Riots

The NAACP filed a lawsuit Tuesday against former President Trump and far-right extremist groups in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol riots that killed five people and injured dozens of officers. Why it matters: The federal lawsuit filed on behalf of House Homeland Security Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) shows that…

Mark LoMoglio/Associated Press Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Bruce Arians gave his thoughts Monday on why quarterback Tom Brady decided to leave the New England Patriots after two decades and sign with the Bucs.  In an interview with Pro Football Hall of Fame linebacker Ray Lewis on Showtime (h/t joebucsfan,…

Washington: US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has proposed a 9/11-type independent commission to investigate the storming of the Capitol by supporters of former president Donald Trump on January 6, which is seen as one of the darkest days in the history of America's democracy. Pelosi said this in…

(CNN)The FBI is investigating some of his followers. Others are already in custody and facing decades in prison if convicted of federal charges connected to the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol. But the national leader of the extremist Oath Keepers group is carrying on as before. He might even be emboldened. "You gotta…

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) attends her weekly news conference at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., January 15, 2021. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) House Republicans on Monday called for Speaker Nancy Pelosi to answer “many important questions” about her “responsibility for the security” of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, when…

By a vote of 57-43, with no two-thirds majority, the Senate acquitted the former president for the January 6 violence at the US Capitol The vote highlights Trump’s continued grip on the Republican Party, even after he left office under the cloud of the insurrection claims Published: 5:18am, 14 Feb,…

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — The FBI on Friday arrested two more Missourians in relation to the January riots at the U.S. Capitol. Springfield residents Michael Aaron Quick and Stephen Brian Quick turned themselves in to the FBI, according to a release from the agency. They both were charged with committing…

SEATTLE (AP) — Jaime Herrera Beutler has spent a decade in Congress as a low-key moderate Republican who largely avoided heated partisan battles. That changed with Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial. The Washington state congresswoman was at the center of a debate Saturday in the Senate over whether the former…

House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy and former President Donald Trump got into an expletive-laden argument on a phone call as the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was still unfolding, three sources briefed on the matter told NBC News on Friday. As throngs of pro-Trump supporters stormed the Capitol during the certification…

Courtney Subramanian   | USA TODAY WASHINGTON – House impeachment managers on Thursday argued former President Donald Trump's actions not only fueled the violent assault on the Capitol in the months leading up to the Jan. 6 attack, but that he stood by as the riot raged and showed no remorse in aftermath, which left five…