Police officers say Jan. 6 plaque is hidden from the public&x27;s view Megan LebowitzThu, March 12, 2026 at 1:24 PM UTC 33 A tour group walks by a plaque honoring the police officers who defended the Capitol against rioting Trump supporters on Jan. 6, 2021. (Allison Robbert / AP) (Allison Robbert) Two police officers who protected the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, are seeking to continue their lawsuit over a plaque commemorating their and other officers' actions that day after it was installed last week "in an area blocked to the public," their court filing said.

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A tour group walks by a plaque honoring the police officers who defended the Capitol against rioting Trump supporters on Jan. 6, 2021. (Allison Robbert / AP) (Allison Robbert)

Two police officers who protected the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, are seeking to continue their lawsuit over a plaque commemorating their and other officers' actions that day after it was installed last week "in an area blocked to the public," their court filing said.

Tuesday's court filing argues that the "decision to install the plaque in a part of the Capitol hidden from the public fails to comply with the text law."

Former Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn and Metropolitan Police Officer Daniel Hodges sued the Architect of the Capitol last year over the delay in implementing a 2022 law requiring the installation of a plaque honoring law enforcement officers who defended the Capitol against rioting supporters of President Donald Trump. The Architect of the Capitol agency is tasked with preserving the Capitol building and grounds.

In Tuesday's court filing, the lawyer for the officers argued that the recent installation violated the text and the spirit of the law, pointing to the legislation's purpose to "honor" the officers.

"Honor is a social — that is, public — recognition," their lawyer, Brendan Ballou, wrote. "Hidden from all visitors, the current location is no different than the basement the plaque was kept in for years."

Ballou also pointed out that the law required the plaque to be permanently displayed on the "western front" of the building's exterior.

NBC News has reached out to the Architect of the Capitol and the Justice Department for comment.

Metropolitan Police Officer Daniel Hodges, U.S. Capitol Police Sergeant Aquilino Gonell, and U.S. Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn at the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, D.C., in Oct. 2022. (Drew Angerer / Getty Images file) (Drew Angerer)

House Speaker Mike Johnson's office had argued that the law was "not implementable," pointing to language in the law that said the names of officers should be on the plaque, while the plaque that was created instead listed law enforcement agencies. Johnson, R-La., had sought to aid Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, leading a group of House Republicans in a U.S. Supreme Court brief supporting Texas' lawsuit contesting the results in four swing states that then-President-elect Joe Biden won.

In January, the Senate unanimously voted to hang the plaque to honor the law enforcement officers. The resolution required it to be "prominently" displayed "in a publicly accessible location in the Senate wing of the United States Capitol."

On Saturday, staff from the Architect of the Capitol's office installed a plaque, which read, "On behalf of a grateful Congress, this plaque honors the extraordinary individuals who bravely protected and defended this symbol of democracy on January 6, 2021."

"Their heroism will never be forgotten," it continued.

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Starmer&x27;s pick of Epstein &x27;pal&x27; as top British envoy haunts prime minister BRIAN MELLEY and JILL LAWLESS Thu, March 12, 2026 at 3:02 PM UTC 0 1 / 0Britain Epstein MandelsonBritain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer leaves 10 Downing Street to attend the weekly Prime Ministers' Questions session in parliament in London, Wednesday, March 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein) () LONDON (AP) — News that Prime Minister Keir Starmer ignored warnings of senior advisers and appointed Jeffrey Epstein's pal Peter Mandelson as Britain's ambassador to the U.S. was bad for the embattled leader.

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LONDON (AP) — News that Prime Minister Keir Starmer ignored warnings of senior advisers and appointed Jeffrey Epstein's pal Peter Mandelson as Britain's ambassador to the U.S. was bad for the embattled leader. It seems unlikely to improve.

Starmer continues to weather the fallout from Mandelson's appointment — and later sacking — but the nearly 150 pages of documents released by his government Wednesday were just a small fraction of the thousands of pages still to come.

"It's hard to believe that later releases are going to persuade anybody to see the PM's decision in a better light," said Tim Bale, politics professor at Queen Mary University of London. "It's damning stuff and, if the country weren't preoccupied with rather more important Middle Eastern matters at the moment, it might even have hastened Starmer's departure."

Starmer picked an ambassador tainted by scandal

Documents confirmed what was already known: Starmer chose the savvy veteran politician despite a reputation tainted by previous scandals and ties to Epstein.

The due diligence checklist released from Mandelson's vetting highlighted in bold letters the red flags Starmer ignored, spelling out where his relationship with Epstein could expose the government to "reputational risk."

It also spelled out unrelated reputational issues over Mandelson's work in a previous Labour government — when he twice had to resign over financial matters — and his work at Global Counsel, a lobbying firm he co-founded.

In one document, Starmer was warned that making a political appointment to the post was riskier than choosing a veteran diplomat, as is more common in Britain.

"If anything goes wrong, you could be more exposed as the individual is more connected to you personally," then-Cabinet Secretary Simon Case advised.

Starmer fired Mandelson in September after documents showed he maintained contact with Epstein — whom he once called his "best pal" — after the financier's 2008 conviction for sexual offenses involving a minor.

Starmer says Mandelson misled him about the depth and extent of his friendship with the convicted sex offender. He said he regrets ever giving him the ambassador's job.

"It was me that made a mistake, and it's me that makes the apology to the victims of Epstein, and I do that," Starmer said Thursday.

Documents released so far have not provided evidence to back up Starmer's claim he was misled, in part because police investigating Mandelson requested that correspondence between the prime minister and Mandelson be withheld to protect the integrity of the probe.

Mandelson was briefly arrested last month on allegations he passed sensitive government information to Epstein a decade and a half ago. He has denied wrongdoing and hasn't been charged. He does not face allegations of sexual misconduct.

Defense lawyer Marcus Johnstone, who is not connected to Mandelson, said civil servants, government lawyers and the police had probably fought a "small war" behind closed doors before deciding what documents to release. He said that fight will continue as batches of thousands of pages of documents are released in the weeks and months ahead.

"We need to remember that the files we are seeing today are only the thin end of the wedge on Mandelson," Johnstone said. "But we should be under no illusions that what we are currently seeing is anything like the full picture."

A question of judgment

Despite firing Mandelson in September, Starmer faced new questions about his judgment when a huge trove of files published by the U.S. Department of Justice in January provided more details about Mandelson's ties with Epstein. Opponents and even some members of the governing Labour Party called for the prime minister's resignation.

Starmer survived the immediate danger, but his position remains fragile, even though he never met Epstein and is not implicated in his crimes.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch on Thursday accused Starmer of lying to Parliament about the appointment and suggested Labour members of Parliament reconsider his leadership.

"It is very clear that he told lie after lie after lie about the appointment of Peter Mandelson," Badenoch said. "He wanted to make this all about Peter Mandelson. This is about his judgments."

The prime minister's spokesperson Tom Wells said Thursday that proper rules were followed in scrutinizing Mandelson, but the vetting process needs to be improved.

Crisis is overshadowed by the Iran war

Starmer has often appeared more sure-footed on the international stage than at home and that could provide the political cover he needs at this time.

He responded cautiously to the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran — not joining in the airstrikes, which he hinted broke international law, and initially refusing to let American warplanes use British bases.

After Iran struck back by firing missiles and drones at neighboring countries, Starmer said U.S. planes could use U.K. bases to strike Iran's missile program, but not other targets.

Starmer's reticence angered Trump, who complained last week that Starmer was "not Winston Churchill." But polls suggest his reaction to the war aligns broadly with public sentiment, which is wary of deeper involvement in the conflict.

"The whole affair, while certainly doing nothing to help him, seems — rightly or wrongly — pretty inconsequential in the grand scheme of things," Bale said about the Mandelson documents.

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In Tehran, hope for change turns to panic: &x27;They are turning the country into ruins&x27; Babak Dehghanpisheh Thu, March 12, 2026 at 5:33 PM UTC 3 A woman sits on a pile of rubble outside a residential building in Tehran on Thursday. (Vahid Salemi / AP) (Vahid Salemi) Hoda was so furious over Iran's violent crackdown on protesters in January that she wanted the country's security forces to be attacked as payback. Then the bombs began to batter areas near her Tehran home. "I was always against these people and thought it would be limited and finished fast," she said of the U.S.

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Hoda was so furious over Iran's violent crackdown on protesters in January that she wanted the country's security forces to be attacked as payback. Then the bombs began to batter areas near her Tehran home.

"I was always against these people and thought it would be limited and finished fast," she said of the U.S. and Israeli attacks. "I regret that and take it back. They are turning the country into ruins."

Hoda, 40, like others interviewed for this article, asked that only her first name be used out of fear of arrest or harassment from security forces.

Debris litters the floor inside the Golestan Palace in Tehran on March 3, after it was damaged by U.S. and Israeli airstrikes. (Majid Saeedi / Getty Images) (Majid Saeedi)

Since the war started, the U.S. and Israeli military have targeted multiple locations across the country, but it is in Tehran, a bustling, densely packed metropolis of some 10 million people, where the strikes have been felt the most. As of Thursday, more than 1,200 people had been killed by Israeli and American strikes, according to the Iranian Red Crescent Society.

In addition to substantial damage to historical cultural sites in Tehran, like the ornate Golestan Palace, the targeting of oil facilities has added a surreal element to life in the capital, residents say, with thick smoke in the air and black rain coming down that has left a slimy residue on cars. Many people stay off the streets, where being stuck in two to three-hour traffic jams to cross the city was the norm before the war started.

Hoda lives with her 45-year-old brother, Hadi, and their elderly parents in a house in central Tehran. In recent days, the toxic fires from the bombings have left a weird smell and a greasy film on the windows, she said.

She is now worried about the long-term economic impact of the war. Her business — importing carpet-weaving machines — has been hit hard in the past year, she said, and even getting money for daily expenses has become a chore. Banks keep limited hours and ATMs have a daily withdrawal limit of 500,000 tomans, or roughly $3. Many people now just use debit cards where they can. Prices on basic goods have ramped up about 10% since the war started, residents say.

In the case of Hadi, who also asked to withhold his last name out of safety concerns, his tourism company folded after the war last summer, the protests and the persistent internet cuts in the past year. His 13-year-old daughter and his ex-wife have moved to the Caspian Sea coast in northern Iran, where many Tehran residents have fled in the last weeks, either to family homes or short-term rental properties. Hadi said he paid for his daughter to attend a private school but is now questioning his choice since she has not been able to attend for more than 100 days in this school year.

Hoda and her brother spend much of their day watching satellite news channels or checking news on the internet through a VPN for which they pay 3.8 million tomans, or approximately $23, per month.

Hoda said she has watched on satellite TV channels as members of the Iranian diaspora talk about the possibility of former Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi leading the country, but says they are out of touch with the realities on the ground.

"They don't have a sense of what it feels like when a jet is on top of your house and you think you are dead every day," she said.

Not far away, Kianoosh, 46, said he was terrified and struggling to process the momentous change that could be coming to Iran after years of living under a strict theocracy. Several sports complexes and other areas near him in central Tehran were hit.

"We hear nonstop explosions," he said. "How long can this go on?"

Kianoosh, a documentary filmmaker, moved in with his parents after the war started to keep them safe. While there have been some power cuts, there is no sign yet of the massive blackouts and water shortages that plagued Tehran last year, he said. For him, daily life is an odd rhythm of boredom — he recently watched the film "Interstellar" to pass the time, he said — punctuated by explosions.

But Kianoosh frequently finds himself thinking about the millions of Iranians, an entire generation, that have been denied the chance to live an ordinary life. As much as he is concerned about the bombs, he said he also worries that both sides will declare victory and walk away, leaving the country in an uncertain limbo.

Fresh produce on sale at a bazaar in Tehran on March 10. (Fatemeh Bahrami/ / Anadolu via Getty Images) (Fatemeh Bahrami/)

The projects he used to work on, like a documentary about rare Asiatic cheetahs in Iran, no longer seem possible with the chaos of two wars in less than a year and massive nationwide protests.

Kianoosh now lives off his savings and wonders how an economy that was already teetering will recover from the war. "Normal life has slipped away," he said.

Concerns about the economy also loom large on Amin, a 42-year-old café owner, even though his business is booming for now.

The start of the war coincided with Ramadan, a time when many Iranians, religious or not, use the monthlong observance as an excuse to meet with family and friends after sunset.

Amin's café has turned into a hangout spot where people come to discuss the war and smoke qalyoon water pipes. Authorities have not been harassing him about men and women mixing in the café, which stays open until around 2 a.m.

During the day, Amin and his wife walk in a nearby park and fret about the country and the economy.

"We're not rich," he said. "If this drags on, we will have issues."

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Michelinstarred Noma head chef resigns following abuse allegations Sam Peters, CNNThu, March 12, 2026 at 3:34 PM UTC 1 René Redzepi, head chef and cofounder of the restaurant Noma, has resigned following allegations of abuse. Thibault Savary/AFP/Getty Images/File The head chef and cofounder of Noma, one of the highestrated restaurants in the world and recipient of three Michelin stars, has resigned following allegations that he physically and psychologically abused staff. René Redzepi announced on social media Wednesday that he was stepping down from leading the Copenhagen restaurant.

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The head chef and co-founder of Noma, one of the highest-rated restaurants in the world and recipient of three Michelin stars, has resigned following allegations that he physically and psychologically abused staff.

René Redzepi announced on social media Wednesday that he was stepping down from leading the Copenhagen restaurant.

It comes after a March 7 report by The New York Times that detailed alleged abuses by Redzepi between 2009 and 2017.

According to the report, which spoke to 35 former members of staff, Redzepi "punched employees in the face, jabbed them with kitchen implements and slammed them against walls."

Redzepi said in the Instagram statement: "The recent weeks have brought attention and important conversations about our restaurant, industry, and my past leadership."

"I have worked to be a better leader and Noma has taken big steps to transform the culture over many years," Redzepi continued. "I recognise these changes do not repair the past. An apology is not enough; I take full responsibility for my own actions."

"After more than two decades of building and leading this restaurant, I've decided to step away and allow our extraordinary leaders to now guide the restaurant into its next chapter," the statement said.

Redzepi said he has also resigned from the board of MAD, a non-profit he founded in 2011 to help burgeoning chefs.

CNN has contacted Redzepi and Noma for comment.

His resignation came as a new pop-up by Noma opened in Los Angeles Wednesday. The meal features a tasting menu that costs $1,500 per person. Reservations for the 16-week residency reportedly sold out in less than three minutes.

Protesters from the wage advocacy group One Fair Wage gathered outside the Paramour Estate, where the pop-up restaurant is being held, on Wednesday. They were led by Jason Ignacio White, the former head of Noma's fermentation lab, who has been collating allegations of abuse by Redzepi on his Instagram and website.

In a separate Instagram statement posted on the weekend, Redzepi said: "I want to address past stories around my leadership in the kitchen that have resurfaced recently. Although I don't recognize all details in these stories, I can see enough of my past behavior reflected in them to understand that my actions were harmful to people who worked with me."

He apologized in that statement "to those who have suffered under my leadership," adding that he has "worked to change."

In response to reports circulating on the weekend about the allegations, Noma posted on its Instagram: "Although the stories appear to date back many years, we take them seriously and are looking into them carefully. Since that time, we have improved the process to address concerns."

Redzepi wrote about his behavior in a 2015 essay, saying, "I've been a bully for a large part of my career. I've yelled and pushed people." In the essay, he said that he had attempted to reform his behavior and change the environment in the kitchen.

In a 2022 interview with The Times of London, he said that he had "never hit anyone," but had "probably bumped into people."

Noma was founded in 2003 by Redzepi and Claus Meyer in the Danish capital and quickly gained worldwide attention for championing New Nordic cuisine, relying on local and foraged ingredients.

It was ranked the best restaurant in the world five times by the World's 50 Best Restaurants list and held three Michelin stars before it stopped service in 2024. Noma is now a "giant lab" dedicated to food innovation, the restaurant said in a statement at the time.

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Monét X Change — beloved sponge queen — is soaking up all of the chaotic vibes after being blocked from winning another Legendary Legend Star for the first time on *RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 7*.

Though she stirred the pot by forming an alliance with fellow* All Stars 4 *winner Trinity The Tuck back on episode 1 of the first all-winners competition in *Drag Race* her-story, Monét says in an exclusive EW's BINGE podcast interview (below) that she suspects an alternate, secret alliance is brewing among her sisters outside the *AS4* coalition — specifically, as she says, including *Drag Race UK*'s The Vivienne, who handed Monét the Platinum Plunger on Friday's episode.

"Jaida did hand it to her, so, maybe they have some situation working that I'm not privy to, and I'm very curious to see what ends up happening," Monét says of the moment Jaida Essence Hall handed The Vivienne a xylophone prop from off-stage to enhance her lip-sync performance at the end of the episode, which helped her win the dance-off and ultimately gave her the ability to block Monét. "We haven't seen it yet, I don't know where we're at or what you've seen or what makes the cut, but I definitely thought there was a smoker's alliance going on, and this was furthering my point."

When asked if she knew that Jaida was going to spruce up The Vivienne's performance with the prop hand-off, Monét maintains that she had no idea the exchange would happen.

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"I think that it's part of the alliance. Maybe it did happen, but I did not see any talks of them giving someone a xylophone, about who's going to do the *American Bandstand*," Monét explains. "So, I think there's some alliance that we're going to find out about, and people will see that I was not the only one playing the game."

While she still has her eyes on Jaida, Monét counts The Vivienne out of her plan for an alliance, joking that she "will absolutely come for that bitch" after the British queen's latest move.

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Rebecca Gayheart Says Family Is &x27;Still in a State of Shock&x27; 1 Month After Eric Dane&x27;s Death Brenton BlanchetThu, March 12, 2026 at 3:47 PM UTC 0 Rebecca Gayheart and Eric Dane attend the "Help Haiti Home" gala on Jan. 10, 2015 in Los AngelesCredit: Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic Rebecca Gayheart is sharing how her family has been doing in the weeks since Eric Dane's death The actress told Variety that the family is "still in a state of shock" and that she's thankful to "everybody for being so kind to us during the last couple of years" amid his ALS journey "We have a lovely community of p...

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Rebecca Gayheart is sharing how her family has been doing in the weeks since Eric Dane's death

The actress told Variety that the family is "still in a state of shock" and that she's thankful to "everybody for being so kind to us during the last couple of years" amid his ALS journey

"We have a lovely community of people, and I'm so grateful for them," she added

Rebecca Gayheart's family is "still in a state of shock" after Eric Dane's death.

Dane's widow shared in a Variety interview published Wednesday, March 11, how their family is doing almost one month after the Euphoria star died on Feb. 19.

Dane, who was 53, died 10 months after revealing his amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) diagnosis.

"I just want to thank everybody for being so kind to us during the last couple of years. It's been challenging and meaningful, and people are kind," Gayheart, 54, said. "I'm having trouble receiving all of the support and love coming at me from every which way because of Eric and the [entertainment] community that's so generous with their time."

She added, "They've been holding me and the girls up the last two weeks, and I don't think they're going anywhere. I think they're in it for the long haul. Hollywood gets a bad rap. That kind of makes me mad, because we have a lovely community of people, and I'm so grateful for them."

Dane and Gayheart, who wed in 2003 and separated in 2018, share daughters Billie, 16, and Georgia, 14. She remained a key caregiver for Dane amid his ALS journey.

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In her latest chat with Variety, Gayheart detailed how Dane had collaborated with artificial intelligence firm ElevenLabs to restore his ability to communicate with his family.

The ElevenLabs Impact Program, per its website, "provides free licenses to individuals with accessibility needs and nonprofit organizations across healthcare, education and culture." The voice restoration project discussed by Gayheart creates a synthetic voice for people by using past recordings.

As she explained, Dane was "losing his voice, and it was becoming more difficult for him to communicate each and every day." So he was "excited" about the project and would listen to his own voice recreation.

"He was waiting anxiously to hear it, and when we got it from ElevenLabs it was a really big moment. It was a powerful moment," she said. "We played it, and Eric became visibly emotional. And when I heard it, I cried. I think everyone in the room did."

"He wanted to advocate for love and for the movement [around ALS] and so I'm there to do this for him," Gayheart added. "For a million people to get a voice to be able to communicate with their children or their loved ones or their caretakers or their doctors or in their job — this is a really huge movement."

Dane's family confirmed this death to PEOPLE last month after what they described as a "courageous battle with ALS."

"He spent his final days surrounded by dear friends, his devoted wife, and his two beautiful daughters, Billie and Georgia, who were the center of his world," the family statement read.

"Throughout his journey with ALS, Eric became a passionate advocate for awareness and research, determined to make a difference for others facing the same fight," it continued. "He will be deeply missed, and lovingly remembered always. Eric adored his fans and is forever grateful for the outpouring of love and support he's received. The family has asked for privacy as they navigate this impossible time."

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