The Latest Breaking News from Capitol

WASHINGTON — The Capitol Police department needs to better understand and address potential officer hesitancy to use force, the Government Accountability Office found in a report released Monday regarding steps the department should take to improve preparations for violent demonstrations like Jan. 6.

Federal prosecutors in Washington wrapped up the first criminal trial stemming from the Jan. 6 insurrection, urging a jury to convict Texas militia member Guy Reffitt on charges including obstruction of Congress and threatening his teenage children to keep them quiet.

The Government Accountability Office has found that Capitol Police operate under unclear use of force guidelines.

A self-styled militia member, the first Capitol rioter to face trial warned his family that ‘traitors get shot’

Federal prosecutors have finished presenting testimony against a Texas man who is the first person to be tried on charges related to the riot at the U.S. Capitol last year

Lawmakers draft legislation aiming to ‘stop Russia’s unconscionable and unjust war on Ukraine and hold Belarus accountable for its involvement’

WASHINGTON — The Capitol Police Board issued an emergency declaration Sunday in response to convoys of truck drivers who assembled around the capital region to protest the government response to COVID-19.

WASHINGTON — Lobbyists have a renewed plea to leaders in Congress: Let us roam the Capitol complex.

Ex-president said he would join crowd to US Capitol but his schedule indicates he deliberately lied to his supporters

An Idaho man who hit a police officer with a pipe while storming the U.S. Capitol last year has been sentenced to more than four years in federal prison

BOISE, Idaho — A Nampa man was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison Friday for assaulting police during the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot in Washington, D.C.