Jan. 6 riot caused $1.5 million in damage to Capitol — and U.S. prosecutors want defendants to pay wapo.st/3vV9zEo
The U.S. attorney’s office in Washington cited the damage estimate Wednesday in court and in plea papers filed in the case of Paul Hodgkins, who pleaded guilty to one felony count of obstructing an official proceeding of Congress. washingtonpost.com/local/legal-is…
The basis of the $1.5 million damage estimate is not clear. Prosecutors gave no details, but the estimate appears to reflect the immediate costs of replacing broken windows, doors and other property.
In 2020, for every 200,000 hours worked at an Amazon warehouse in the U.S. — the equivalent of 100 employees working full time for a year — there were 5.9 serious incidents, according to the OSHA data.
That’s nearly double the rate of non-Amazon warehouses.
Bobby Gosvener’s serious injury, a herniated disc, was among more than 24,400 reported cases at 638 Amazon warehouses in 2020.
More than 10,800 injuries resulted in employees missing work while they recovered, according to the OSHA data. wapo.st/3vJon8N
For the past month, Arizonans have been tallying ballots from the 2020 presidential election — even though the ballots have been counted, verified, checked repeatedly, adjudicated nationwide and certified over and over again, for nearly seven months now. wapo.st/3oSDA4S
Last month, the Republican-led Arizona Senate took custody of all the nearly 2.1 million ballots from Maricopa County and then gave those ballots to a private company called Cyber Ninjas, a Florida cybersecurity firm that has never conducted an election audit.
Multiple checks have confirmed that Joseph R. Biden beat Donald J. Trump for the presidency. Every time, Trump die-hards have doubted the outcome, @MrDanZak writes. wapo.st/3oSDA4S
The Atlanta-area spa shootings hit home for many Asian American women: “This could have been me.”
Ten Asian American women explain the connection they feel to the six slain women, and the resilience required to assimilate while facing ongoing harassment. washingtonpost.com/nation/interac…
When Karen Watkins heard about the shooting, she thought of her mother, who was often mocked for her race and accused of “stealing” jobs.
“I remember those people getting mad at her in the grocery store. If they had a gun and they got frustrated, they could just shoot at her.”
Mariah Hatta survived a fatal shooting at work in 2008. People often check in on her when a mass shooting occurs.
The Atlanta-area one felt different: “Workplace ones always kind of hit a little close to home.” The victims being mostly Asian women made it “just a little harder.”
Brood X contains billions — maybe trillions — of cicadas, and they are emerging after 17 years underground.
They will shake up parts of the eastern U.S. during a raucous few weeks as full-fledged adults. Then, just as suddenly, they will die. wapo.st/3bPqfVN
Since 2004, the Brood X cicadas have been growing and molting underground, drinking a fluid called xylem from plant and tree roots through a straw-like beak. Within a couple of weeks, half the brood will emerge.