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A police officer died along with the driver of a vehicle that rammed barricades at the US Capitol Building on Friday, provoking a lockdown at the seat of Congress. Yogananda Pittman, acting chief of the United States Capitol Police, said a suspect and one of the force’s officers were dead while a second officer was taken to hospital

US stocks hit a new record, propelled higher by technology shares, while government bonds rallied in the return of a popular pandemic trade that banks on continued social curbs and supportive monetary policy. A rally in tech stocks helped power the benchmark S&P 500 pass 4,000 points for the first time, rising 1 per cent