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Law enforcement and state officials are on high alert for potentially violent protests in the lead-up to Inauguration Day, with some state capitols boarded up and others temporarily closed ahead of Wednesday's ceremony.

Joe Biden's top aide said Saturday the incoming president would sign about a dozen executive orders on his first day in office, as police fearing violence from Trump supporters staged a nationwide security operation ahead of the inauguration.

Ahead of right-wing protests planned for Sunday, law enforcement stepped up security at capitols around the nation.

The Latest on the fallout and increased security efforts after the attack of the U.S. Capitol by proTrump loyalists (all times local):

Wesley Allen Beeler was arrested Friday after he tried to pass a security checkpoint with hundreds of rounds of ammunition and multiple guns.

Alabama man Lonnie Coffman, 70, faces 17 federal charges related to the Molotov cocktails and guns found in his truck near the U.S. Capitol riot.

The woman fatally shot by police during Wednesday's siege of the U.S. Capitol was identified by police Thursday as Ashli Babbitt, a U.S. Air Force veteran whose social media activity indicates she embraced far-fetched right-wing conspiracy theories.

The woman was identified as Ashli Babbitt, a U.S. Air Force veteran whose social media activity indicates she embraced far-fetched right-wing conspiracy theories

A 21-year-old man who hid from police in an East Texas church was charged with first-degree murder and felony assault in a shooting that left the pastor dead and two other people injured Sunday, a local sheriff said.

Three semi-automatic handguns and four bolt-action rifles have not been recovered despite OPP charging a suspect in a Calvin Township break-in on New Year's ...

Police seized a loaded handgun, fentanyl, crack cocaine and cash on Murray Street near King Edward Avenue at about noon on Tuesday.

Lethbridge police say a 39-year-old man from Taber has been arrested following a traffic stop on Saturday.

HALIFAX - A widening portrait of how a Nova Scotia mass killer acquired his weapons and stockpiled cash emerged Wednesday in the latest court-ordered release of documents.

One man is facing 78 criminal charges after Toronto police said they recovered more than $18 million in illegal drugs and 65 firearms at his apartment last month – the biggest single-day seizure in the service's history.

"This seizure is the biggest single-day drug and firearm seizure in [Toronto Police Service] history."

Judges will issue their verdict Wednesday on 14 suspected accomplices of the Islamist gunmen who murdered some of France's most famous cartoonists at weekly Charlie Hebo in 2015, killings that horrified the nation.

Unsealed court documents show Ottawa police expected to find a 9mm handgun and evidence of drug trafficking when they conducted a no-knock raid in an apartment tower where Anthony Aust plunged to his death. But there was no gun recovered.

MIAMI, USA (AFP) - US rapper Lil Wayne pleaded guilty Friday to possession of a firearm by a conv...

Haul of weapons used to 'establish a far-right network' in Germany, Austrian interior minister says.

The Saskatchewan RCMP Federal Serious and Organized Crime Unit North (FSOC-N) says it seized an estimated 1,000 doses, or 278 grams, of fentanyl after executing a search warrant at an Osler home.