Tag: Capitol Building (Washington, DC)

Speaker Mike Johnson’s Favorite Way to Dodge Questions: Answering the Phone

It was his first day back in Washington after a long winter break, and Speaker Mike Johnson was under pressure to pass a short-term funding bill to avoid a government shutdown within days. With hard-right Republicans in full revolt over the plan, everyone in the Capitol was eager to know what the inexperienced leader would […]

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Proud Boys Member Who Threatened Police With Ax Handle on Jan. 6 Is Sentenced

A member of the Proud Boys extremist group who threatened police officers with an ax handle and breached the U.S. Capitol during the attack on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced on Friday to nearly five years in prison, federal prosecutors said. Judge Timothy J. Kelly of U.S. District Court in Washington sentenced the man, William […]

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Former State Department Official Sentenced to Nearly Six Years in Jan. 6 Attack

A former U.S. Marine who served in the Trump administration as a low-level State Department aide was sentenced on Friday to nearly six years in prison for his role in the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The former aide, Federico G. Klein, of Falls Church, Va., was a State Department employee when […]

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Woman Who Used Bullhorn to Rally Rioters on Jan. 6 Gets Nearly 5 Years

A Pennsylvania woman who smashed a window at the Capitol with an ice ax and a cardboard tube and used a bullhorn to urge rioters to “take” the building on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced on Tuesday to nearly five years in prison, court documents show. Federal prosecutors said the woman, Rachel Powell, 43, of […]

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Nancy Pelosi Is Kicked Out of Bonus Office in the Capitol

“With all of the important decisions that the new Republican leadership must address, which we are all eagerly awaiting, one of the first actions taken by the new speaker pro tempore was to order me to immediately vacate my office in the Capitol,” Ms. Pelosi said in a statement on Tuesday night. “Sadly, because I […]

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Dianne Feinstein, Breaking Into the Boys’ Club

WASHINGTON — I’ve always said that the Washington Monument is an apt symbol, a Freudian obelisk redolent of all the male egos that have shaped our capital. To appreciate what Dianne Feinstein accomplished, you need to know how male this city was in 1992, when she was swept into Congress in the “Year of the […]

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Zelensky to Meet With Biden in Washington Next Week

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, will visit Washington next week following his appearance at the United Nations General Assembly, according to three U.S. officials. Mr. Zelensky’s plan to appear in person before the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, as part of the U.N.’s annual gathering in New York City, was previously known. But his follow-on […]

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‘Zip Tie Guy’ and His Mother Get Prison Terms in Jan. 6 Riot

A Tennessee man and his mother were sentenced to prison on Friday for seeking to intimidate lawmakers by marching with matching tactical vests and carrying zip tie-style handcuffs during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, federal prosecutors said. The man, Eric Munchel, 32, of Nashville, who became known on social media as “Zip […]

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