Topline A former Virginia police officer was sentenced Thursday to more than seven years in federal prison for his role in the January 6 riot, tying for the most severe sentence for a Capitol riot-rel...
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Jan. 6 Lawmaker Claims Trump’s Family Benefitted From Voter Fraud Fundraising.
Topline Former President Donald Trump’s advisor Kimberly Guilfoyle—also the fiancée of his son, Donald Trump Jr.—was paid $60,000 for a brief speech at a Trump rally on the morning of January 6, 2021,...
Trump-Backed Senate Candidate Blake Masters Baselessly Suggests Jan. 6 Rioters Were FBI Agents, Report Says
Topline Blake Masters—a controversial Trump-endorsed candidate in Arizona’s GOP Senate primary—suggested in March that many people at the January 6 Capitol riot may have worked for the FBI, according ...
Ex-Proud Boys Leader Indicted For Seditious Conspiracy In Sweeping Jan. 6 Case
Topline Five alleged members of the Proud Boys—including its ex-leader Enrique Tarrio—were indicted for seditious conspiracy Monday, according to the Department of Justice, marking the second far-righ...
Jan. 6 Defendant Becomes First Known Rioter To Speak With Committee Investigators
Topline A New York man who pleaded guilty to 10 charges related to the January 6 attack on the Capitol has testified before the congressional committee investigating the riot, according to court filin...
Former Police Officer Found Guilty In Capitol Riot Trial
Topline A federal jury on Monday convicted an ex-police officer who was charged with storming the Capitol with a wooden stick on January 6, 2021—the second Capitol riot defendant to be found guilty at...
Jan. 6 Committee Has Enough Evidence For Trump Criminal Referral, Cheney Says—But Some Lawmakers Are Reportedly Skeptical
Topline The House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol riot has enough evidence to refer former President Donald Trump to the Justice Department for criminal charges, vice-chair Rep. Liz Cheney (R...
Proud Boys Head Detained Pending Trial Over Capitol Riot
Topline A federal judge in Miami ordered that Enrique Tarrio, a former leader of the far-right Proud Boys, be held in jail without bail while he awaits trial on charges related to the January 6 Capito...
Oath Keepers Leader Denied Bail Following Capitol Riot Sedition Charge
Topline Stewart Rhodes—leader of the Oath Keepers militia group—will remain in jail ahead of a trial on seditious conspiracy charges related to the January 6 Capitol riot, after a Texas federal judge ...
Capitol Riot Committee Subpoenas Staffer Who Allegedly Helped Draft Trump’s Jan. 6 ‘Stop The Steal’ Speech
Topline The House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol riot issued three more subpoenas Tuesday, requesting documents and deposition from a Trump official who allegedly helped draft the former pre...
Federal Judge Says Capitol Riot Defendant Can’t Travel To Jamaica While Awaiting Trial
Topline A Michigan man accused of storming the U.S. Capitol building on January 6 cannot fly to Jamaica for 10 days later this month, a federal judge said in a scathing order Thursday, exactly one yea...
What We Know—And Still Don’t Know—About The DNC And RNC Pipe Bomb Planter One Year Later
Topline The night before the January 6 Capitol riot, surveillance cameras recorded footage of a person planting pipe bombs outside both the Democratic and Republican National Committee headquarters—a ...