Proud Boys members Ethan Nordean and Joseph Biggs will return to custody following a D.C. federal judge’s decision to revoke their bail after new evidence presented by prosecutors.
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A member of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group and heavy metal guitarist on Friday became the first defendant to plead guilty to federal charges in connection with the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
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Police overlooked key intelligence warning of violent marauders heading to Washington D.C. on Jan. 6, the inspector general of the United States Capitol Police told members of Congress in the first part of a two-part hearing on police preparedness leading up and during the insurrection.
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A blistering internal report by the U.S. Capitol Police describes a multitude of missteps that left the force unprepared for the Jan. 6 insurrection — riot shields that shattered upon impact, expired weapons that couldn’t be used, inadequate training and an intelligence division that had few set standards.
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A federal court in Washington ruled that Federico “Freddie” Klein, who is facing an eight-count indictment relating to his participation in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, should be released from custody pending trial. Klein, who was appointed to a position in the State Department during the Trump administration, allegedly “used force against several officers” in an attempt to breach the Capitol entrance.
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A week of violence in Northern Ireland is poised to extend into the weekend, which coincides with the 23rd anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement. The terms of the Brexit deal, which leave Northern Ireland inside the orbit of the European Union, are fueling riots.
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Crowds from Protestant and Catholic communities hurled bricks, fireworks and gasoline bombs at police and each other overnight in Belfast, as a week of street violence escalated.
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Republican Amanda Chase claims her political punishment for speaking at a Trump rally just before the deadly Capitol insurrection violated her free speech rights, but a federal judge questioned whether his court is the right place for the dispute.
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A mountain of evidence links the former president’s rhetoric to the Jan. 6 insurrection attempting to overturn the election, but the First Amendment has traditionally shielded political speech from liability.
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Eric Munchel and his mother, Lisa Eisenhart, who breached the Capitol in the Jan. 6 riot, can be released from jail and await their trial while in home confinement, prosecutors said Monday.
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The government won a stay to prevent the release of Zachary Rehl, who left a trail of electronic evidence about his efforts to fight the 2020 election results.
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The D.C. Circuit ordered a lower court to reconsider letting two people charged in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol walk free until their trials.
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Timothy Louis Hale-Cusanelli, who was indicted for civil disobedience and other charges relating to his participation in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, will not be released on bond, a federal judge in Washington ruled. Hale-Cusanelli was a former contractor at Naval Weapons Station Earle, where he had a “secret” security clearance and is an “avowed white supremacist and Nazi sympathizer,” according to the affidavit of an NCIS special agent.
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Four men described as leaders of the far-right Proud Boys have been charged in the U.S. Capitol riots, as an indictment ordered unsealed on Friday presents fresh evidence of how federal officials believe group members planned and carried out a coordinated attack to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s electoral victory.
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Most respondents ranked political extremism as a greater concern than religious extremism, and widespread consensus is federal officials should continue prosecuting the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol in January.
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The criminal complaint describes three members of law enforcement who were attacked in the face with bear spray when pro-Trump extremists breached the U.S. Capitol building.
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The Republican-supported House Bill 1674 also seeks to punish rioters with up to a year in state prison and $5,000 in fines
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The FBI has released new video showing someone placing two pipe bombs outside the offices of the Republican and Democratic national committees the night before the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
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Prosecutors say the ex-State Department aide incited the Capitol mob as it tried to breach police lines and shoved a riot shield into an officer.
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