Police use tear gas and percussion grenades to begin clearing protesters from U.S. Capitol grounds. Dozens of supporters of President Donald Trump breached security perimeter and entered the Capitol as Congress was meeting to affirm Joe Biden’s win. apne.ws/Izca0MB
Officials declare U.S. Capitol secure nearly four hours after violent pro-Trump occupiers disrupted electoral count. apne.ws/FGsvYkT
AP source: Woman who was shot inside U.S. Capitol during violent pro-Trump protest has died. Police are clearing protesters outside Capitol as curfew takes effect. apne.ws/fNy1bOE
Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen says the violent pro-Trump protest at the U.S. Capitol was an “intolerable attack on a fundamental institution" of democracy.
Former President George W. Bush says he watched the events in "disbelief and dismay." apne.ws/IeqYCiA
Twitter for the first time has locked President Trump's account, demanding he remove tweets excusing violence and threatening "permanent suspension." apne.ws/fptlr2z
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Latest from the Capitol:
• Trump supporters breach U.S. Capitol, building on lockdown.
• Congress forced to halt proceedings.
• D.C. mayor orders 6 p.m. curfew. apne.ws/2rMtTH9
After encouraging protests, President Trump tweets to supporters to "stay peaceful" amid violent clashes and breach of Capitol building that has forced halt to Electoral College proceedings.
BREAKING: Raphael Warnock wins Georgia Senate runoff election, bringing Democrats to within one seat of wresting control of the chamber from the Republicans. apne.ws/jP8rVfJ
The race between Republican Sen. David Perdue and Democrat Jon Ossoff hasn’t been called. Democrats need to win both contests to take the Senate. apne.ws/hC39YVF
Warnock is a pastor at the Atlanta church were slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. preached. Warnock becomes only the second African American since reconstruction to represent a Southern state in the Senate. apne.ws/f13wiKG
THREAD: The nations of the world ran the gamut in their responses to the COVID-19 pandemic -- sometimes veering from strict to lax measures over just a few months, or vice versa. #PandemicAtlasapne.ws/c7YuQBS
In Mexico, the government did little, aside from asking its people to act responsibly. The result: more than 100,000 deaths, a number that is presumed to be an understatement. #PandemicAtlasapne.ws/WquY7Au
New Zealand’s government closed its borders and shut down nearly everything, preventing all but a couple dozen deaths. #PandemicAtlasapne.ws/AY80uU3
THREAD: They say youth is a protective factor against COVID-19. In Kenya, youths have suffered anyway. #PandemicAtlasapne.ws/lWKj4uT
From children forced into hard labor and prostitution to a child shot dead by police enforcing a curfew, the effects of COVID-19 in Kenya have fallen hard on the young. #PandemicAtlasapne.ws/FV3TyX3
With schools largely closed in Kenya, many children have turned up on the streets, in quarries wielding hammers and in vast dumps picking through garbage. #PandemicAtlasapne.ws/4wcaj7i
THREAD: Japan was accused of botching the handling of the outbreak on a luxury cruise ship near Tokyo, but it has been spared explosive surges without a hard lockdown and is praised for widespread mask-wearing. #PandemicAtlasapne.ws/zbLnP8w
Daily cases have spiked recently, triggering fears of a further upsurge. Japan’s government, afraid of hurting the economy, has delayed tougher actions than seeking individual effort such as mask-wearing. #PandemicAtlasapne.ws/TfK7tSC
Tokyo and a few other cities requested drinking places to close early until mid-December in their own initiative to slow the infections before the holiday season of parties and traveling. #PandemicAtlasapne.ws/TvX5UNp
THREAD: Germans enjoyed a largely relaxed summer with many coronavirus restrictions lifted — the result of a rapid response to the initial outbreak and a reliance on early and aggressive testing that won wide praise. #PandemicAtlasapne.ws/udNG5je
Though government rules on social distancing, hygiene measures and mask wearing remained in place, Germany’s early vigilance slid into complacency, adherence began to slip and the numbers of COVID-19 infections started to rise exponentially. #PandemicAtlasapne.ws/21wSheH
German officials instituted a so-called wave-breaker partial shutdown on Nov. 2, which succeeded in leveling off the rise of new COVID-19 cases by the end of the month, but at numbers nearly four times the March peak. #PandemicAtlasapne.ws/HCSlebG