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News Wrap: Officers who defended Capitol on Jan. 6 sue to block $1.8B fund

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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In our news wrap Wednesday, two police officers who defended the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot filed a lawsuit to try to block the Trump administration's "anti-weaponization fund," the World Health Organization says there are now more than 600 suspected cases from an Ebola outbreak in central Africa and former Congressman Barney Frank, a trailblazer for gay rights, has died. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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In the day's other headlines, two police officers who defended the Capitol on January 6th

0:05.7

filed a lawsuit today to try to block the government's so-called anti-weaponization fund.

0:11.3

Former Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn and Officer Daniel Hodges of the Metropolitan Police

0:15.8

Department say the Trump administration created the fund, quote, to finance the insurrectionists and paramilitary groups

0:22.7

that commit violence in his name.

0:24.9

The administration says it's meant to compensate those

0:27.3

who believe they've been mistreated by the U.S. legal system.

0:30.7

During congressional testimony yesterday,

0:32.6

acting Attorney General Todd Blanche did not rule out

0:35.6

whether that could include January 6th rioters.

0:38.9

More than 100 police officers were injured during that attack.

0:42.9

The World Health Organization says there are now more than 600 suspected cases from an Ebola

0:48.0

outbreak in Central Africa and at least 139 suspected deaths.

0:53.0

But at their briefing today, officials said, quote,

0:55.0

the scale of the epidemic is much larger.

0:58.0

They also warn that a vaccine likely won't be available for up to nine months.

1:02.0

Meantime on the ground, health workers say they're underprepared to deal with the outbreak.

1:08.0

Local communities continue to suffer and grieve

1:11.2

with one woman describing the symptoms of her dying son.

1:17.9

He told me his heart hurt, and I thought it was his stomach.

1:21.1

Then he started crying because of the pain in his stomach.

1:24.3

After that, he started vomiting.

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