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Watch: Cannon House Office Building Evacuated

By Alex Gangitano
Posted October 25, 2018 at 5:18pm

By Alex Gangitano and Thomas McKinless

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The Cannon House Office building was evacuated Thursday morning, one day after several prominent Democrats, including Rep. Maxine Waters and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, were targets of mailed explosive devices. Capitol Police began letting congressional staffers back into the building around 1 p.m.

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