The Democratic chairman of the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol said Thursday that the panel will present witnesses describing conversations between extremist groups and members of former President Donald Trump's orbit.
Caroline Edwards, a US Capitol Police officer assigned to the first responder unit on January 6, 2021, testified Thursday night about the attacks she endured during the insurrection.
Former President Donald Trump had a "sophisticated seven-point plan" to overturn the 2020 presidential election over the course of several months, January 6 committee Vice Chair Liz Cheney said, detailing how the panel plans to use its future hearings to tackle each part of the scheme.
Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott dropped his proposal requiring low-income Americans to pay at least some federal income tax in his revised agenda for the country, after facing withering criticism from fellow Republicans in Washington, President Joe Biden and Democrats.
GOP Michigan gubernatorial candidate Ryan Kelley was arrested Thursday morning on misdemeanor charges related to his involvement in the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, according to the Justice Department.
President Joe Biden's nominee to lead a key agency regulating firearms appears to have enough votes to win confirmation, overcoming nearly a decade of opposition from gun-rights groups who have derailed past attempts to approve a director for the post.
The House will consider a Senate-passed bill to enhance security for Supreme Court justices and their families next week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday, after a man was arrested near Justice Brett Kavanaugh's home.
President Joe Biden on Thursday repeatedly emphasized that he believes the future of the Western Hemisphere should be a democratic one -- a message sent both to the private sector and to leaders from the region during his second day on the West Coast for the Summit of the Americas.
Betsy DeVos, who served as former President Donald Trump's secretary of education, is acknowledging publicly for the first time that she discussed the possibility of invoking the 25th Amendment with other Cabinet members and then-Vice President Mike Pence following the January 6 US Capitol attack.
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection of the US Capitol is holding the first of several public hearings. Watch and follow live news updates here.
The White House issued a new warning to Congress Wednesday on the continued urgent need for Covid-19 funding, highlighting new "unacceptable tradeoffs" as it reallocates and reprioritizes remaining funding toward new vaccines in the absence of congressional action.
Republican candidate Mehmet Oz is being criticized on social media with a false claim that he is not registered to vote in Pennsylvania, the state he is running to represent in the US Senate.
Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut, the lead Democrat in the bipartisan negotiations on gun safety reform, told CNN he believes there will be more than 10 Republicans supporting gun safety reform in the Senate but a top Republican negotiator says no deal will come this week.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and his deputy Gabe Sterling, who were both subpoenaed by the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection, are expected to testify at a hearing later this month, according to a person familiar with the situation.
President Joe Biden on Wednesday said he was weighing executive actions he could take if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade's holding of a federal constitutional right to an abortion.
The House select committee investigating January 6 will use its first prime-time public hearing on Thursday to make the case that former President Donald Trump was at the center of a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election and prevent the transition of power, according to the committee.
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