U.S. Capitol riot

A prosecutor says Proud Boys leaders charged with plotting to use violence to keep Donald Trump in power saw the far-right extremist group as the former president’s “army.” A jury on Monday began hearing closing arguments for the trial of former Proud Boys national chairman Enrique Tarrio and four lieutenants. Tarrio is among the top targets of the Justice Department’s...

Two Florida men have been convicted of storming the U.S. Capitol during the January 2021 insurrection. Court records show 25-year-old Joshua Doolin and 39-year-old Michael Perkins were each found guilty of felony civil disorder and multiple other charges. Sentencing is scheduled for July 13. According to court documents, Doolin and Perkins joined with others objecting to Democrat Joe Biden’s 2020...

Opening statements were underway for former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four lieutenants accused of leading a coordinated attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. NBC 6’s Heather Walker reports

On the second anniversary of the January 6 Capitol attacks, LX News Political Editor Noah Pransky breaks down the numbers of that deadly day in Washington D.C. – and how American opinions have shifted in its aftermath.

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Friday that he was appointing a former federal prosector as special counsel into the Justice Department’s investigations into former President Donald Trump.

Cassidy Hutchinson, former senior aide to chief of staff Mark Meadows, testified Tuesday that former President Donald Trump had thrown a plate at a White House wall after former Attorney General Bill Barr spoke out against claims of election fraud. “There was ketchup dripping down the wall and there was a shattered porcelain plate on the floor.”

One of the dozens of police officers injured during the U.S. Capitol riot has testified that he didn’t punch or instigate a fight with a man in the mob

The request followed news that the justice’s wife, Virginia Thomas, urged then-President Trump’s top aide Mark Meadows to try to overturn Biden’s election win.

A federal judge said Donald Trump likely broke the law by “corruptly” attempting to obstruct the confirmation of President Joe Biden’s Electoral College win.

A former Virginia police officer has pleaded guilty to storming the U.S. Capitol with another former officer who is scheduled to be tried next month on charges related to the riot

The committee, which is investigating the invasion of the Capitol by a mob of Trump’s supporters, had invited Ivanka Trump to sit for a voluntary interview.

President Joe Biden has rejected former President Donald Trump’s privilege claims over White House visitor logs from the day of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

It is unknown whether the gap in the records is the result of Trump’s habit of using his personal cell phone as president, NBC reported.

The Jan. 6 Capitol riot probe committee wants to question Trump aide Peter Navarro about efforts to delay certification of President Joe Biden’s election win.

Cheney and Kinzinger are the only Republicans on the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot by former President Donald Trump’s supporters.

The Republican National Committee has censured two GOP lawmakers for participating on the committee investigating the violent Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol

The top staff investigator for the House Jan. 6 panel was fired from his position at the University of Virginia by the state’s new GOP attorney general.

Trump ended the call as Inskeep started to ask a question about the deadly invasion of the Capitol last year by a mob of Trump’s supporters.

A House panel investigating the Capitol riot poured cold water on a conspiracy suggesting the FBI was involved in inciting the Jan. 6 invasion.

The new domestic terror unit was unveiled days after the anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot, when former President Donald Trump’s supporters invaded the Capitol.