Portland reporter presses mayor on whether inaction on city violence inspired Capitol Hill rioters

Ava DuVernay’s collective ARRAY keeps on amplifying voices and artists to help push systemic change and representation with the release of W.J. Lofton’s Breonna Taylor-inspired visual poem Would You Kill Go Too? Lofton is the second artist commissioned for ARRAY’s Law Enforcement Accountability Project (LEAP), a fund founded in the wake of George Floyd’s murder to catalyze creative expression around police violence.

After a month of non-stop news culminating with President Joe Biden's inauguration, NBC News this weekend officially moved in to its long-planned new Washington D.C. bureau and studios.

The Idaho man photographed last week climbing down from the Senate balcony during the Capitol Hill riot is once again apologizing for his actions following his release from jail ahead of trial.  Josiah Colt, a 34-year-old from Boise, was charged with knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, according to the Justice Department.

Fox Nation host Nancy Grace dedicated the latest episode of "Crime Stories" to last week's riot on Capitol Hill that left five people dead and shocked the nation.  "We just went through one hell of a year in 2020 with the coronavirus, with the [death of] George Floyd, with the protests. And this has somehow become, I believe, what some people consider to be normal, to go in and destroy, to to just have insurrection," a SWAT team officer and former detective told Grace in the episode.

coronavirus spread? We’ve essentially not only played the role of a news organization, I think we’ve played the role in some ways of a public health organization imparting real health news.It was very important to me that we be there in Minneapolis following the murder of George Floyd to be there for his memorial to see and talk to people about why they were so outraged. ...

The New York Times was forced to issue a correction after initially labeling a journalist from The Daily Caller as a "rioter" in a piece about last week's mayhem on Capitol Hill.  An essay initially published Friday featured several harrowing images from the turmoil that interrupted the joint session of Congress tabulating the Electoral College votes in the 2020 presidential election. One of the images showed a shirtless man attempting to communicate with law enforcement on the other side of

The FBI is counting on the help from New York City’s police department to investigate an officer’s possible involvement in last week’s violent storming of the U.S. Capitol as new reports claim that D.C. officials were warned about online threats prior to the riots.

The 2013 police shooting death of Miriam Carey has received new attention after the Capitol riot last week caused many Black activists to draw contrasts between the responses to the predominantly pro-Trump White crowd and to the George Floyd unrest over the summer. Carey, a 34-year-old dental hygienist from Stamford, Conn., was shot and killed by U.S.

Michelle Obama released a statement on Thursday referencing the violent riots that took place this week at Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., where massive groups of pro-Trump supporterstried to thwart a peaceful transfer of power to incoming President-elect Joe Biden.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti made a staggering comparison on Thursday. The mayor said that the near-record number of 259 daily Covid-19 deaths in L.A. County on Tuesday was “more than all the homicides in 2019 in L.A. City combined.”

Conservative commentator Candace Owens blasted what she suggested was the selective outrage towards the riot that took place on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, compared to the reaction to the unrest that took place last summer.  There has been widespread condemnation of the pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol building as a joint session of Congress was meeting to certify the Electoral College victory of President-elect Joe Biden.

President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris are facing intense pushback for suggesting that there has been a double standard between how law enforcement treated the Capitol Hill rioters on Wednesday versus the "peaceful" Black Lives Matter protesters last summer.  Trump supporters sparked unrest on the steps of the Capitol Building as a joint session of Congress was certifying Biden's Electoral College victory, causing lawmakers to go into lockdown.The riot left four dead, including

Freshman Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., said Thursday she is still in "shock" at the events that unfolded in the U.S.

Jason Chaffetz called for the protesters who stormed Capitol Hill to be arrested and prosecuted to prove that actions have consequences, but the former Republican congressman pointed out that violent anti-police demonstrators weren’t always held accountable.   Chaffetz, who was the chairman of the U.S.

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bower on Thursday called for statehood for the District of Columbia and demanded that power over the D.C.

The devices found near the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday were actual explosive devices, according to a senior federal law enforcement official briefed on the investigations. Fox News first reported that multiple IEDs, resembling pipe bombs, were found near the Capitol grounds on Wednesday.

Violence and unrest erupted outside Trump-affiliated buildings across the country following hours of mayhem on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., according to reports and posts shared on social media. Within hours of the U.S.

Leaders, officials and critics from America’s adversaries are taking aim at the U.S.

As he has so many times over the past decade and more, Barack Obama spoke directly to the chaos that enveloped Capitol Hill today and how it was an inevitable outcome of Donald Trump’s time in the White House.

Players from both the Boston Celtics and the Miami Heat took a knee during the national anthem ahead of Wednesday night’s game, marking a somber moment of a chaotic day.