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News Articles: Jan 6

Jeanine Pirro speaks during 2022 FOX Nation Patriot Awards in 2022 in Hollywood, Fla.

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  • Law

Trump names Fox's Pirro as interim U.S. attorney for D.C. after dropping earlier pick

President Trump named Fox News personality Jeanine Pirro as the interim top prosecutor in Washington, D.C., to replace Ed Martin.

May 09, 2025
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By:
  • Tom Dreisbach
President Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on Tuesday.

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  • Politics

Trump defends his decision to pardon January 6 rioters

Trump said those prosecuted for the attack on the U.S. Capitol had served long enough, and he sought to shift criticism to a set of preemptive pardons issued by former President Joe Biden.

January 21, 2025
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By:
  • Jason Breslow
President-elect Donald Trump walks from the podium after a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2024, in Palm Beach, Fla.

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  • Politics

Trump in news conference says 'all hell will break out' if Gaza hostages not released

The president-elect made a similar pledge on social media in early December. His latest comments came during a wide-ranging news conference from Mar-a-Lago.

January 07, 2025
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By:
  • Franco Ordoñez and
  • Lexie Schapitl
Leander Antwione Williams, identified by the FBI as the man with a “W” on his shirt, is seen on bodycam footage in an altercation with police officers during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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  • Politics

Former NFL, Ga. Southern player in Savannah pleads not guilty to Jan. 6 charges

Leander Antwione Williams is due back in court after President-elect Trump takes office.

December 17, 2024
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
The Fox News studios and headquarters in New York City, March 21, 2023.

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  • Law

Federal judge dismisses defamation lawsuit against Fox News

A judge threw out a suit against Fox News by a former Trump supporter who said he got death threats when the network aired false conspiracy theories about his involvement in the Jan. 6 insurrection.

November 27, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Special counsel Jack Smith led the Jan. 6 case against Donald Trump. That case is now all but dead.

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  • Law

Judge grants dismissal of Jan. 6 case against Trump

The move came after federal prosecutors filed a motion to dismiss both the Jan. 6 and Mar-a-Lago documents cases against Donald Trump.

November 25, 2024
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By:
  • NPR Washington Desk
Leander Antwione Williams, identified by the FBI as the man with a “W” on his shirt, is seen on bodycam footage in an altercation with police officers during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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  • Politics

Former NFL, Ga. Southern player in Savannah arrested on Jan. 6 charges, due in DC court this week

Former Detroit Lion and Georgia Southern University football player Leander Antwione Williams is charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

November 18, 2024
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
Vice President Harris speaks during a campaign rally in Ann Arbor, Mich., on Oct. 28, 2024.

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  • Politics

Harris returns to the site of Trump’s Jan. 6 rally to make her closing argument

A week before Election Day, Vice President Harris will use the backdrop to lay out the case for turning the page on the divisive and chaotic politics of her Republican opponent.

October 29, 2024
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  • Tamara Keith
A bronze art installation depicting a pile of feces on former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's desk appeared on the National Mall near the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, surprising and amusing passersby.

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  • Strange News

Poop on Pelosi's desk, a neo-Nazi tiki torch: Mysterious statues are popping up in D.C.

Two politically pointed statues have mysteriously appeared in the nation’s capital in the leadup to the election: a pile of poop on the former House speaker's desk and a hand holding a tiki torch.

October 29, 2024
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
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 this photo provided by the FBI, the man in the yellow circle is identified by an agent as Dominic Box on the east stairs of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

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  • Politics

Savannah man found guilty of federal crimes for involvement in Jan. 6 Capitol siege

The federal judge's ruling against Dominic Box came nearly two years after prosecutors first filed charges against him.

October 17, 2024
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
In this frame from U.S. Capitol surveillance video, the man in the yellow circle is identified by the FBI as Dominic Box, entering through the Senate wing door of the building on Jan. 6, 2021.

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  • Politics

Savannah Jan. 6 defendant admits involvement in Capitol attack, ahead of scheduled June bench trial

As part of an agreement with federal prosecutors, Dominic Box will retain his right to appeal a judge's pending ruling on his case.

May 24, 2024
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
In this Jan. 6, 2021 file photo Amy Kremer, founder and chair of Women for America First, speaks in Washington, at a rally in support of President Donald Trump. Kremer, who helped organize the rally that preceded the violent storming of the Capitol building, is running for a seat on the Republican National Committee from Georgia in a party election on Saturday, May 18, 2024. Kremer say the national party hasn't done enough to support Trump and protect his supporters.

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  • News

Amy Kremer helped organize the pro-Trump Jan. 6 rally. Now she is seeking a Georgia seat on the RNC

Amy Kremer is a conservative activist who helped organize the Jan. 6, 2021, rally that led to a mob storming the U.S. Capitol. As Donald Trump seeks a return to the White House, she's trying to win one of two Georgia seats on the Republican National Committee.

May 17, 2024
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  • Associated Press
This image from police body-worn camera video, contained and annotated in the Justice Department’s sentencing memorandum for Jack Wade Whitton, shows Whitton at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. Whitton, a Georgia business owner, has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison for striking an officer with a metal crutch and dragging him, head first and face down, into the crowd on the Capitol’s Lower West Terrace during the riot at the Capitol.

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  • News

Man who bragged that he ‘fed’ an officer to the mob of Capitol rioters gets nearly 5 years in prison

A Georgia business owner who bragged that he “fed” a police officer to a mob of rioters storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced on Thursday to nearly five years in prison for his repeated attacks on law enforcement during the insurrection.

May 02, 2024
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  • Associated Press
The Supreme Court will review part of a federal obstruction law that has been used to prosecute some of those individuals involved in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

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  • Law

Supreme Court hears challenge to law used to prosecute hundreds of Jan. 6 defendants

The case tests the statute used to prosecute hundreds of defendants charged with invading the Capitol to stop the counting of electoral ballots for president in 2020.

April 16, 2024
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  • Nina Totenberg
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