Twitter/Ashli BabbittMs Babbitt was a vocal supporter of President TrumpThe day before she died, Ashli Babbitt wrote on social media about the upcoming gathering of Trump supporters in the US capital.
"Nothing will stop us," she wrote. "They can try and try and try but the storm is here and it is descending upon DC in less than 24 hours." Ms Babbitt, 35, was among the mob which breached the US Capitol on Wednesday. Read More...
Jeffrey Goldberg: U.S. forces are in the midst of a multi-pronged attack against Iranian targets in Syria and Iraq. This attack, among the most telegraphed in recent memory, comes days after three soldiers, Sergeant Kennedy Sanders, William Rivers, and Breonna Moffett, were killed in a drone attack at a border post in Jordan.
The Middle East was already boiling and President Biden seems loath to escalate, but he also felt that he had no choice. Read More...
EPASão Paulo is the worst-hit city in BrazilThe number of people to have died from Covid-19 in Brazil has passed 150,000, the country's health ministry says.
Brazil has the second-highest coronavirus death toll in the world, after the US, and the third-highest number of cases after the US and India.
The country also passed five million total infections earlier this week.
President Jair Bolsonaro has been accused of downplaying the risks of the virus throughout the pandemic, ignoring expert advice on restrictive measures. Read More...