The FBI is investigating whether members of the New York City Fire Department were among the mob of President Donald Trump's supporters that stormed the nation's Capitol Wednesday.
CHICAGO (WLS) Tank Noodle in Uptown, a well-known and well-loved Vietnamese restaurant, is under fire online after its owners posted pictures of them headed to Washington D.C. for Wednesday s Save America Rally.
So many customers have posted scathing reviews on Yelp that the restaurant review site shut down their page. We re getting calls from people threatening to burn down our establishment, said Thien Ly, owner. I found a shotgun shell was placed in front of our business this morning.
Thien Ly said he took his parents, who are Vietnamese immigrants, to the nation s capital with innocent intentions. We came there to stand up for what we believe in, he said. We came to the Save America rally at the eclipse [
"It is my fervent hope that the rioters whose actions directly contributed to his death are quickly identified and brought to justice," Murphy said in a statement Friday.
The Globe and Mail Published January 7, 2021
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. He lives in Portland, Ore.
It is difficult to watch a day such as Jan. 6, 2021, unfold – the pathetic spectacle and madness of it – and not retreat to the comforting perch of objective truth. An empire brought low not by a rival empire, not by some unpreventable natural calamity, but by a gaggle of proudly uninformed, bilious racists role-playing as freedom fighters. Surely, one day we will make sense of all this, assign to it the authoritative, damning narrative it deserves.
But what was irreparably fractured this week was the American narrative itself. Beyond the fault lines that have always run beneath the social ground of this country, there is a sense that the United States as a civic entity has no more interest in anything resembling a shared reality – if it ever did. The men and women who stormed the Capitol on Wednesday – who climbed smirking through the shattered windows and turned the Hous