Capitol Hill Police Chief, Chief Steven Sund, will be resigning effective January 16, a spokeswoman for Sund said Thursday, NBC News reports.
One of the rioters who was part of the siege of the Capitol building on Wednesday has been identified as John Earle Sullivan, a Black Lives Matter activist from Sandy, Utah.
Publisher Simon & Schuster decided to cancel the publication of Senator Josh Hawley's new book, "The Tyranny of Big Tech," due to his role in challenging the 2020 election results and allegedly inciting the actions taken by Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol building Wednesday.
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany held a press briefing to address the events that occurred on Capitol Hill Wednesday, where Pro-Trump protesters sieged the Capitol Building and broke inside, clashing with law enforcement.
DC’s Metropolitan Police have released dozens of photos of protesters who stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday, and are asking for the public’s help in identifying them.
Former First Lady Michelle Obama released a statement talking about Wednesday's breach of security at the US Capitol building in which she called for Trump to be banned from social media for life.
Two people arrested on Wednesday night in connection with the storming of the Capitol building yesterday are facing federal charges for their crimes.
The president of Chicago’s Fraternal Order of Police, is defending the protesters who stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday and laying the blame squarely on the media for ignoring the riots across the country last summer.
"We witnessed two systems of justice when we saw one that let extremists storm the United States Capitol, and another that released tear gas on peaceful protesters last summer," Harris said.
Representatives Andy Harris and Colin Allred, a Republican and a Democrat respectively, reportedly almost got into a physical confrontation on Thursday morning on the House floor.
Prominent conservative and high-profile Parler investor Dan Bongino was locked out of his Twitter account for 12 hours after he posted President Donald Trump's call to end violence in the Capitol speech. This is the final straw for Bongino to leave the left-aligned platform for Parler permanently.
"This is a moment for the nation to show will and determination," he said, and "anarchy does not reign." Graham said that there was no validity to the claims of election fraud, per the lower court rulings.
Northern Ontario schools will also remain shut down for another two weeks.
The Capitol building has its own independent police, consisting of over 2000 well-armed and well-trained members. However, protestors on Wednesday broke in without much effort.
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor killed 2,335 military personnel and 68 civilians, with 1,177 people wounded.