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Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH), along with others, was arrested in the Hart Senate Office Building by Capitol Police on Thursday after she led a protest into the building.

The embattled Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) has used campaign funds to hire private security after receiving death threats, according to reports.

In his Monday interview with NBC News, Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the U.S. government of assassinating Ashli Babbitt, the Air Force veteran whom Capitol Police shot during the January 6 riot.

On Monday’s broadcast of FNC’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Terrell Roberts, an attorney for the family of Ashli Babbitt, the woman who was shot and killed by a police officer during the January 6 U.S. Capitol Riot, said he believed he now knows the identity of the officer responsible for the shooting.

Nancy Pelosi wants to set up a commission to continue the politicization of events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, saying that those who oppose her “are afraid of the truth.”

An anonymous letter circulating on official House email accounts that originated with Rep. Jamie Raskin’s (D-MD) office claims U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) officers are upset with Republican leaders over their opposition to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) January 6 Commission.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is hosting a bike tour Thursday morning with Capitol Police officers and other members of Congress in honor of National Police Week.

MSNBC contributor Neal Katyal said Wednesday on “Deadline” that former President Donald Trump is in “serious trouble” with the new lawsuit brought by two U.S. Capitol Police officers for emotional injuries they suffered in the Capitol riots on January 6.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s task force to review and make immediate recommendations to bolster the Capitol building’s security after the January 6 breach included two retired generals who expressed anti-Trump or pro-Black Lives Matters views.

The National Guard Bureau Chief reportedly opposed keeping National Guard troops at the Capitol but was overridden by Defense Secretary Austin.

The Pentagon Tuesday evening announced Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s approval of a request by U.S. Capitol Police for a two-month extension of National Guard troops through May 23.

A task force appointed by Pelosi is recommending a dedicated “Quick Reaction Force” to be on permanent standby to protect the Capitol.

Rep. Al Green (D-TX) on Thursday took a photo taken of himself sitting on the Capitol’s steps and distributed it to news media to send a message he would stand up to the “right-wing extremists” who he believed would attempt to breach the Capitol that day.

Lawmakers are demanding to know why the Capitol Police is now requesting that the approximately 5,000 National Guard troops remain in the nation’s capital for another two months.

The Capitol Police asked that the National Guard remain at the Capitol for two more months on Thursday, reflecting continued security concerns, according to a report. 

Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund testified Tuesday at a Senate hearing that he did not believe officers were “complicit” in the January 6 riot, as charged by Retired Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré.

Witnesses at the first major congressional hearing on the Capitol riot testified that they did not expect the building to be targeted by violence — directly contradicting what Democrats told the Senate impeachment trial earlier this month.

As we might expect of an agency overseen by four Congressional committees, the U.S. Capitol Police is not a model of transparency or accountability.

Capitol Police officials told congressional leaders that the razor wire topped fencing around the building should remain until September.

National Guard members might still be deployed to the nation’s capital through the fall of 2021, according to a recent report.

The House impeachment managers left out three elements that observers had expected: evidence of incitement, evidence of cooperation with rioters by Republicans, and evidence of racism in the Capitol Police.

Mark Theissen writes in the Washington Post about the heroic efforts of the Capitol Police during the January 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol and calls on President Biden to apologize for maligning them.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-FL) tweeted earlier this week that members of the National Guard are still having to take their breaks in a parking garage, and asked why House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is allowing it.

The Pentagon revealed the cost of having thousands of National Guard members in the nation’s capital is an estimated $483 million.

Nancy Pelosi violated her own rule requiring representatives to go through metal detectors to enter the House, said Rep. Rodney Davis (R-IL).

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) is defending herself after she contradicted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and stated “no insurrectionists stormed our hallway” in the Cannon office building after the New York Congresswoman was challenged by some conservative media outlets over her claims regarding the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on Monday that she is a sexual assault survivor and that the Capitol attack further traumatized her.

On Friday’s “CNN Tonight,” House Majority Chief Deputy Whip Dan Kildee (D-MI) said that if the Capitol rioters were black or Muslim, “we know what the instinct would have been for people in law enforcement, that would have been to

DHS released a bulletin from the acting secretary warning of a “heightened threat environment” in the weeks after the inauguration.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) penned an op-ed for Fox News on Wednesday that called for the removal of National Guard troops from Washington, DC, following the presidential inauguration of Joe Biden.

The military chief of the National Guard said Monday that 5,000 National Guard troops will remain in Washington, D.C., at the request of the U.S. Capitol Police.

‘Atlantic’ writer and former ESPN talker Jemele Hill wants her fans to understand that “white power isn’t taking a break” in America.

The U.S. Capitol complex went into a temporary lockdown Monday morning because of what was initially described as an external threat and later identified as a fire at what appeared to be a homeless camp.

An essay published on Wednesday in the Nation calls for Kamala Harris to avoid attending the presidential inauguration on January 20 so as to spare her life in the event of an “armed attack by a rabble of white people” aided by law enforcement compromised by “Trump sympathizers” and “white supremacists” within their ranks.

McCarthy has authorized the arming of National Guardsmen in support of the U.S. Capitol Police, the D.C. National Guard announced Wednesday.

On Saturday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s News HQ,” acting Deputy DHS Secretary Ken Cuccinelli said that Capitol Police should have asked for support sooner than they did and they are the only law enforcement entity responsible for