Capitol Riot

Senate Republicans on Friday blocked a House-passed bill to create a bipartisan commission to study the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The Senate vote was 54-35 — short of the 60 votes needed to consider the bill.

Should the bill fail in the Senate, it will likely reignite the debate on the fate of the filibuster.

More than 2,000 National Guard troops called in to secure the nation's capital after the January 6th attack are headed home.

Christopher Grider said he came to Washington on Jan. 6 with no intention of rioting. But he got caught up in the mob of angry supporters of then-President Donald Trump as they surged into the U.S. Capitol, breaking through police barriers and smashing through doors.

James Breheny, 61, allegedly served as the Bergen County Coordinator for the New Jersey Oath Keepers chapter, according to the U.S. attorney’s office for the District of Columbia.

The House on Thursday narrowly approved $1.9 billion to bolster security at the Capitol after the Jan. 6 insurrection, as Democrats pushed past Republican opposition to harden the complex with retractable fencing and a quick-response force following the most violent domestic attack on Congress in history.

The House voted Wednesday to create an independent commission on the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol

The two suspects are wanted for violent assaults on federal law enforcement officers, according to the FBI.

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy said he won’t support the proposal, almost certainly eroding GOP support ahead of a vote and positioning his party as opposed to investigations of the attack.

Democrats say the bill will be crucial to try to reconcile the trauma that many still feel after the Capitol siege. U.S. Capitol Police also say threats to members of Congress have more than doubled this year.

An active-duty Marine officer was arrested at Quantico on Thursday on charges connected to the Capitol riot.

Two senior Trump administration officials defended their responses to the Capitol riot chaos in a congressional hearing Wednesday that soon devolved into partisan bickering about how that day unfolded.

President Donald Trump's acting defense secretary during the Jan. 6 Capitol riots is defending his response to the attack.

Some rioters say officers welcomed them into the Capitol, even though they walked past discarded police barriers into a building where windows were broken and chemical irritants were in the air.

A comment by a New Jersey man's mother may have led to his arrest for allegedly participating in the Jan. 6 breach of the Capitol.

The lawyer for the family of Ashli Babbitt is planning to sue the U.S. Capitol Police and the unidentified officer who fatally shot her during the Jan. 6 riot in which she was killed. 

After a weeklong trial, a New York man was found guilty and could face up to 10 years in prison for threatening to kill members of Congress in the wake of the pro-Trump Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.