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Incoming members of Congress cheered and groaned Friday as they competed for prime office space at the Capitol.

Beneath the still-gleaming white dome, the Capitol’s new generation of promising leaders are jockeying for position, staking their turf, marking their hydrants, and swapping last-minute promises for next year’s power.

Republicans plan to hold hearings on Capitol security failures on Jan. 6.

“It was a graveyard before the union,” Malcom McCombs said as his Senate cafeteria colleagues nodded.

The seditious conspiracy convictions of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and another leader in the far-right extremist group show that jurors are willing to hold accountable not just the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, but those who schemed to subvert the 2020 election

Before she was sentenced Wednesday, Dawn Frankowski told the judge she got caught up in the moment but said, “I’m an adult. I take full responsibility for what I have done, for my bad choice.”

Jury convicts leader of rightwing group which supported Trump’s attempt to overturn 2020 election

The union organized Capitol dining workers and boosted Democrats in key states. So it was about time for its leader to visit Washington.

Keeping up with Nancy Pelosi hasn’t been easy. Now it’s the end of an era for her staff, as the speaker lets other Democrats take the lead.