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Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Shaken U.S. Capitol on high alert for Biden's first address to Congress

WASHINGTON, April 27 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's first address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday will take place in a U.S. Capitol on high alert, with memories fresh of the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the building by supporters of his predecessor, Donald Trump. 

The crowd inside the Capitol will be a fraction of the hundreds of members of Congress, Supreme Court justices, top government officials and guests who typically attend, to allow for more social distancing in a COVID-19 pandemic that has killed more than 572,000 Americans.

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 "the deadly Jan. 6 attack....."   At this rate they'll be describing it as a 'massacre' in about 6 months.