Category: Politics

The week saw the election of Georgia’s first Black senator and the fallout from a pro-Trump riot.

Trump and some Republicans seek to head off Democratic impeachment efforts, but have proposed no other inquiry or punishments.

During the rampage, rioters came perilously close to penetrating the inner sanctums of the building while lawmakers were still there.

For years, Democrats and some Republicans have sounded alarms about Trump’s toxic brand of politics. Last week, their fearful predictions came to pass.

In the wake of the mob attack on the Capitol that he incited, Trump is now destined to slink out of the White House diminished and increasingly isolated.

“No question in my mind that [Trump] was responsible for inciting this riotous mob,” Hogan tells CNN.

The comments from the No. 3 House Democrat come amid tensions in the Democratic Party over whether to press ahead with action to hold the president accountable for last week’s deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Members of Congress fled chambers and several hid in rooms together as a pro-Trump mob attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Assistant Chief Yogananda D. Pittman is now acting chief of the beleagured police agency.

The GOP’s twin defeats in the crucial Senate runoffs were a prelude to a deadly week in Washington in which the president’s claims incited a mob to attack the U.S. Capitol.

Eric Munchel, of Tennessee, and Larry Brock, of Texas, are charged with entering restricted grounds and violent entry. They were arrested Sunday.

Custodians cleaned up what they broke. Historians picked up what they brought.