{"id":7793,"date":"2021-01-12T12:14:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T04:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=7793"},"modified":"2021-01-12T12:14:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T04:14:30","slug":"state-of-emergency-declared-in-washington-dc-ahead-of-the-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=7793","title":{"rendered":"State of emergency declared in Washington DC ahead of the inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WASHINGTON, Jan.&nbsp;12 \u2014US President Donald Trump has declared a state of emergency in the nation&#8217;s capital ahead of President-elect Joe Biden&#8217;s inauguration on January 20, reported Sputnik news agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Today, President Donald J. Trump declared that an emergency exists in the District of Columbia and ordered Federal assistance to supplement the District\u2019s response efforts due to the emergency conditions resulting from the 59th Presidential Inauguration from January 11 to January 24, 2021,&#8221; the\u00a0White House said in a press release\u00a0on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/b9da1fb073374cad4ad62704ba654aee5f1a687b42cda-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"declared\" class=\"wp-image-7794\" width=\"457\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/b9da1fb073374cad4ad62704ba654aee5f1a687b42cda-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/b9da1fb073374cad4ad62704ba654aee5f1a687b42cda-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/b9da1fb073374cad4ad62704ba654aee5f1a687b42cda-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/b9da1fb073374cad4ad62704ba654aee5f1a687b42cda-160x100.jpg 160w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/b9da1fb073374cad4ad62704ba654aee5f1a687b42cda-350x219.jpg 350w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/b9da1fb073374cad4ad62704ba654aee5f1a687b42cda-800x500.jpg 800w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/b9da1fb073374cad4ad62704ba654aee5f1a687b42cda.jpg 1110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier on Monday, media reported that the FBI is warning that armed protests are being planned in all 50 US state capitals, including the US Capitol building, in the final days leading up to President-elect Joe Biden&#8217;s inauguration on January 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) are authorised to help ensure public safety and to protect property as part of an effort to lessen the threat of a catastrophe, the release said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On January 6, a group of Trump\u2019s loyalists stormed the US Capitol building, clashing with police, damaging property, seizing the inauguration stage and occupying the rotunda. The unrest took place after Trump urged his supporters to protest what he claims is a stolen election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernama.com\/en\/news.php?id=1920896\">BERNAMA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Jan.&nbsp;12 \u2014US President Donald Trump has declared a state of emergency in the nation&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/b9da1fb073374cad4ad62704ba654aee5f1a687b42cda.jpg",1110,694,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/b9da1fb073374cad4ad62704ba654aee5f1a687b42cda-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/b9da1fb073374cad4ad62704ba654aee5f1a687b42cda-300x188.jpg",300,188,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/b9da1fb073374cad4ad62704ba654aee5f1a687b42cda-768x480.jpg",640,400,true],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/b9da1fb073374cad4ad62704ba654aee5f1a687b42cda-1024x640.jpg",640,400,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/b9da1fb073374cad4ad62704ba654aee5f1a687b42cda.jpg",1110,694,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/b9da1fb073374cad4ad62704ba654aee5f1a687b42cda.jpg",1110,694,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/b9da1fb073374cad4ad62704ba654aee5f1a687b42cda.jpg",1110,694,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/b9da1fb073374cad4ad62704ba654aee5f1a687b42cda.jpg",1024,640,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/b9da1fb073374cad4ad62704ba654aee5f1a687b42cda.jpg",720,450,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=59\" rel=\"category\">World<\/a>","tag_info":"World","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7795,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7793\/revisions\/7795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}