RI DAILY

Manhattan's little, quieter island and beyond

Reporting Roosevelt Island since sunrise.

RI DAILY

Manhattan's little, quieter island and beyond

Reporting Roosevelt Island since sunrise.

Electoral College

The women who saved the boxes of electoral votes during a riot in the Capitol

A Senate aide directed staff to protect the three mahogany boxes containing the certified electoral college votes while rioters stormed the Capitol Wednesday afternoon.  Chabeli Carrazana Originally published by The 19th With insurrection at the door, one woman’s thoughts turned…

Objection to Arizona’s Electoral College result fails in U.S. Senate, House

By Ted O’Neil | The Center Square/Jan 6, 2021 (The Center Square) – The U.S. Senate voted 93-6 on Wednesday night against an objection to Arizona’s Electoral College vote. After a delay of several hours because protesters from a pro-Trump rally stormed…

Capitol Rioters Planned for Weeks in Plain Sight. The Police Weren’t Ready.

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. This story was originally published in ProPublica by Logan Jaffe, Lydia DePillis, Isaac Arnsdorf and J. David McSwane/ProPublica The invasion of the…

New York’s Screwed in DC, But Where’s the Outrage?

New York’s screwed in DC, the nation’s capital, and so is California. But where is the outrage? A populist movement stalled President Obama’s direction and led Donald Trump into the presidency, or so the story goes. But is that true?…