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Asia Today: Virus restrictions heightened in China province

BEIJING - Lockdown measures were being imposed in a northern Chinese province where coronavirus cases more than doubled in the region near Beijing that's due to host some events in next year's Winter ...

Jan 06, 2021

Dems' Georgia alliance is diverse and broad. Is it durable?

ATLANTA - President Donald Trump came to the north Georgia mountains Monday night to gin up turnout in conservative strongholds and stave off the Democratic challengers who threatened the GOP's Senate...

Jan 06, 2021

Media captures unprecedented storming of U.S. Capitol

NEW YORK - The storming of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump played out on television in searing fashion Wednesday, with stunning pictures of guns drawn in the House of Represen...

Jan 06, 2021

Experts: Capitol riot product of years of hateful rhetoric

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The storming of the U.S. Capitol is a jarring but natural product of years of violence and hateful rhetoric stoked by disinformation and conspiracy theories, experts on far-right e...

Jan 06, 2021

Amid Capitol violence, Facebook, Twitter remove Trump video

Facebook and Twitter removed a short video by President Donald Trump in which he urged supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol Wednesday to "go home" while also repeating false accusations about the i...

Jan 06, 2021

Chicago priest Pfleger `devastated' by sex-abuse allegations

CHICAGO - An activist Chicago Catholic priest who has garnered attention for taking on everyone from drug dealers to Jerry Springer said Wednesday that he is "devastated" by allegations that he sexual...

Jan 06, 2021

Trump tells backers to 'go home' after Capitol stormed

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump told his supporters on Wednesday to "go home" after they stormed the Capitol in protest of his reelection defeat and he urged them to stay peaceful, but he also pra...

Jan 06, 2021

Statehouses evacuate amid protests in support of Trump

Protesters who back President Donald Trump massed outside statehouses from Georgia to New Mexico on Wednesday, leading to some evacuations as cheers rang out in reaction to the news that pro-Trump dem...

Jan 06, 2021

Fed supported advance notice before changing bond purchases

WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve officials last month supported providing advance notice before the central bank makes changes to its $120 billion in monthly bond purchases. The minutes of those discussio...

Jan 06, 2021

Justice Department, federal court system hit by Russian hack

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department and the federal court system disclosed on Wednesday that they were among the dozens of U.S. government agencies and private businesses compromised by a massive cybe...

Jan 06, 2021