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Fayetteville, North Carolina Police Chief Gina V. Hawkins held a Sunday evening briefing about the shooting death of a 37-year-old man named Jason Walker. Hawkins went on to deliver some details investigators have been able to gather in the beginning part of the probe.

According to local police, they intend to hand over the investigation to the North Carolina Bureau of Investigation to research the behavior of a Cumberland County Sheriff's Deputy. Thus far, the name of the shooter hasn't been released to the public.

Residents in an apartment building in New York City must find somewhere else to stay Sunday night after a space heater caused a fire that has killed 17 people, including eight children.

According to Mayor Eric Adams, just under 70 people were injured and about half of those were sent to hospitals with serious injuries.

Former Donald Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort was part of the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller. But amid the investigation, it was discovered that Manafort was skirting international lobbying laws, falsifying his tax returns, bank fraud and other charges. Now, the publishing house Simon And Schuster is giving Manafort a book deal.

A jury found him guilty of eight charges, but Manafort has played the victim as a kind political prisoner because the crimes were discovered while Trump was under investigation. Trump then rescued Manafort with a pardon.

It was reported Sunday that former White House staffers to Donald Trump were annoyed with the former president using Fox hosts to guide his political strategy. That same report also revealed that Fox hosts grew jealous of each other because of how frequently they'd speak to Donald Trump.

Earlier on, short-lived chief of staff John Kelly told staffers to monitor Fox shows like Lou Dobbs to better anticipate what Trump would say and how to respond to him.

Fiona Hill, the former National Security Council expert and adviser to Donald Trump, addressed the international community's fear about what's happening in the United States.

One headline cited says that the next election will determine whether "the U.S. is hurtling toward autocracy" and if Canada should intervene. Other headlines show that the international community is fearful America could fall "off the cliff" in 2022 and gave a guide on how Canadians can hold on while sharing a concerning border to the south.

The Trump flags were waving in the cold Washington, D.C. wind on Jan. 6. Red "Make America Great Again" hats dotted the steps of the U.S. Capitol. Once they broke through the windows and doors of the 229-year-old building chants "stop the steal" echoed through the halls. Outside a gallows was erected to chants of "Hang Mike Pence."

One year later, Republicans are trying to claim all of those people were really secret liberals, reported the New York Times. They think these secret liberals spent hundreds of dollars on Trump campaign gear, traveled across the U.S. on Republican-organized buses, stood for hours in the cold listening to then-President Trump speak for over an hour, and then walked over a mile to the U.S. Capitol building before raging a stampede inside.

The Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol hasn't been good for the Republican Party brand. In the weeks after the insurrection, The New York Times reviewed the voter registration numbers in 25 states showing that 140,000 people had left the Republican Party.

Reporting in Slate.com, Molly Olmstead cited an analysis from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel claiming that for those leaving the GOP in their area, the anger was really just short-lived. They claimed that some of the people who left the GOP were uncomfortable with the extremism but others left because they felt Republicans abandoned Trump supporters after the riot.

Supporters of President Donald Trump have attempted to lionize Capitol attacker Ashli Babbitt in wake of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. One Fox News host went so far as to lash out at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for refusing to mention Ashli Babbitt as part of the moment of silence for law enforcement who died in the wake of the attack.

Calling them "our heroes," Pelosi listed the names of those officers, which prompted Fox News host Harris Faulkner to say Pelosi didn't count the "fifth person killed that day." Presumably, Faulkner means Babbitt.

Former Department of Defense special counsel Ryan Goodman crafted a list of important things that happened related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. government that have been unreported or underreported and deserve greater amplification.

Taking to Twitter, Goodman first predicted that the day is quickly approaching when the Justice Department will take on former President Donald Trump's "co-conspirator (for lack of a better term) Jeffrey Clark as Attorney General."

MSNBC panelists and host Stephanie Ruhle noted that the speech from President Joe Biden about Jan. 6 was his most emphatic, clearest and forceful dissection of Donald Trump's lies.

Speaking Thursday, Biden said, "No one can place a dagger on the throat of democracy."

MSNBC reporter Garrett Haake called out Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) for his denial of facts about the Jan. 6 attack.

"It's the same date on both of their calendars but they are looking at it almost entirely differently other than that," Haake said of Democrats and Republicans. "As all the events today were organized by Democratic leadership, the president of the United States on down to the Speaker of the House with events all day long and they will be attended by almost exclusively Democrats, no congressional House Republicans except for perhaps Liz Cheney (R-WY) are expected to attend. Kevin McCarthy isn't even in Washington, D.C. today. No Senate Republicans to my knowledge are expected to attend any of these events, although many of them, a majority of that conference will be at the funeral for one of their own former Georgia Sen. Johnny Isakson down in Georgia."

Speaking to "The Today Show" on the Jan. 6 anniversary, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) said that she thinks the United States was "very close" to being overthrown by Donald Trump and his cadre of associates.

"Our institutions held, but they only held because of the people who were willing to stand up against the pressure from former President Trump, people at his own Department of Justice who stood up to him. Elected officials at the state level who stood up to him and the law enforcement officers here at the Capitol," said Cheney.