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Year: 2021

Security video shows protesters entering the Oregon Capitol building after legislator allegedly opens door

Security footage released Friday shows protesters entering the Oregon Capitol last month after a Republican state legislator allegedly opened a side door and walked out. Oregon State Police have opened an investigation into state Rep. Mike Nearman’s actions, according to spokesman Timothy Fox. CNN has reached out to Nearman’s office but has not received a

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Feds say police found a truck full of bombs and guns near Capitol insurrection as wide-ranging investigation unfurls

An Alabama man allegedly parked a pickup truck packed with 11 homemade bombs, an assault rifle and a handgun two blocks from the US Capitol building on Wednesday for hours before authorities ever noticed, according to federal prosecutors. The revelation is one of the most unsettling details federal prosecutors have made public this week as

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Racial justice leaders are reeling from the ‘hypocrisy’ in the police response to the US Capitol riots

After police forced her away from the White House with flash bangs and pepper spray, Allison Lane and dozens of people who were peacefully protesting George Floyd’s killing last summer ran into a stranger’s home to escape the clouds of tear gas. “I was pepper sprayed for being Black and protesting,” the 34-year-old bartender and

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White House warned governors about ‘USA variant’ of Covid-19, but no such discovery has been made

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shot down reports from the White House coronavirus task force that warned states of a more transmissible, homegrown “US variant” of coronavirus — a misperception that began on a call with governors, an administration official told CNN. Officials on the governors’ call were discussing whether the steep

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