Curfew Being Lifted in Washington amid Tight Security Measures

Security reinforcements have arrived at the US Congress building after the curfew ended in Washington, DC.

Muriel Bawazir, Mayor of Washington, DC, had announced the imposition of a curfew in the capital, starting 6 pm yesterday.

"I asked for a citywide curfew to be imposed in the District of Columbia (DC) from 6:00 pm on Wednesday, January 6, until 6 am on Thursday, January 7," Bawazir said in a tweet.

On the other hand, Mike Pence, the outgoing US Vice President Donald Trump, announced during a joint session of the US House of Representatives and Senate that Joe Biden had obtained 306 votes from the electoral college, in exchange for Trump getting 232 votes, so Biden won the presidency of the United States of America (USA), and a new era begins on the twentieth of the month ongoing.

A short while ago, the US House of Representatives refused to contest the results of the US presidential elections in Pennsylvania.

US Deputy National Security Adviser Matthew Pottinger resigned from his post, in protest against supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump's storming of the US Capitol.

This was mentioned by a source close to Pottinger to the US (CNN) network today, Thursday, without going into further details in this regard.

On Wednesday, pro-Trump protesters stormed the US Congress (Capitol) in an unprecedented attempt to prevent Congress from certifying President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the presidential election, and this caused the outbreak of protests that killed four people.

Sky News reported, in breaking news to it a short while ago, that Acting US Defense Secretary Chris Miller signs a decision to send a new batch of 6,200 National Guard forces to Washington, DC.