Capitol Riot

President Donald Trump is claiming that Joe Biden’s pardons for members of the House Jan. 6 committee are invalid because Biden didn’t use a real pen.

President Donald Trump said he intended to fire some of the FBI personnel who worked on Capitol riot cases, asserting without providing evidence that some of them were “corrupt.”

A top Justice Department official accused the FBI’s acting leaders of “insubordination” in a Wednesday memo in which he sought to soothe anxiety inside the bureau over the potential for a broad purge of agents involved in investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Two lawsuits filed Tuesday on behalf of anonymous agents demand an immediate halt to the collection and potential dissemination of names of investigators who participated in probes of the Jan. 6, 2021 riot

Thousands of FBI employees who participated in investigations related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol are being asked to complete in-depth questionnaires about their involvement in the inquiries.

The top federal prosecutor for Washington, D.C., is a conservative activist who promoted Donald Trump’s conspiracy theories about a stolen election.

Pardoning more than 1,500 people did not end a review of Jan. 6 prosecutions. The News4 I-Team’s Ted Oberg reports the interim U.S. attorney for D.C. is starting a “special project” to investigate how hundreds of J6 defendants were charged with obstruction of an official proceeding.

D.C.’s mayor publicly denounced the pardons of Jan. 6 Capitol riot defendants Monday. Mayor Muriel Bowser repeated what she said last week in a written statement — that the officers who responded to the riot are heroes — before addressing the pardons by President Donald Trump. “We know the vast presidential power when it comes to pardons, and the president…

A northwest Indiana man was shot and killed by a police officer during a traffic stop days after he was pardoned by President Donald Trump for a misdemeanor related to the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot.

D.C.’s mayor publicly denounced the pardons of Jan. 6 Capitol riot defendants Monday. News4’s Mark Segraves reports.

The DOJ employees had been involved in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation that led to Trump’s classified documents and Jan. 6 cases.

President Donald Trump’s pardons of the Jan. 6 defendants and two D.C. police officers convicted in the death of Karon Hylton-Brown have many people asking questions about the president’s pardon power. A law professor who specializes in pardons explains the president’s unique power to intervene in local D.C. criminal prosecutions. In his first hours back in office, Trump issued...

The president has power to pardon people convicted in D.C. courts — authority he doesn’t have over state courts. News4’s Mark Segraves explains.

A federal judge has barred Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes from entering Washington without the court’s approval. This comes after President Donald Trump commuted the extremist group leader’s 18-year prison sentence in the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol attack. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta issued the order two days after Rhodes visited Capitol Hill, where the Texas resident met with at...

There’s no doubt among experts that we are seeing the reemergence of some extremist groups involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. News4 I-Team reporter Ted Oberg has this 4 More Context explanation.

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, who was convicted of orchestrating his far-right extremist group’s Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol, showed up Wednesday on Capitol Hill.

Many Jan. 6 defendants who were released are holding firm they were unfairly treated, as FBI websites that detailed the investigation are now gone, including photos of suspects who were still wanted.

The hugs and tearful video calls seen outside the D.C. jail after Jan. 6 inmates were pardoned and released are what you might expect when someone gets out of jail. Denials and defiance made these moments so different. News4’s Ted Oberg reports.

President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon virtually every person charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol was made at the last minute as the inauguration approached — and it surprised some of his supporters and aides. 

News4 video shows Capitol riot defendants’ celebrations after they were released from the D.C. jail. Their release comes as the D.C. police union and others condemned President Donald Trump’s pardons. News4’s Ted Oberg reports live outside the jail.