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The House speaker said she had already made her interest known to Vice President Pence, and if he and the Cabinet don't act "Congress may be...

The move is the most severe punishment any social media company has taken in response to Trump, who used online platforms to encourage the v...

Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy said the 7-foot tall "non-scalable fence" will be in place for "at least" the next 30 days. McCarthy also said...

Ratified in 1967, the 25th Amendment to the Constitution gives the vice president the ability to subsume the powers of the presidency if he...

The woman killed by United States Capitol Police was identified as Ashli E. Babbitt, 35, of San Diego. She was one of four who died during W...

The way police handled Wednesday's onslaught showed that "some people are ... given certain kinds of leeway or space, and other people are n...

Police say 14 officers were injured and approximately 52 arrests were made by Wednesday night. Law enforcement agencies are requesting the p...

Extremists, supporters of President Trump, breached the U.S. Capitol in an unprecedented violent act. Early Thursday Congress certified Pres...

Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced new voluntary restrictions amid alarm at rapidly increasing coronavirus case numbers.

A violent pro-Trump mob breached the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, as lawmakers were certifying Electoral College votes. One of the most shocki...

NPR's Noel King talks to Eddie Glaude, chair of Princeton University's department of African American Studies, about the response to the U.S...

The storming of the U.S. Capitol by pro-Trump extremists has shocked America's allies, and prompted denunciations. They've called it an assa...

West Virginia Del. Derrick Evans, sworn in last month, was seen in a since-deleted video entering the building. It is unclear whether Evans...

Congress reconvened to finish the tally of the Electoral College votes after pro-Trump extremists were cleared from the U.S. Capitol grounds...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Rep. Cori Bush, D.-Mo., about what it was like to be inside the U.S. Capitol when pro-Trump extremists br...

NPR sums up news of the day: pro-Trump insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, officials' reaction to it and congressional meeting to tally the el...

NPR's congressional reporter discusses Congress' return to the electoral count and what the pro-Trump insurrection at the U.S. Capitol might...

A rally in support of President Trump turned chaotic on Wednesday. NPR looks at how President Trump and President-elect Joe Biden reacted to...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Terry Gainer, former chief of the Capitol Police and former Senate sergeant-at-arms, about how Capitol Po...

After the U.S. Capitol grounds have been cleared, lawmakers returned to the floor of the Senate to finish certifying the results of November...

The extremists are calmly milling about the Capitol grounds, despite the D.C. curfew in effect. The relatively peaceful dispersal is in star...

Pro-Trump extremists halted lawmakers as they counted the Electoral College ballots for President-elect Joe Biden.(Image credit: Samuel Coru...

While local police reported some arrests, many of the rallies remained peaceful. (Image credit: RINGO CHIU/AFP via Getty Images)

In Hong Kong, dozens of pro-democracy lawmakers and activists were arrested — the biggest roundup under the new national security law since...

Sudan has taken another step to shed its past as a pariah state, two years after the country's longtime leader was ousted. And on Wednesday,...