Politics

ABC News (NEW YORK) — One of two Republicans on the House’s Jan. 6 committee said Sunday he believes former President Donald Trump’s actions as described during this month’s public hearings “rise to a level of criminal involvement” in the events around the U.S. Capitol attack. When asked by anchor George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This […]

Michael Dunning/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Texas Republican Party this weekend formally “rebuked” multiple GOP senators, including one of their own, for helping lead bipartisan negotiations on new gun legislation. The resolution, adopted at the state’s convention on Saturday in Houston, dismissed the Senate compromise announced last week that had the filibuster-proof support of […]

The White House (WASHINGTON) — New photos obtained exclusively by ABC News show former Vice President Mike Pence and his family in hiding after rioters broke into the Capitol and he was evacuated from the Senate floor. ABC News is publishing the images for the first time on the eve of the House Jan. 6 […]

Win McNamee/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — The California man arrested last week near Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home has been indicted on a charge of attempted assassination. The federal grand jury on Wednesday formally accused 26-year-old Nicholas Roske, of Simi Valley, of attempting to kill Kavanaugh. According to the indictment, prosecutors will also seek […]

Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House Jan. 6 select committee on Wednesday released video footage of GOP Rep. Barry Loudermilk leading constituents on a tour around the Capitol complex on Jan. 5 — that included a nearby office building but not the Capitol itself — and it claimed that one […]

Megan Varner/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Georgia Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker this week acknowledged he has three more children in addition to the son, Christian, he has publicly helped raise for the last 20 years. Walker’s statements on the matter, issued via his campaign, come after a series of reports in The Daily Beast about […]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Chairman Bennie Thompson told reporters Thursday that the Jan. 6 committee will “soon” invite Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and an avid Trump supporter, to speak with the panel. “We think it’s time that we would, at some point, invite her to come talk to the […]

MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Jan. 6 committee is holding its third public hearing of the month Thursday with the focus on the pressure campaign on then-Vice President Mike Pence. The committee says it will detail efforts from then-President Donald Trump and his allies before and on Jan. 6 to get Pence […]

White House (WASHINGTON) — In its third hearing Thursday, the House select committee investigating the Capitol attack outlined former President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign against then-Vice President Mike Pence — and demonstrated just how close he came to danger in the Capitol on Jan. 6. The committee detailed what it calls just one part in […]

Ty O’Neil/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As the Jan. 6 committee continues to lay out its evidence surrounding the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election, a federal judge on Thursday ruled that a defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion — a voting machine company at the heart of a number of “Big Lie” […]