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The House select committee investigating the Capitol riot said Thursday that Vice President Mike Pence was in danger after he rebuffed President Donald Trump’s scheme to stop the election of Joe Biden. The committee also revealed that the lawyer who devised the scheme, John Eastman, asked for a pardon before Trump left office. Pence turned back entreaties by Trump...

A White House lawyer said he responded to efforts to overturn the election by telling an attorney for the president, “Are you out of your effing mind?” Eric Herschmann said that was how he responded to John Eastman, the lawyer who developed the strategy to overturn President Donald Trump’s loss to Joe Biden. “I said I only want to...

The House committee investigating the riot that swept over the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, began presenting a case Thursday that Donald Trump knew he lost the 2020 presidential election but continued to falsely claim that it had been stolen from him while he worked to change the results.

Ivanka Trump acknowledged that she had been persuaded by statements by the former attorney general, William Barr, that talk of election fraud was false.

Republican Liz Cheney, the vice chair of the committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot, said former President Donald Trump refused to call off his supporters, even when they began chanting, “Hang Mike Pence.”

Former President Donald Trump is dangling the prospect of pardons for supporters who participated in the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol if he returns to the White House

Alvin Bragg has already notched one historic first, being sworn in Saturday as Manhattan’s first Black district attorney

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol issued subpoenas on Monday to Roger Stone and Alex Jones, among other high-profile allies of former President Donald Trump, for their possible connection to the riot.

The United States Football League is relaunching four decades after the spring league shook up professional football in the mid-1980s

Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow and a prominent defender of former President Donald Trump, will be a featured speaker at a conservative organization’s fundraiser in New Hampshire this summer, the group announced. The fundraising dinner, hosted by 603 Alliance, will conclude a full-day conference for “right-of-center activists,” the group said in a save the date announcement Sunday. Lindell, who…

Inauguration Day is also moving day at the White House. It’s typically a precision operation carried out in about five hours as the residence staff labors to move out one leader and settle in another. The clock normally starts ticking when the outgoing and incoming presidents leave the White House together to head to the Capitol for the swearing-in ceremony....

President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial is likely to begin after Joe Biden’s inauguration next week

Facing waning support from longtime backers and donors in the wake of the attack at the U_S_ Capitol last week, Republican Missouri Sen_ Josh Hawley has defended himself in a newspaper column, accusing the media and the “Washington establishment” of deceiving Americans into calling him an “insurrectionist.”

Authorities say a man who was photographed wearing a “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt during the U.S. Capitol riot last week has been arrested in Virginia.

Amid mounting speculation, New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick announced that he would not accept the Presidential Medal of Freedom this week in the aftermath of the deadly pro-Trump riot at the Capitol. White House officials said Sunday Trump was set to award Belichick with the medal this week in the waning days of his administration. The two have had…

With just days left in his presidency, Donald Trump will award New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick the Medal of Freedom later this week, according to a White House official. The award, established by President John F. Kennedy in 1963, is America’s highest civilian honor. It is awarded to people “who have made exceptional contributions to the security or…

The pardons of four Blackwater contractors convicted in the shooting deaths of more than a dozen Iraqi civilians has prompted outrage from some human rights activists and Iraqis.

The FBI alleges in an affidavit that white supremacists schemed to attack power stations in the southeastern U.S. and one Ohio teenager wanted the group to be “operational” on a faster timeline if President Donald Trump lost his re-election bid

A defense bill that has passed every year since the Kennedy administration is in danger of failing

President Donald Trump made a campaign visit to Maine on Sunday aiming to lock up a swing electoral vote as he did four years ago. After a rally in New Hampshire, Trump made the surprise stop at the Treworgy Family Orchard in Levant where supporters lined the streets along the route from Bangor International Airport, where he landed. Voters in…