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“If it can happen in the U.S., it can happen anywhere,” said Gunjan Chhibber, a 39-year-old who works for an American tech company in India, the world’s largest democracy. Read more
It took more than two hours, and reinforcements from other law enforcement agencies, before order was restored. Read more
The agency also asked Oregonians in a brief statement released late Wednesday to report anyone who may be planning an armed takeover to ities. Read more
A West Virginia lawmaker recorded video of himself and fellow supporters of President Donald Trump storming the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, triggering calls for his resignation. Read more
Teargas and bullets in the U.S. Capitol building. Outrage and condemnation from leaders across the world. Read more
Members of armed right-wing groups that stormed the Capitol on Wednesday in blind support of President Donald Trump’s futile attempt to stay in office said they supported the mob attack, calling it the beginning of another American revolution. Read more
President Donald Trump and his allies have fanned the flames of anti-media sentiment, regularly labeling news outlets as “the enemy of the people.” Read more
The mob of Trump supporters pressed through police barricades, broke windows and battered their way with metal poles through entrances to the Capitol. Then, stunningly, they breached the “People’s House” itself, forcing masked police officers to draw their guns to keep the insurgents off the chamber floor. Read more
The U.S. Capitol Police force was caught unprepared by a mob of pro-Trump extremists today, in a failure to protect the seat of American democracy unparalleled in modern times. Read more
The convulsion in Washington capped 1,448 days of Twitter storms, provocations, race-baiting, busted norms, shock-jock governance and truth-bending from the Oval Office. Read more
Trump did not in fact travel with the supporters he urged to go fight for him; he returned to the White House, and berated aides about how the scene had appeared. Read more
Obama said today’s events “should not have come as a surprise.” Read more
It was not known if the Heat and Celtics would face penalties for kneeling from the NBA, which has had a rule for decades that players and coaches must stand for the national anthem. Read more
Twitter for 1st time locks Trump’s account, demands he remove tweets excusing violence, threatens ‘permanent suspension.’ Read more
“This is sedition and should be treated as such,” said Jay Timmons, head of a lobbying group that backed many of Trump’s initiatives. Read more
In an address that took only about 10 minutes and was televised against a split screen of the still-occupied Capitol building, Biden attempted to project calm. Read more
This was far from the first time the Capitol has been scarred by violence. Read more
Rep. Ed Case said in a tweet, “My staff and I are ok, but democracy is not. Read more
Trump had encouraged his supporters to march on the Capitol to protest lawmakers’ actions. Read more
