Shortly after the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, the political right spent a lot of time parsing whether the word “insurrection” was an apt description of the day’s events.

On September 18, 1793, President George Washington laid the first cornerstone of the Capitol, setting into motion a seemingly endless series of additions, restorations and expansions necessary to keep ...

Two federal prosecutors in Washington, DC, were placed on leave after describing the January 6, 2021 attack at the US Capitol as stemming from a “mob of rioters” in a sentencing memo Tuesday, ...

The Justice Department’s decision to sideline two US attorneys and remove mentions of Donald Trump and the US Capitol attack from court papers before the sentencing of a pardoned January 6 rioter is ...

Donald Trump is poised to again sue a major news organization — this time the BBC — following the publication of a leaked ...

Lawyers say Trump faces multiple hurdles in his legal war against the BBC, and the $1bn damages claim may just be “symbolic” ...

After Republicans rejected a Democratic proposal to reopen the government, a small group of moderate Democrats met with ...

While the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) did draw up an opinion to justify the strikes against suspected ...

Prop. 50 is Gov. Gavin Newsom’s munitions in a redistricting arms race sweeping through the nation ahead of the 2026 midterms ...

Dick Cheney, America’s most powerful modern vice president and chief architect of the “war on terror,” who helped lead the ...

Connecticut turned deeper blue this week as Democrats gained control of 29 additional towns across the state, prompting ...

On the heels of major victories for Democrats across the country, the government shutdown broke a record for being the ...