The New York Times
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Eric Lipton
– Jan 21, 4:16 PM
MIAMI BEACH — It was New Year's Eve, and dance music was pulsating from the backyard of a multimillion-dollar home here co-owned by Philip Esformes, a former nursing home executive who orchestrated one of the biggest Medicare frauds in…
As a violent mob descended on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, lawmakers and aides hid wherever they could, waiting for military and police to arrive. But many of those who stormed the Capitol were military veterans themselves, who had once sworn to…
Guardsmen said they were not given a clear reason why they were asked to vacate the buildings. National Guard soldier head to the east front of the U.S. Capitol. | Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images Thousands of National Guardsmen were forced to…
(CNN) US Capitol Police are investigating an incident in which a Republican lawmaker was stopped from bringing a concealed gun onto the House floor on Thursday, sources told CNN, the first time a member of Congress has been discovered with a…
The New York Times
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David Brooks
– Jan 21, 4:00 PM
Most calls to “national unity” are vacuous pap. They are unrealistic, kumbaya pleas to “come together” around nothing. But, as Richard Hughes Gibson wrote this week in The Hedgehog Review, the best calls to national…
