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Capitol Riot Hearings

Jan. 6 panel releases video of Capitol tour before attack

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection released video on Wednesday of a tour led by a Republican lawmaker the day before the attack, showing participants taking photos of stairwells and tunnels in the Capitol complex. The panel released the video ...

1/6 panel probes Trump pressure on Pence to reject election

WASHINGTON (AP) — The 1/6 committee is set to plunge into Donald Trump's last-ditch effort to salvage the 2020 election by pressuring Vice President Mike Pence to reject the electoral count — a highly unusual and potentially illegal strategy that was set in motion in the run-up to the U.S. ...

NBA Finals, Jan. 6 hearing lead ABC to ratings win

NEW YORK (AP) — ABC was the top-rated television network last week largely behind the NBA Finals, and its news division won bragging rights for the first prime-time hearing of the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol. The 5.2 million people who ...

Ex-WVa councilman gets 45-day sentence in Capitol riot case

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A former city councilman in West Virginia was sentenced Tuesday to 45 days in prison for breaching the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot. Eric Barber was sentenced by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., for his December guilty plea to a misdemeanor count ...

Judge to decide trial for Confederate flag-toting dad, son

WASHINGTON (AP) — A man carrying a Confederate battle flag stormed the U.S. Capitol with his son because they intended to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden's 2020 electoral victory, prosecutors argued Tuesday at the close of the men's trial. A federal judge, not a jury, will ...

Jan. 6 hearings: What we’ve learned, and what’s next

WASHINGTON (AP) — House investigators are trying to make a methodical case that President Donald Trump's lies about the 2020 election led directly to his supporters' insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The House panel investigating the attack has held the first two in a series ...