Biden urged to push back against Republicans' scaled-down Covid relief proposal – as it happened
by Vivian Ho, Joan E Greve and Martin Belam (earlier) from US news | The Guardian on (#5DJYR)
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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that investigators have made a preliminary determination that the Capitol police officer who fatally shot Ashli Babbitt during the 6 January Capitol riot shouldn't be charged.
Babbitt, whose Twitter feed showed her deeply entrenched in the racist pro-Trump QAnon movement, had traveled to Washington from her home in San Diego to demand that Donald Trump, not Joe Biden, be sworn in as president.
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