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A new report by a private research group, and a separate review by NBC News, uncovered hundreds of social media posts discussing plans to move on the Capitol, including a map of the facility and talk of how to create a stampede that would overwhelm Capitol Police.

Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who was injured while confronting rioters during the Jan. 6 insurrection, suffered a stroke and died from natural causes, the Washington, D.C., medical examiner’s office ruled Monday, a finding that lessens the chances that anyone will be charged in his death.

U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick suffered strokes and died of natural causes the day after he defended the Capitol against an insurrection on Jan. 6, D.C.’s chief medical examiner ruled.

A federal judge on Monday ordered two leaders of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group to be arrested and jailed while awaiting trial on charges they planned and coordinated an attack on the U.S. Capitol to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s electoral victory.

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.

Prosecutors secured their first guilty plea in the U.S. Capitol insurrection. Scott MacFarlane reports an Indiana man linked to the far-right group Oath Keepers entered his plea Friday in D.C. federal court.

The prosecutions of defendants from the U.S. Capitol insurrection are flooding the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, threatening to slow the processing of cases and stretching the resources and public defenders in the court system.

One hundred days after the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, the number of people charged is growing quickly. At least 400 cases have already been filed and more are likely to come. Scott MacFarlane and the News4 I-Team report the cases are coming so quickly that justice for the accused is likely to be very slow.

The internal inspector for U.S. Capitol Police testified before Congress about mistakes that were made surrounding the Jan. 6 riot and recommended changes. News4’s Scott MacFarlane reports.

A scathing new review of U.S. Capitol Police and how they handled the Jan. 6 insurrection from the Inspector General said the agency ignored warnings and was not properly equipped before the riots. News4’s Scott MacFarlane reports it also offers a series of recommended changes.

Federal prosecutors will not charge a police officer who shot and killed a woman as she climbed through the broken part of a door during the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

The FBI canvassed neighborhoods on Capitol Hill trying to find more witnesses and video of the night of Jan. 5, when someone placed live pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Democratic and Republican parties. Scott MacFarlane reports.

Officer William “Billy” Evans, who was killed in a car-ramming attack outside the Capitol, is just the fourth officer ever to lie in honor at the Capitol Rotunda.

More than three months after the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, Congress is still trying to figure out how to move forward and prevent future attacks

New details from the deadly riot of Jan. 6 are in a previously undisclosed document prepared by the Pentagon for internal use.

The number of cases against accused U.S. Capitol insurrectionists has now surpassed 370. The feds have made another series of arrests and filed a new batch of charging documents. News4’s Scott MacFarlane reports.

Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman and Metropolitan Police Chief Robert J. Contee III held a joint press conference on Friday after a suspect armed with a knife rammed a barrier to the U.S. Capitol, killing one police officer and injuring another. “This has been an extremely difficult time for U.S. Capitol Police after the events of January 6, and now...

In the 40-page complaint filed in D.C. federal court on Tuesday, lawyers for officers James Blassingame and Sidney Hemby accuse Trump of directing the assault and aiding and abetting the actions of the rioters.

A federal judge has authorized the release of a Georgia woman and her Tennessee son on charges for their involvement in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.