The Latest Breaking News from Bennie Thompson

The committee’s tightly scripted production has impressed political junkies but Democrats worry many Americans are focused elsewhere

‘The public needs to know what to think. We just have to show clearly what happened on January 6,’ chairman Bennie Thompson says

WASHINGTON — Evidence. The word was uttered 41 times Monday during the Jan. 6 select committee’s second much-anticipated June hearing and over and over by its members during a weeklong cable TV blitz.

The House Jan. 6 committee had an unnecessary public spat over whether to make criminal referrals to DOJ. It doesn't have to.

If the vice-president had acquiesced to Trump’s demand, the country could have plunged into an unprecedented crisis

Attorneys general say material is needed for criminal cases but congressional inquiry says it must be left to do its work

The former VP rejected the plot to overturn the election – the death knell for Trump and Pence’s marriage of convenience

The Jan. 6 committee plans to ask Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, to testify after emails surfaced connecting her to pro-Trump legal guru John Eastman.

The committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riots hears Donald Trump’s closest advisers labelled his efforts to pressure vice-president Mike Pence to reject the election result as "nuts" and "crazy".

WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol received a formal request by the Department of Justice to share copies of its witness interviews, which the committee will do "in due time," chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said Thursday.

Over the course of nearly three hours, the public repeatedly heard that Mike Pence lacked the authority to overturn the outcome of the 2020 election