

US lawmakers reconvene to certify Electoral College votes after the violence

US lawmakers reconvene to certify Electoral College votes after the violence at the US Capitol in Washington DC