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Conservative media decry Capitol riot, but grievances remain
NEW YORK - Media outlets that appeal to conservatives offered condemnations, explanations and deflections following the U.S. Capitol riot by President Donald Trump's supporters, but little introspecti...
Jan 07, 2021
Neil Sheehan, Pentagon Papers reporter, Vietnam author, dies
WASHINGTON - Neil Sheehan, a reporter and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who broke the story of the Pentagon Papers for The New York Times and who chronicled the deception at the heart of the Vietnam W...
Jan 07, 2021
Cowichan First Nation issues stay-at-home order as COVID-19 spreads on its reserve
DUNCAN, B.C. - The Cowichan First Nation on Vancouver Island has issued a shelter-in-place order as COVID-19 spreads through its territory. The First Nation says in a statement that there have been 23...
Jan 07, 2021
Nanaimo RCMP Victim Services gets financial jolt
NANAIMO - People supporting victims of crime in Nanaimo are in a more favourable financial position.Nanaimo RCMP Victim Services program manager Cheryl Zapotichny said an extra $50,000 committed by ci...
Jan 07, 2021
Hurt feelings, anger linger after Pence, Trump clash
WASHINGTON - They were never a natural fit, the straight-laced evangelical and the brash reality TV star. But for more than four years, President Donald Trump and Vice-President Mike Pence made their ...
Jan 07, 2021
Indonesian cleric who inspired extremists freed from prison
JAKARTA, Indonesia - A convicted firebrand cleric who inspired the Bali bombers and other violent extremists walked free from an Indonesian prison Friday after completing his sentence for funding the ...
Jan 07, 2021
Capitol Police rejected offers of federal help to quell mob
WASHINGTON - Three days before supporters of President Donald Trump rioted at the Capitol, the Pentagon asked the U.S Capitol Police if it needed National Guard manpower. And as the mob descended on t...
Jan 07, 2021
'What else could I do?' NJ Rep. Kim helps clean up Capitol
Water bottles, clothing, Trump flags, even a U.S. flag littered the ground inside the U.S. Capitol after a mob backing President Donald Trump ransacked the building. New Jersey Rep. Andy Kim walked am...
Jan 07, 2021
Mob at U.S. Capitol encouraged by online conspiracy theories
CHICAGO - Every video the Louisiana man posts on Twitter and Facebook starts with a big smile and a wish for his thousands of followers to have a blessed day. But as he drove to the nation's capital T...
Jan 07, 2021
Woman fatally shot at Capitol echoed Trump on social media
SAN DIEGO - Like President Donald Trump, the San Diego woman fatally shot by police as a mob of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol had used Twitter to amplify her views, including false allegatio...
Jan 07, 2021