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The vice president was presiding as the Electoral College vote count is tallied. As violence broke out at the Capitol, President Trump rebuked Pence for following the law.

He becomes the first Black person to be elected to the Senate from the state and the first Black Democratic senator from the South.

As Wednesday's tally of the Electoral College vote highlighted a bitter divide between the parties, the Capitol went into a lockdown because of protests.

Critic Maureen Corrigan has been describing Anna North's new novel to friends as "The Handmaid's Tale meets Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." It's a glib tagline, but not without justification.

Republicans will see more than 100 of their House members and over a dozen GOP senators object to the election results. Those objections are highly unlikely to prevail.

After the president addressed the crowd gathered to protest President-elect Joe Biden's win, Trump supporters pushed past barriers onto the Capitol grounds.

Detective Joshua Jaynes, who secured the search warrant for Taylor's apartment, and Detective Myles Cosgrove, who federal investigators said fired the shot that killed her, have been terminated.

Supporters of President Trump, echoing his false claims that the election was stolen, breached the U.S. Capitol in an unprecedented attack. Amid the assault, a woman was killed.

"Our democracy would enter a death spiral," Mitch McConnell said of a scenario in which Congress might overturn election results.

Historians in Italy compare Wednesday's events to the rise of fascism. "Violence is incompatible with the exercise of democratic rights and freedoms," Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said.