DOJ: Nearly 140 police officers injured in U.S. Capitol riot

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Nearly 140 police officers were injured when a violent pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol earlier this month to stop lawmakers from cementing President Biden’s election victory, the Justice Department said in a court filing Monday. The department said 81 officers from the U.S. Capitol Police and 58 Washington Metropolitan Police officers were assaulted during …

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Biden signs order reversing military transgender ban

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President Biden on Monday signed an executive order to remove restrictions on transgender Americans joining the military, reversing a controversial Trump-era Pentagon policy. Mr. Biden’s order comes just days after new Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who expressed support for reversing the transgender policy, assumed control at the Pentagon. The move was long expected to be …

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Afghanistan Veteran Named as Pentagon’s ‘COVID-19 Coordinator’

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Afghanistan veteran and former Rep. Max Rose, D-N.Y. — the Pentagon’s new “COVID-19 coordinator — joined Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin last Friday for their first meeting with the service chiefs and combatant commanders on efforts to control the pandemic. Rose’s appointment to the newly created post of “Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense — …

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