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The US is likely to reach 400,000 deaths tomorrow.
Biden will speak at the Reflecting Pool tomorrow to mark the toll of the pandemic.
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Incoming WH Press Sec says Biden will not follow through with Trump’s plans to lift Covid travel restrictions on 1/26
With the pandemic worsening, and more contagious variants emerging around the world, this is not the time to be lifting restrictions on international travel.
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Some Trump supporters now claim the intense security around the capitol is only needed because Biden is an illegitimate president, less than two weeks after the building was violently occupied by people who sought to prevent Biden from becoming president.
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DC Traffic update:
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Alex Trebek is Canadian (he became a naturalized US citizen in 1998)
Trump just signed an executive order building on one from last summer to create a National Garden of American Heroes. It calls for status of a long and varied list of people, including Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Alex Trebek, Kobe Bryant, Milton Friedman, Soujourner Truth.
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Two stories told by the earlier security scare at the capitol: the incredibly tense security situation, and the crisis of homelessness in the U.S. capital.
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Secret Service update: No threat to the public:
BREAKING: Smoke rising behind Capitol building. Inauguration rehearsal appears to be evacuating. Emergency announcement playing at Capitol grounds.
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UPDATE: Confirmed, no fire in capitol or on the campus:
Replying to @frankthorp
CAPITOL POLICE: “There are currently no fires on or within the Capitol campus.”
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Further update from the Secret Service
Public safety and law enforcement responded to a small fire in the area of 1st and F streets SE, Washington, D.C. that has been extinguished. Out of an abundance of caution the U.S. Capitol complex was temporarily shutdown. There is no threat to the public.
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