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Closing summary
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20:06
Biden announces ghost gun restrictions, seeks to end ‘terrible fellowship of loss’
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19:41
Biden: Ghost guns pose ‘especially grave threat’
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18:45
Modi call ‘constructive’, White House says, but no agreement over Russian oil
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Biden and Modi pledge collaboration over Ukraine
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Biden to announce restrictions on ‘ghost guns’
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House speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced she has now tested negative for coronavirus, days after she became one of the leading names in a flurry of Covid news last week involving Capitol Hill and White House figures.
So, look out, congressmen and women, Pelosi will be unleashed once again on Tuesday to bring her inimitable style to the Capitol.
The picture at the top is one that got folks rattled, as those testing positive among Washington leaders got closer and closer to Biden himself. But the Speaker is back!
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21:48
The US president has taken to Twitter to vent his frustration further at the proliferation of untraceable ‘ghost’ guns, calling them the “weapon of choice for many criminals”.
Joe Biden taking to Twitter is not a sentence often written, especially in comparison with his predecessor Donald Trump who would announce entire policy decisions, fire members of his cabinet and launch personal attacks all via the social media platform (from which he is banned).
Biden tweets seldom and mostly tamely. But he has posted a series of extra statements following his remarks earlier about new restrictions on ghost guns.
Having called ghost guns a weapon of choice for criminals he said his administration will do “everything we can to deprive them of that choice”.
He lamented ghost guns being easy to assemble and use.
It’s a drop in the ocean when it comes to new gun safety laws in the US.
One more:
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21:25
A federal judge in Washington, DC has sentenced two men and a woman from Missouri to several weeks in jail for their roles in the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol, Reuters reports.
Judge James Boasberg sentenced Emily Hernandez, of Sullivan, to 30 days in jail.
He also sentenced her uncle, William Merry, and another suburban St Louis man, Paul Scott Westover, to 45 days in jail each, the St Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
All three also were ordered to pay $500 for damaging the Capitol.
The trio entered the Capitol through a smashed door. A government sentencing memo says Merry goaded Hernandez into picking up a broken piece of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s sign. It also says Hernandez shot a video of herself stealing two other signs.
Westover pleaded guilty on December 6 to one count of parading, demonstrating or picketing in the Capitol.
Merry pleaded guilty on January 5 to one count of theft of government property.
Hernandez pleaded guilty on January 10 to one count of entering and remaining in a restricted building.