5 takeaways from the Jan. 6 report
The House Jan. 6 committee released its final report on the “unimaginable” 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, a mob assault by supporters of the defeated president, Donald Trump, that shook the nation and exposed the fragility of American democracy.
The 814-page account provides a gripping narrative of Trump's monthslong effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election, and spells out 11 recommendations for Congress and others to consider to bolster the nation's institutions against any future attempts to incite insurrection. Here are the takeaways:
The 814-page account provides a gripping narrative of Donald Trump's monthslong effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election, and spells out 11 recommendations.
A Fulton County, Georgia, special grand jury is expected to soon issue a final report detailing its findings on whether former President Donald Trump or his allies broke any state laws as they sought to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results.
Sen. Patrick Leahy is wrapping up a 48-year career representing Vermont. The longest-serving Senate Democrat tells The Associated Press that he’s leaving with a mixture of resignation and resolve.
Just days before it disbands and loses control over the millions of pages of evidence it has gathered, the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection has released transcripts of just a fraction of the more than 1,000 interviews it conducted.
Donald Trump began 2022 on a high. But the former president is facing a very different reality one year later as he runs again for the White House. He’s mired in criminal investigations. He’s been blamed for Republicans’ disappointing performance in the November elections. And the six weeks since his presidential announcement have been marked by self-inflicted crises.
Both political parties are opening the new year confronting critical questions about the people and policies they want to embrace as the next election speeds into view.
WASHINGTON — As members of the Proud Boys extremist group stormed past police lines and swarmed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, their leader cheered them on from afar, prosecutors say. "Do what must be done," Enrique Tarrio wrote on social media. "So what do we do now?" someone asked later that day in a Proud Boys encrypted group chat.
Washington has one specialty that has long endured — memorializing and coming together over a national trauma. But that unifying impulse has faded. On Friday's second anniversary of the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, a moment of silence drew mostly Democrats.
The decision by Facebook's parent company to soon reinstate Donald Trump's account comes at a critical moment for the former president as he tries to build campaign momentum for a return to the White House.
A series of Jan. 6 defendants who — when up against possible prison time in court — expressed regret for joining the pro-Trump mob, struck a different tone or downplayed the riot after receiving their punishment.
The seditious conspiracy trial of five Proud Boys leaders charged in the Capitol riot has been going on for a month now in federal court in Washington, and bickering between lawyers and the judge has bogged things down.
Two years after former President Donald Trump's false claims about widespread election fraud sparked an attack on the U.S. Capitol, more evidence is piling up that those who spread the misinformation knew it was false.
A federal court case is testing Trump's legal vulnerability for his speech before the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy granted Carlson access to more than 40,000 hours of the Capitol security footage from Jan. 6. McCarthy's office said it is still working out the process to make the footage "more widely available" but did not comment further.
A defamation lawsuit is revealing scornful behind-the-scenes opinions by Fox News figures about Donald Trump.
The remarks were the sharpest condemnation yet from the once-loyal Trump lieutenant.
One of the House Jan. 6 committee's most effective tools was its use of larger-than-life videos of its depositions. Congressional experts expect the work of that panel will change the dynamics of congressional committees this year and beyond.
Investigators found no wrongdoing from two election workers whose lives were upended when Trump falsely accused them of fraud.
The group includes Republican National Committeewoman Kathy Berden and Meshawn Maddock, former co-chair of the Michigan Republican Party.
District of Columbia Officer Michael Fanone and the others who responded to the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, held the line in more ways than one. Sometimes that line can be convoluted and complicated and sometimes it is pretty straightforward.