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The marker was installed on the Senate side of the Capitol and is expected to stay there until both chambers can agree on a more permanent place for it.Just before dawn Saturday, a plaque honoring U.S. Capitol Police along with other law enforcement agencies who protected the Capitol on Jan. 6 was installed. It comes more than five years after insurrectionists stormed the building. The Senate voted to install the plaque after the House GOP refused to display it. “I think that speaks volumes about, they’re doing this because they were forced to do it, and they did it in...

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How to Win the War on Terror BY RICHARD A. CLARKE  Editor's note: Richard A. Clarke, former head of counterterrorism at the National Security Council, is the author of "Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror." Now that the presidential campaign is behind us, it's time for the nation's political leaders to recognize what many experts in the counterterrorism field have been saying for a long time: America needs to change course in the war on terror. International jihadist groups have conducted twice as many attacks since Sept. 11, 2001 as they did in the three years prior to...