U.S. Capitol

Capitol Police detained a production team for ‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,’ including Robert Smigel, the man behind Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, for alleged unlawful entry.

Matthew Beddingfield, of North Carolina, was first identified by online sleuths two months after the Jan. 6 attack.

A Florida man photographed carrying a lectern belonging to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office at the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection has pleaded guilty for his part in the riot

An independent review has concluded that the Defense Department and its top leaders acted appropriately before and during the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Former President Donald Trump wants a federal judge in Florida to force Twitter to restore his account, which the company suspended in January following the deadly storming of the U.S. Capitol

Two friends from Ohio have been sentenced to 45 days in jail for storming the U.S. Capitol together in January.

A House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has subpoenaed four advisers and associates to former President Donald Trump who were in contact with him as hundreds of his followers violently broke into the building and tried to overturn his defeat.

The fence around the Capitol is back up. The D.C. police department is at the ready, and U.S. Capitol Police have requested assistance from nearby law enforcement agencies.

The founder and administrator of an obscure website about underground infrastructure in Washington, D.C., saw a sudden and suspicious spike in traffic in the days before the U.S. Capitol insurrection.

The eviction moratorium, which was first set up in September 2020, is set to expire on Saturday.

An Alabama man who stormed the U.S. Capitol with other members of the Oath Keepers extremist group has pleaded guilty to conspiracy and is cooperating with prosecutors in another major boost for the Justice Department in its sweeping Jan. 6 investigation

The House voted Tuesday to approve a bill that would remove from the Capitol a bust of Roger Taney, the U.S. chief justice best known for an infamous Dred Scott decision, as well as statues of Jefferson Davis and others who served in the Confederacy. There has been an ongoing push to also change the name of Taney Street in...

Federal agents have charged a Maine man for taking part in the January storming of the U.S. Capitol. Thirty-four-year-old Nicholas Patrick Hendrix, of Gorham, is at least the third person with a Maine connection to face federal charges stemming from the Jan. 6 riot. A federal affidavit states that Hendrix faces four charges in U.S. District Court, including violent...

National Guard troops are set to leave the U.S. Capitol and turn over security of the area to Capitol Police

The U.S. House on Wednesday voted 252-175 to create an independent bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Officer William “Billy” Evans, who was killed in a car-ramming attack outside the Capitol, is just the fourth officer ever to lie in honor at the Capitol Rotunda.

The board that oversees the U.S. Capitol Police is beginning a search for a permanent police chief, a person familiar with the matter said, as the fallout from the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol continues.

Multiple Michigan National Guard members stationed at the U.S. Capitol were sickened after they were served food that was raw, moldy, undercooked and even filled with metal shavings, the state’s congressional delegation said in a letter.  Guard members who have served at the Capitol for weeks in the wake of the Jan. 6 riot recently reported being served meals...

A Dallas area native and actor who allegedly used a crutch to assault police officers while storming the U.S. Capitol last month is set to appear in court on Friday, the FBI says.

The end of Donald Trump’s impeachment trial is only the beginning of Congress’ reckoning with the riot of Jan. 6.