The decision comes more than a week after a mob of President Donald Trump's supporters marched across the park and stormed the U.S. Capitol.

"There's always been a deep clean between administrations, but we've never seen anything like this," presidential historian Kate Brower Andersen said.

The flag has become a symbol for different things: anti-communism, U.S. imperialism, democracy and recollection of the past.

A Florida singer who one graced the stage at Carnegie Hall screamed obscenities as she rushed through the U.S. Capitol during last week's riots.

"The department has concluded that Joe the Pigeon is highly likely to be Australian and does not present a biosecurity risk."

Russia told the United Nations this week it plans to withdraw the 300 "military instructors" it sent to the Central African Republic at the end of 2020 for the presidential election, diplomats told AFP Friday. "The Russians have informed the UN that they...