Victoria St. Martin

Civil rights activist Julian Bond dies; Obama calls him a ‘hero’

June 24, 2019 at 11:16 p.m.

While still in his 20s, Julian Bond was already one of the most charismatic and best-known figures of the civil rights movement. Tall, strikingly handsome and a gifted orator, he...

The U.S. Capitol is on lockdown April 11, 2015 as a precaution after shots were fired in what police say appears to be an attempted suicide.

Lockdown lifted after suicide, bomb scare at U.S. Capitol building

June 23, 2019 at 8:11 p.m.

Robert Bishop, a 47-year-old real estate developer from Annapolis, Maryland, had just snapped a selfie early Saturday afternoon at the West Front of the U.S. Capitol when he heard the...

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