Capitol Riot

President Donald Trump said he intended to fire some of the FBI personnel who worked on Capitol riot cases, asserting without providing evidence that some of them were “corrupt.”

A top Justice Department official accused the FBI’s acting leaders of “insubordination” in a Wednesday memo in which he sought to soothe anxiety inside the bureau over the potential for a broad purge of agents involved in investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Two lawsuits filed Tuesday on behalf of anonymous agents demand an immediate halt to the collection and potential dissemination of names of investigators who participated in probes of the Jan. 6, 2021 riot

Thousands of FBI employees who participated in investigations related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol are being asked to complete in-depth questionnaires about their involvement in the inquiries.

A Texas man released from prison under President Donald Trump’s sweeping pardons over the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is wanted by authorities on a 2016 charge of soliciting a minor online, prosecutors say.

A northwest Indiana man was shot and killed by a police officer during a traffic stop days after he was pardoned by President Donald Trump for a misdemeanor related to the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot.

The DOJ employees had been involved in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation that led to Trump’s classified documents and Jan. 6 cases.

A federal judge has barred Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes from entering Washington without the court’s approval. This comes after President Donald Trump commuted the extremist group leader’s 18-year prison sentence in the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol attack. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta issued the order two days after Rhodes visited Capitol Hill, where the Texas resident met with at...

Guy Reffitt, sentenced to 7.5 years in federal prison after being convicted of crimes related to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, talks about his pardon after being released from jail and the damage done to his family.

Another North Texan is now out of federal prison, after serving time for storming the U.S. Capitol on January 6. This comes after President Trump granted clemency to 1,500 supporters who protested the 2020 election results. Sophia Beausoleil is in the newsroom with more.

President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon virtually every person charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol was made at the last minute as the inauguration approached — and it surprised some of his supporters and aides. 

Waves of people imprisoned for crimes at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, were released from D.C.’s jail to cheers late Tuesday after President Donald Trump pardoned them on his first day back in office.

Trump issued “a full, complete and unconditional pardon” to people punished for their involvement in the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, including those who assaulted law enforcement officers.

“The fact that I have to do this, to try to afford my family some degree of protection, is outrageous,” Fanone said. “But we are in an age of government lawlessness.”

Some Republicans on Capitol Hill were particularly critical of the pardons for those convicted of assaulting police officers, while others declined to defend Trump’s move.

Rhodes spoke with WRC, the NBC station in Washington, D.C., Tuesday outside the D.C. Central Detention Facility, less than a day after he was released. Rhodes told WRC Trump, “did the right thing” in pardoning the Jan. 6 defendants, calling the day “a good day for America.”

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and have been released from prison after their lengthy sentences for seditious conspiracy convictions in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol were wiped away by a sweeping order from President Donald Trump benefitting more than 1,500 defendants.

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes released from prison after his lengthy sentence for seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack was wiped away by President Donald Trump.

The newly freed founder of the anti-government group the Oath Keepers stood outside the D.C. jail early Tuesday, awaiting the release of Jan. 6 defendants after President Donald Trump issued sweeping pardons, including of people convicted of brutal assaults on officers at the U.S. Capitol.

Enrique Tarrio, the former Proud Boys chairman from Miami who was serving 22 years in federal prison after he was convicted of seditious conspiracy in relation to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, was among the defendants in the riot who had their sentences pardoned or commuted by President Donald Trump on Monday.