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In July 1917, the all-Black 3rd Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, traveled by train from Columbus, New Mexico — near the Mexican border — to Houston. They were tasked with guarding the construction of an auxiliary National Guard training facility. The soldiers could not have fully imagined what awaited them. Their assignment to guard Camp Logan […]
A mob of supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump fight with members of law enforcement at a door they broke open as they storm the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, U.S., January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Leah Millis Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register WASHINGTON, June 9 (Reuters) – The congressional hearings on the […]
May 27 (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department on Friday extended its streak of victories in jury trials against rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, securing a guilty verdict in its prosecution of a New Jersey man facing a felony charge. After less than a day of deliberation, a federal jury in […]
Prosecutors allege that Timothy Hale-Cusanelli is a white supremacist who breached the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 intent on causing a second “civil war.” His defense attorney contends that Hale-Cusanelli frequently makes “bombastic” statements and uses “offensive” language, but that he entered the Capitol as a result of “groupthink.” Jose Luis Magana/AP hide caption […]
Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up here.)Millions of people around the world will die” if Ukraine’s Black Sea ports aren’t reopened, says the head of the UN World […]
An explosion caused by a police munition is seen while supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump riot in front of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, U.S., January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register WASHINGTON, May 12 (Reuters) – Congressman Kevin McCarthy, the top Republican in the […]
One week before an angry mob stormed the Capitol, a communications expert named Jason Sullivan, a onetime aide to Roger J. Stone Jr., joined a conference call with a group of President Donald J. Trump’s supporters and made an urgent plea. After assuring his listeners that the 2020 election had been stolen, Mr. Sullivan told […]
WASHINGTON, April 1 (Reuters) – An Alabama man found with a “small armory” of guns, ammunition and Molotov cocktails in his pickup truck ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot was sentenced to almost four years in prison, one of the stiffest sentences so far handed down. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said […]
But the glory days of the former USS Kitty Hawk are over, and the retired supercarrier is on its final, 16,000-mile journey from Washington state to Texas, where it will be cut up and sold for scrap. International Shipbreaking Limited of Brownsville, Texas, bought the ship last year for less than a dollar from US […]
Reffitt, a Texas Three Percenter and supporter of then-President Donald Trump when he went to the Capitol on January 6, was charged with five counts — wanting to obstruct the congressional certification of the 2020 presidential election, transporting guns into DC, carrying a Smith & Wesson handgun onto the restricted grounds of the Capitol, interfering […]