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5 Takeaways From the First Jan. 6 Hearing

The committee’s leaders laid out what they described as an intentional scheme with Donald J. Trump at the center. Videotaped testimony showed that key...

Trump Is Depicted as a Would-Be Autocrat Seeking to Hang Onto Power at All Costs

As the Jan. 6 committee outlined during its prime-time hearing, Donald J. Trump executed a seven-part conspiracy to overturn a free and fair democratic...

Nick Quested: Documentary Filmmaker Who Embedded With Proud Boys Testifies at Hearing

Mr. Quested began spending time with the Proud Boys after the election as part of a project meant to explore the increasing polarization and...

Watch Live: Jan. 6 Committee Holds First Public Hearing

The House committee has spent nearly a year investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and the events that led up to...

Who Is Zoe Lofgren?

A close ally of Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, Ms. Lofgren, first elected to Congress in 1994, is one of four lawyers on the...

Supreme Court Allows Undated Ballots in Pennsylvania Election

A state law required mailed ballots to be accompanied by a signed and dated declaration, but a federal appeals court ruled that undated declarations...

Sorting Out Blame in the Ukraine War

Readers respond to an essay by Christopher Caldwell that placed some of the blame on the U.S. Also: Gun testimony in Congress; climate change;...

Will Prime Time Undermine or Elevate the Jan. 6 Hearings?

Our panelists discuss how televising the House committee sessions could shape the long-haul defense of democracy.

House Approves Wide-Ranging Gun Control Measures

Lawmakers voted 223 to 204 to advance a package of gun control legislation, but the measures are unlikely to pass in the evenly divided...

As Survivors Demand Action, House Passes Gun Bill Doomed in the Senate

On a day of wrenching testimony from victims of the school shooting in Uvalde, Democrats pushed through a gun control package facing solid G.O.P....

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