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News Articles: Capitol riot

Fight for America! is a new art installation about democracy that invites audiences to play a war game — battling over the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

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  • Arts & Life

January 6th ... the board game?

Fight for America! is a new art installation about democracy that invites audiences to play a war game — battling over the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

February 16, 2025
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By:
  • Jennifer Vanasco
Pam Hemphill turned down a pardon for her role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.

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  • Politics

One of the Jan. 6 defendants has turned down Trump's pardon

Pamela Hemphill, who pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor charge and spent 60 days behind bars for her role in the Capitol riots, says she no longer believes the lies President Trump promoted.

January 23, 2025
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By:
  • Alana Wise
A supporter of President Trump's waves a flag Tuesday outside a Washington, D.C., jail where some defendants from the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol were being held. On Monday, Trump signed pardons for more than 1,500 people charged in the riot.

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  • Politics

Some Trump voters express reservations with his sweeping Jan. 6 pardons

One Trump voter told NPR he supported pardons related to the Capitol attack, but has a tougher time reconciling pardons for rioters who were violent with police.

January 22, 2025
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By:
  • Ashley Lopez and
  • Elena Moore
A supporter of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol holds a placard reading "Stop the Steal" as he takes part in a rally near Yoon's residence in Seoul on Sunday.

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  • World

Lessons from self-inflicted blows to democracy in South Korea and the U.S.

The brief declaration of martial law in South Korea last month has drawn comparisons to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The attempted power grabs could hold lessons for other democracies.

January 06, 2025
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By:
  • Anthony Kuhn
Trump supporters clash with police and security forces as people try to storm the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021.

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  • Politics

Donald Trump calls Jan. 6 a “day of love.” Here are the facts. 

Donald Trump often misrepresents what happened on Jan. 6, 2021, even referring to convicted rioters as “hostages.

October 31, 2024
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By:
  • Tom Dreisbach
Josh Abate and Micah Coomer inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

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  • National

The Jan. 6 riot included Marines. The military is wrestling with the consequences

A Marine and his buddies joined the mob that entered the Capitol on Jan. 6. They were not the only Marines there. NPR asked the Corps' top officer a question: Do the Marines have an extremism problem?

October 26, 2024
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By:
  • Tom Bowman and
  • Lauren Hodges
 In court papers, prosecutors described Timothy Hale-Cusanelli as a "Nazi sympathizer" who went to work at a Naval Weapons Station with a "Hitler mustache."

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  • Investigations

Trump’s Bedminster club hosted an alleged Nazi sympathizer who stormed the Capitol

At two events, Donald Trump’s New Jersey golf club hosted a convicted Jan. 6 rioter known for extreme antisemitic and racist comments, whom prosecutors described as a ‘white supremacist.’

September 12, 2024
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By:
  • Tom Dreisbach
Former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in September 2022. At the rally, Trump invited the president and founder of the nonprofit Patriot Freedom Project to give a speech. The group's close ties to Trump have prompted scrutiny from lawmakers.

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  • Investigations

Lawmakers call for IRS scrutiny of Trump-backed nonprofit that aids Jan. 6 rioters

A nonprofit that supports defendants charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection is facing scrutiny over its political activity. "The IRS should investigate this case immediately," said one congressman.

January 17, 2024
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By:
  • Tom Dreisbach
Donald Trump launched his latest presidential campaign with a rally in Waco, Texas. At the beginning of the rally, Trump played a song featuring the J6 Prison Choir, made up of defendants in jail on charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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  • Investigations

The Trump campaign embraces Jan. 6 rioters with money and pardon promises

Three years after supporters of Donald Trump violently stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the future of the criminal cases against the rioters may hinge on the presidential election.

January 04, 2024
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By:
  • Tom Dreisbach and
  • Noah Caldwell
Alan Hostetter, seen here in May 2020, became a leading activist against coronavirus-related lockdown policies in Orange County, Calif. Hostetter, a former police chief and yoga instructor, was convicted of conspiring to obstruct congress' certification of the 2020 presidential election results at the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.

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  • Investigations

Former police chief turned yoga teacher sentenced to 11 years over Jan. 6 riot

A retired police chief, who led pro-Trump protests and called for "traitors" in government to be "executed as an example," was sentenced to 11 years in prison for his role in the U.S. Capitol riot.

December 07, 2023
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By:
  • Tom Dreisbach and
  • Barbara Van Woerkom
In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, U.S. Capitol Police push back rioters trying to enter the U.S. Capitol in Washington.

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  • Law

Ex-State Department aide sentenced to nearly 6 years in Capitol riot attacks

Federico Klein joined other Trump supporters in one of the most violent episodes of the Jan. 6 siege — a mob's fight with outnumbered police for control of a Capitol tunnel entrance.

November 06, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
This image from U.S. Senate video, introduced at the trial of Bruno Joseph Cua, shows Cua sitting with his feet up in the Senate chamber on Jan. 6, 2021, during the riot at the U.S. Capitol. Cua, who stormed the U.S. Capitol, assaulted a police officer and sat in a Senate floor chair reserved for the vice president was sentenced on Wednesday, July 26, 2023, to one year in prison.

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  • News

High school student who sat in Pence's chair during Capitol riot is sentenced to 1 year in prison

A high school student who stormed the U.S. Capitol, assaulted a police officer and sat in a Senate floor chair reserved for the vice president has been sentenced to one year in prison. Georgia resident Bruno Joseph Cua was 18 when he attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, making him one of the youngest people charged in the riot.

July 26, 2023
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  • Associated Press
Rudy Giuliani speaks with reporters as he departs the federal courthouse, May 19, 2023, in Washington. Giuliani is not disputing that he publicly made statements about two Georgia election workers that were defamatory and false, but he contends they were constitutionally protected statements, according to a statement filed in court.

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  • News

Giuliani concedes he made public comments falsely claiming Georgia election workers committed fraud

Rudy Giuliani has conceded he made public comments falsely claiming two Georgia election workers committed ballot fraud during the 2020 presidential race. But he's arguing that the statements were protected by the First Amendment.

July 26, 2023
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  • Associated Press
Attorney John Eastman stands outside the California State Bar Court in downtown Los Angeles. The State Bar is seeking to revoke Eastman's law license over his work on former President Donald Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 election.

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  • Law

What we've learned from pro-Trump attorney John Eastman's state bar trial

Attorney John Eastman was a key player in Donald Trump's legal efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. The State Bar of California is now seeking to revoke Eastman's law license.

June 23, 2023
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By:
  • Tom Dreisbach
Jacob Chansley, also known as the "QAnon Shaman," screams "freedom" inside the U.S. Senate chamber after the U.S. Capitol was breached by a mob during a joint session of Congress on January 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C.

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  • National

U.S. Capitol rioter the 'QAnon Shaman' is released early from federal prison

Jacob Chansley recieved one of the longest sentences handed down to a U.S. Capitol rioter. He has been freed from prison and sent to a reentry center until late May.

March 31, 2023
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  • Juliana Kim
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