The Latest Breaking News from Capitol

Partisan Politics Cloud the Capitol Riot's Significance

Neither Republicans nor Democrats can be trusted to give an honest account of what happened that day.

Reason · Feb 9, 2022

Kamala Harris’s husband Doug Emhoff evacuated from DC school over bomb threat – as it happened

Second gentleman escorted by security from Dunbar high school in Washington

The Guardian - US · Feb 8, 2022

Georgia Senate approves putting Clarence Thomas statue on Capitol grounds

ATLANTA — The Georgia Senate on Monday approved on a party-line vote a measure to place a monument honoring U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on the Capitol grounds.

Tribune News Service · Feb 7, 2022

Investigate Mike Pence, Trump demands

Donald Trump continues claims of a stolen election in 2020 and turns on former vice president Mike Pence

Salon · Feb 2, 2022

Congressman sues NC to stop inquiry into his role in Jan. 6 attack at Capitol

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn, whose eligibility to run for reelection to Congress is being formally challenged, has now begun his legal fight against that effort.

Tribune News Service · Feb 1, 2022

Russia is the ‘aggressor’, says White House, but Biden open to more talks with Putin – as it happened

White House dismisses Putin’s criticism of US and allies while Blinken urges Russia to pursue diplomatic path in Ukraine

The Guardian - US · Feb 1, 2022

Trump tore up records turned over to House Capitol attack committee

National Archives says it received ripped-up documents from White House before turning them over to Congress

The Guardian - US · Feb 1, 2022

Dignity in a Digital Age review: a congressman takes big tech to task

Ro Khanna represents Silicon Valley and the best of Capitol Hill and wants to help. His aims are ambitious, his book necessary

The Guardian - US · Jan 30, 2022

Jan. 6 panel subpoenas 14 people allegedly involved in false elector scam

WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Capitol riot sent subpoenas to a group of people from seven states Joe Biden won in the 2020 presidential election who allegedly submitted fake slates of Electoral College votes for Donald Trump.

Tribune News Service · Jan 28, 2022

Jan. 6 committee subpoenas fake Trump electors in 7 states

The House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection has subpoenaed more than a dozen individuals which it says falsely tried to declare Donald Trump the winner of the 2020 election

The Independent UK · Jan 28, 2022