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As the sun sets on Donald Trump’s presidency, the US capital has become a fortified “ghost town”.
On Tuesday, tens of thousands of National Guard troops patrolled the streets around the US Capitol building, the National Mall and the White House.
The day before the inauguration of the new president, there were dozens of police checkpoints and heavily armed men and women at nearly every corner of the city centre.
Covid-19 and the high security surrounding president-elect Joe Biden and vice president-elect Kamala Harris’s inauguration has made the city look more like a closed-down movie set than the bustling capital of the world’s oldest democracy.
Out with the old, in with the few: The pandemic has changed New Year’s Eve Ben Guarino, Marisa Iati, Samantha Schmidt, Kim Bellware Pedestrians walk in a nearly empty Times Square ahead of the New Year s Eve celebration on Thursday. (Frank Franklin II/AP) NEW YORK When the iconic Times Square Ball drops in Manhattan come midnight, it will descend before an unusually small live audience. Most of the confetti will fall to the ground, landing on the shoulders of just a few hundred partygoers rather than the 1 million who typically pack the streets for the new year. When the clock strikes 12, no one is likely to kiss a stranger.
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Can t keep living in fear | Neighbors of child shot in the face demand resources to fight crime
Police are still looking for the people who chased the boy as he walked home from the store. Author: Delia Goncalves Updated: 7:00 PM EST December 11, 2020
WASHINGTON While a 12-year-old boy from Northwest, D.C. is recovering from being shot in the face, nearly 100 of his neighbors gathered across the street from the crime scene demanding more resources to fight crime.
“Am I supposed to sit in my living room and live daily hoping that a stray bullet doesn’t come through my house!” shouted one woman.