The newly released security footage and audio communications tracked Vice President Mike Pence, Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah) and staffers of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as rioters swarmed the building. The first video showed the inside view as rioters breached the building for the first time, breaking windows to climb inside. The first wave of trespassers included some armed people, including one person in tactical gear carrying a baseball bat....

But while the vote is expected to pass later this week, it will force the handful of moderate freshmen Democrats—most of whom represent swing states and who’ve yet to endorse the impeachment inquiry—to make a difficult choice. Most of the eight Democrats yet to back the inquiry hail from Trump districts that they flipped from red to blue last year, making them vulnerable members. And a vote for the resolution could falsely lead constituents to believe their congressional lawmaker backs the impeachment investigations....

Damascus may have strained ties with Washington, but it has no qualms with the Washington consensus—the formerly fashionable free-market formula for developing-country growth celebrated during the Clinton era. The consensus, which basically touts free trade, low taxes and privatization as the way to economic success, has fallen on hard times recently—not only have Russia, Latin America and Southeast Asia turned away from it, but even the United States is upping public spending and eschewing free trade as a protectionist mentality takes hold globally....

The drivers were upset because after the third stoppage for rain, and the subsequent restart, a light rain once again began falling in Turn 4. This time, the precipitation took a toll, as Kyle Busch’s Toyota slipped and hit the wall on Lap 53 causing extensive damage to the right front fender. MORE: Must-see photos from Michigan | Full results | Chase standings “It was raining when we came to the green,” Kevin Harvick said over the radio (via NASCAR....

Early on, I was worried that I’d become one of them. I was worried that I’d lost my sense of wonder. Thankfully, that was wrong. Late in the second half — this is pre-UNC comeback — the ship righted itself. MORE: Crying Jordan — the greatest hits If the meme itself is unavoidable as death, second-wave content related to it runs a close second place. There are roundups and thinkpieces; it’s all part of the cycle....

Democrats accused the president of putting “personal political benefit over the national interest.” Republicans, however, stood steadfast in their claim that there was no evidence Trump did anything wrong—while they continued to push a debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine, not Russia, interfered in the 2016 election. The diverging conclusions were compiled by Democratic and Republican staffers of the three House committee involved in the inquiry—Intelligence, Oversight and Foreign Affairs—ahead of the first public impeachment hearing before the Judiciary Committee Wednesday....

That was between 2002 and 2007, when former President Hosni Mubarak faced growing opposition to his long autocratic rule that marked the beginning of his fall. When the January 2011 uprising rocked the country, we were new doctors. Abdellatif’s passion revolved around his career as well as the wider policies around his profession, including the abysmal conditions in which doctors work in Egypt, and that lead thousands of them to leave the country....

Players and coaches from Louisville and Georgia were given a taste of NASCAR on Saturday with the Richard Petty Driving Experience. Their game will be played Dec. 30 in Charlotte. Louisville Cardinals players and coaches George Bulldogs players and coaches While larger players, like 6-7, 320-pound Georgia guard Watts Dantzler; 6-6, 237 Georgia linebacker Lorenzo Carter or 6-6, 287 Louisville lineman Lukayas McNeil struggled to climb in and out of the stockcars, there was not a single participant who did not enjoy the experience....

That would have been the perfect occasion for Bayern to claim the title but they were nonetheless made wait because of Schalke’s 2-0 win against Freiburg. Instead of wrapping up a 28th national title at home in front of their own fans, they did doing so with a thumping 4-1 win at Augsburg in the Bavarian derby. The celebrations might be lower key, but the message no less profound....

Jozef, or Joe, didn’t discuss his past, and neither his daughter nor his wife ever asked. It was only as a grown woman that Kobak learned that her father was born in a Slovak village of Polish parents, who moved across the border to Poland when Joe was 13. She got her father to break his silence by traveling to Australia, where her parents had moved after she started her own family....

But then, suddenly and to the surprise of many, a softer, more appealing Marilyn Quayle emerged. After friends teased her about her 1950s hairdo, she switched to a gentler perm. Disaster relief continued to dominate her public calendar, but Mrs. Quayle found her voice in a more poignant cause: early detection and treatment of breast cancer. At a Dallas luncheon to raise money to fight the disease, she let down her guard in public, shocking even her closest friends....

Set 32 years before Episode III: A New Hope, the first episode established the origin story of Anakin Skywalker (Jake Lloyd) who grew up to become the most feared ruler in the galaxy, Darth Vader. Released in 1999, the first prequel has a 55 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes from critics who trashed the film. At 58 percent, audiences didn’t turn out in droves either to defend the movie either....

President Emmanuel Macron and his government responded to the killing by proclaiming their support for freedom of expression. But they have also doubled down on their perpetual smear campaign against French Muslims, and launched their own attack on freedom of expression. Last week, for example, French police interviewed four 10-year-old children for hours on suspicion of “apology of terrorism,” after they apparently questioned Paty’s choice to show the cartoons....

More than 6.3 million visitors flocked to the 70-mile-long, 95-mile-wide Indonesian island in 2019, drawn to its Hindu temples and rich culture, volcanoes and rice terraces, cliffs and sandy beaches on the Indian Ocean. Many come from China, Australia and other countries to the island’s more than 1,000 hotels, which, like others in Indonesia, have been temporarily closed by the coronavirus. But after the pandemic hit, popular tourism spots like the beaches of Kuta, Seminyak and Nusa Dua and the temples and shrines near Ubud stand nearly empty....

But pennies get a bad rap. New York panhandlers don’t want them. Schoolkids gladly give them away. Cash-register signs read: TAKE A PENNY. LEAVE A PENNY. Which makes me wonder, is the penny dying? My obsession goes way back, and I feel sad that the penny could become obsolete. In high school, I wore penny loafers with pennies in the slits. I won many a penny-pitching championship. My favorite Cary Grant movie was the black-and-white tearjerker “Penny Serenade....

To be a footnote is to know that at least one reader out there takes you seriously. Once a footnote, a writer is no longer just an author, but an authority. Television, in contrast, confers mere celebrity. To be a footnote is to achieve a kind of immortality, a posthumous existence in the pages of someone else’s book. But now a growing number of publishers – at Harvard and other university presses, yet – are abolishing footnotes because their marketing mavens say they scare the general reader off....

To match the best regular season in franchise history, though, they’ll have to pick up the pace — the 1977 Royals finished with 102 wins and a .630 winning percentage, and that club was the only team in franchise history to lead the AL in wins. SPECTOR: Would Why a Royals-Pirates World Series would be great for baseball That 1977 team featured 10 players who wound up in the Royals Hall of Fame — George Brett, Frank White, Hal McRae, Dennis Leonard, John Mayberry, Amos Otis, Paul Splittorff, Freddie Patek, Larry Gura and Cookie Rojas (it’s 11 if you count future star Willie Wilson, who played just 13 games that year, his Age 21 season)....

Still, there is hope for consumers: Claritin’s patent will expire on Dec. 19, meaning that cheaper generic versions are on their way. Then perhaps allergy sufferers will truly breathe more easily.