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Much remains unknown about what happened before and during the assault, and lawmakers are expected to aggressively question the former officials about what went wrong
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Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington on January 6, 2021.
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Much remains unknown about what happened before and during the assault, and lawmakers are expected to aggressively question the former officials about what went wrong Congress is set to hear from former U.S. Capitol security officials for the first time about the massive law enforcement failures on January 6, the day a violent mob laid siege to the building and interrupted the presidential electoral count.
Joe Biden’s national security Cabinet nominees face Senate tests
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The last time a new President did not have his Secretary of Defence confirmed by Inauguration Day was in 1989
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Flags are placed on the National Mall, with the U.S. Capitol behind, ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris, in Washington on January 18, 2021.
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The last time a new President did not have his Secretary of Defence confirmed by Inauguration Day was in 1989
President-elect Joe Biden’s national security Cabinet may be bare on Day One of his presidency, but an inauguration-eve spurt of Senate confirmation hearings suggests that won’t be the case for long.
Called the “American Rescue Plan,” the legislative proposal would meet Joe Biden’s goal of administering 100 million vaccines by the 100th day of his administration
The U.S. Department of Defence (DOD) is ensuring a smooth transition of power, a top Indian-American official at the Pentagon said, and asserted it is fully cooperating with the Biden administration i
The newly declassified 2018 Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific, made public by the Trump administration in its last week in office, underlines how prominently what it describes as “strategic competition between the U.S. and China” set Washington’s regional policy over the past four years, as well as President Donald Trump’s mixed record in effectively addressing that challenge.
At its meeting on textbook reforms on Wednesday, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education heard presentations from right-wing organisations and educationists, including the man at the centre of a debate on the “saffronisation” of textbooks under the Vajpayee government. They argued that Mughal history is being whitewashed in Indian textbooks, and crowding out space for history from the Vedic era.