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Four law enforcement officers who responded to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol died by suicide in the days, weeks, and months following the riot, and one officer, U.S. Capitol Police O...
There is no verifiable, publicly available count of how many people who participated in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol are currently employed as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I...
At least 138–174 law enforcement officers were reported injured in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, with dozens suffering concussions, traumatic brain injuries, cracked ribs, spinal da...
Five deaths are commonly cited in connection with the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol when counting deaths that occurred on or immediately after the violence on the Capitol grounds: four c...
Jake Lang was federally charged in connection with the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol with a multi‑count indictment that accused him of assaulting officers with a baseball bat and other o...
The officer who shot Ashli Babbitt on January 6, 2021, is a U.S. Capitol Police lieutenant who initially remained unnamed but later identified in reporting; federal prosecutors declined to bring crimi...
No—there has never been a successful invocation of the 25th Amendment to remove or permanently displace Donald J. Trump from the presidency; what occurred instead were urgent discussions, public calls...
Available sources show no record that President Trump formally ordered 10,000–20,000 National Guard troops to the U.S. Capitol before or on January 6, 2021; multiple fact‑checks and official timelines...
Multiple contemporaneous official inventories and photo reports from January 2021 make , while some contemporaneous statements and later commentary claimed rioters smeared feces and urine inside the b...
Government watchdogs and major news outlets say no undercover FBI employees were present at the Capitol or embedded in the Jan. 6 crowds; the Justice Department Inspector General’s report concluded “n...
The estimated dollar value of direct physical damage to the U.S. Capitol during the January 6, 2021 riot varies across official filings and later government tallies: early Justice Department and Archi...
The death toll from the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol is contested in public reporting because counts depend on whether deaths that occurred days or months later and those of law‑enforce...
Estimates of damage to the U.S. Capitol from the Jan. 6, 2021 attack vary across official filings and reporting: the Architect of the Capitol and related agencies put direct property damage to the Cap...
Officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, sustained a wide spectrum of injuries ranging from concussions and traumatic brain injuries to broken bones, lacerations, chemical exposure, ...
Available reporting shows President Donald Trump discussed and floated deploying National Guard forces around January 6, 2021, but there is no consensus in the record that he specifically ordered troo...
The number of people who died “as a direct result” of the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot depends on definitions and which deaths are counted; contemporary reporting and official summaries most commonly ...
The publicly available reporting and analyses present of all people injured during the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack, but multiple contemporary accounts indicate injuries ranged from dozens of ...
The central claim under review is whether Nancy Pelosi bore responsibility for or orchestrated the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack; available public analyses show , but they do document contested...
On January 6, 2021, the National Guard was to the U.S. Capitol; multiple timelines show requests and deliberations occurred before authorization, with the District of Columbia National Guard (DCNG) re...
Newly released footage shows then‑Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying “I take responsibility” for security failures on Jan. 6 and asking why the National Guard “wasn’t there to begin with,” but multiple fact‑...