The Latest Breaking News from US Capitol

The far-right group sought to blend in, in apparent coordinated bid to stir up crowds storming the Capitol, report says.

The attack on the US Capitol wasn’t the isolated doing of Trump and a few loyalists. Nearly the entire Republican party is now united behind it – and the attack on democracy hasn’t ended

Panel says rioters came within close proximity to Mike Pence at US Capitol as Trump turned ‘mob’ on his vice president.

High drama, betrayal, catharsis: the televised select committee investigation makes for riveting viewing, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

Trump accuses a committee investigating his role in the Capitol riot of being a ‘kangaroo court’ to distract Americans.

Donald Trump’s advisers dismantled his false claims of 20202 election fraud but he became “detached from reality”, the US Capitol riot probe has heard.

Washington (AFP) - Donald Trump ignored repeated warnings from top aides against claiming the 2020 election was stolen, according to testimony unveiled Monday by the congressional panel probing the 2021 assault on the US Capitol.

In second hearing this month, congressional committee highlights that advisers told Trump fraud allegations were false.

The House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol lays out a road map for the hearings this month as it examines then-president Donald Trump's responsibility for the melee and the damage that resulted for law enforcement officers, members of Congress and others in attendance that day.

Los Angeles (AFP) - President Joe Biden warned Friday that the "forces" behind the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol last year remain a threat to democracy.

Washington (AFP) - Liz Cheney's dogged pursuit of Donald Trump over last year's riot at the US Capitol has cemented her status as the sole Republican to gamble her career as she breaks ranks with her party in the fight for US democracy.