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Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died after the attack, will receive a posthumous award.

The Mexican military has captured a son of the imprisoned drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.

The Biden administration will immediately begin turning away Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans who cross the border illegally in a major expansion of an existing effort to stop Venezuelans.

The Russian Orthodox Church celebrates Christmas on Jan. 7.

The House stalemate over choosing a new speaker is continuing. Kevin McCarthy is determined to win over enough fellow Republicans, but he failed again on Thursday.

Twitter banned all political advertising in 2019, reacting to growing concern about misinformation spreading on social media.

The Brent Spence Bridge, which connects Cincinnati and northern Kentucky, was declared functionally obsolete by the Federal Highway Administration in the 1990s.

Elon Musk previously held the title of the world's richest person.

Trump had refused to release his returns when he ran for president and had waged a legal battle to keep them secret while he was in the White House. But the Supreme Court ruled last month that he had to turn them over.

"Christmas is a particularly poignant time for all of us who have lost loved ones," Charles said. "We feel their absence ... and remember them in each cherished tradition."

Some were wearing T-shirts despite temperatures hovering around 15 degrees Fahrenheit. It was the coldest Christmas Eve on record in DC.

Twitter view counts are now shown alongside other analytics like the number of retweets, quote tweets, and likes a post gets.

The planning was extensive, the transcripts show, and began as early as four days before the election, when state party officials began discussing whether Nevada’s Republican secretary of state would sign off on the alternate slate of electors.

The Jan. 6 committee’s report asserts that Trump criminally engaged in a “multi-part conspiracy” to overturn the lawful results of the 2020 election and failed to act to stop his supporters from attacking the Capitol.

"I sincerely hope this holiday season will drain the poison that has infected our politics and set us against one another," President Biden said in his Christmas address.

A new report says the Trump administration may have disregarded an IRS requirement dating back to 1977 that mandates audits of a president's tax filings.

A report issued by the Democratic-controlled House Ways and Means Committee finds that required IRS audits of Donald Trump were delayed.