Capitol Riot

Rep. Liz Cheney (R., Wyo.) and Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R., Ill.) listen during a hearing on the Jan. 6 riot on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., July 27, 2021. (Andrew Harnik/Reuters) The House select committee probing the January 6…

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks about the formation of a select committee to investigate the January 6 Capitol riot a news conference in Washington, D.C., July 1, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) House minority leader…

Police clear the U.S. Capitol with tear gas in Washington, D.C. January 6, 2021. (Stephanie Keith/Reuters) Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt claimed on Wednesday that the Capitol riot is a more dangerous event for the future of…

Ashli Babbitt’s family is suing the U.S. Capitol Police for more than $10 million for shooting and killing her during the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. “Right now, we have no accountability — zero accountability — they give no…

Police clear the U.S. Capitol building with tear gas as protesters gather outside in Washington, D.C., January 6, 2021. (Stephanie Keith/Reuters) The House of Representatives voted 252-175 Wednesday to establish an independent…

President Joe Biden claimed during his first State of the Union address that the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was “the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.” Moments after the transcript of the speech’s opening went public before the…

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., March 1, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) The Department of Homeland Security on Monday launched an…

MSNBC’s Brian Williams used the disproven Russian collusion hoax to smear Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin as a “rare conspiracy theorist” after the senator on Wednesday during a Senate hearing reported facts contrary to the corporate media…

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s speech Saturday explaining his impeachment acquittal vote was, as my colleague Chris Bedford explains nearby, a disgraceful betrayal of the Republican voter base and a cri de cœur that the GOP return…

Donald Trump’s legal team issued a brief on Monday asserting that the sole article of impeachment, which seeks to indict the former president on grounds that he incited the deadly mob riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, is flawed and is not…