Bomb ThreatCapitol Hill lawmakers experiencing surge of swatting calls, bomb threats In a Dec. 11 Senate hearing, U.S. Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger testified that there had been more than 50 so-called "swatting" attacks on members of Congress over the previous month. Dec 27, 2024 ...
Washington— Earlier this month, a womandied in a crashin Rome, Georgia, after her vehicle collided with that of an officer who was responding to a fake bomb threat at the home of Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. It was among the latest in a series of threats trigg...
said ballots stored at the location “were under constant supervision while the building was swept.” A polling place at a church in Philadelphia was also closed due to a bomb threat for about 20 minutes, and a judge ordered it to stay open late to make up for ...
relayed details about UT’s first Texas Independence Day celebration in 1897, when students borrowed a canon from the Capitol and fired it in front of the old Main Building. Another article in the second issue, “The Choosing of the Colors” by Venable Proctor, explained how orange and white...
2007: 'JUBILANT DEMOCRATS ASSUME CONTRO ON CAPITOL HILL' In 2006, Democrats walloped their Republican opponents and gained control of both the House and Senate in the critical midterm elections. George W. Bush now had to contend with a Congress controlled by the opposition party, but a far mo...
Like Mondale, Bush enjoys the privilege of an office in the West Wing of the White House—the true corridor of power-in addition to the traditional vice-presidential offices in the old Executive Office Building and on Capitol Hill. Besides attending all Cabinet meetings, Bush has a private ...
He was lying in state under the Capitol rotunda where Abraham Lincoln had lain nearly a century before. Americans have always had a secret love for pageantry, unfulfilled because of the absence of royalty, and it was this massive grandeur that made the experience strange and thrilling. I ...
Oversaw Clinton's Secret Service detail. In October 1994 Whicher was transferred to the Secret Service field office in the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City. Whatever warning was given to the BATF agents in that building did not reach Alan Whicher, whom died in the bomb blast of April 19th...
Capitol riot pipe bomb suspect still a mystery 3 years later The FBI is offering a $500,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest of the person responsible for planting two pipe bombs the night before the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Jan 6, 2024 Southwest Airlines executive apologizes...
But there’s something to Oermann’s reasoning. The Chicks were uppity, but the problem wasn’t that they didn’t behave like proper ladies. The problem was that they didn’t behave like proper country stars. When Garth Brooks got crosswise with Capitol Nashville, he didn’t sue anyone or...