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He said if not for the siege on the Capitol — in addition to fatigue with news related to the pandemic — the story of the day late Wednesday might have been the record death count.
U.S. RECORDS ITS DEADLIEST DAY OF THE PANDEMIC WHILE EYES ARE FIXED ON MOB STORMING CAPITOLPAULINA FIROZIJANUARY 7, 2021WASHINGTON POST
In the most dramatic moments of the siege, with armed officers in every corner of the Senate, police began barking out instructions.
INSIDE THE ASSAULT ON THE CAPITOL: EVACUATING THE SENATEPAUL KANEJANUARY 7, 2021WASHINGTON POST
As we sat in the still cold, the city was under silent siege.
“THOSE OF US WHO DON’T DIE ARE GOING TO QUIT”: A CRUSH OF PATIENTS, DWINDLING SUPPLIES AND THE NURSE WHO LOST HOPEBY J. DAVID MCSWANEDECEMBER 30, 2020PROPUBLICA
If confirmed, Becerra faces a federal department under siege at a critical moment during a pandemic that has reached 15,151,035 active cases in the United States and caused the deaths of over 288,880 Americans as of December 6.
CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY GENERAL XAVIER BECERRA PICKED AS HHS SECRETARYBRODY LEVESQUEDECEMBER 7, 2020WASHINGTON BLADE
It goes hand in hand with efforts to define who counts as a “real” American, painting the country as under siege from foreign influences — immigrants, socialists and secularists.
WHY REPUBLICANS ARE RESORTING TO ANTI-SOCIALISM HYSTERIAJENNIFER RUBINDECEMBER 3, 2020WASHINGTON POST
Indeed, it arrives in the midst of an election season when the journalistic craft that he represents has been under siege.
SOME FREE-SPEECH NORMS ARE IN DANGER. MAYBE THAT’S A GOOD THING.KENNETH MACKNOVEMBER 6, 2020WASHINGTON POST
Brandenburg saw its towns sieged and sacked, its country populations driven to despair, by the one party and the other.
HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH II. OF PRUSSIA, VOL. III. (OF XXI.)THOMAS CARLYLE
He knows every foot of the ground, having sieged here, in his boyhood, once before.
HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH II. OF PRUSSIA, VOL. XV. (OF XXI.)THOMAS CARLYLE
We're sieged in by planes and ground forces of Savannah Fortress.
THE NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIVESFRITZ REUTER LEIBER