January 6, 2026 marks the 5th anniversary of the attack on the United States Capitol building. The 2020 election was an intense one, with political tensions seeming to be at the highest they had been in decades.

Newsday's Billy House has covered Congress for different outlets for more than 20 years. He waited out part of the attack in the House chamber.

Approaching the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the official plaque honoring the police who defended democracy is nowhere to be found.

Pamela Hemphill, who said she rejected President Trump’s pardon for her role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, apologized to a Capitol Police officer who was assaulted during the mayhem.

Washington on Tuesday marks five years since a mob overran the US Capitol, with rioters pardoned by Donald Trump retracing their steps as Democrats revive hearings to hold the president

January 6, 2026, marks five years of the riots that broke out on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. A mob of Trump supporters sought to disrupt the certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election.

An electrical fire that broke out in the Rayburn subway tunnel that runs between the Rayburn House Office Building and the U.S. Capitol left two injured on Thursday. D.C. Fire and EMS confirmed that both people sent to hospital for evaluation were U.S ...

A group of pardoned Jan. 6 defendants marched on the Capitol again Tuesday, where former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio vowed legal retribution against prosecutors and the media.

Some 100 members of Congress, mostly Democrats, have mounted poster board-style replicas of the Jan. 6 plaque outside their office doors.