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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks during a news conference at the Department of Justice, August 5, 2026 in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
August 8, 2026, 1:07 pm
US Senate confirms Trump former lawyer Todd Blanche as attorney general
Republican-controlled Senate approves nomination 50-49 despite Democratic warnings over politicization of Justice Department after controversial fund proposal
By AFP
US acting Attorney General Todd Blanche testifies during a Senate Committee on Appropriations subcommittee hearing to address the Trump administration's budget request for the Justice Department, on May 19, 2026, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)
May 20, 2026, 9:35 am
US acting AG doesn’t rule out Trump payouts to Capitol rioters who assaulted police
Todd Blanche, leading US Justice Department after Pam Bondi’s firing, defends $1.8bn fund for victims of federal ‘lawfare,’ as angry Democrats invoke January 6, 2021 attack
By Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff
Jake Lang (right), who was charged with eight counts of assaulting officers on January 6, 2021, before his pardon, threatens DC Metropolitan Police officers during a rally and memorial march marking five years since the storming of the US Capitol, on January 6, 2026, in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)
January 8, 2026, 6:44 am
Pardoned Jan. 6 rioter performs Nazi salute, throws chocolate coins at anti-AIPAC protest
Jake Lang organizes antisemitic demonstration outside the pro-Israel lobby’s DC headquarters, calls for lawmakers who receive any AIPAC donations to be ‘hung for treason’
By Grace Gilson
Rioters supporting then-US president Donald Trump try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington, on January 6, 2021. (Julio Cortez/AP)
January 6, 2026, 8:08 pm
Fifth anniversary of Jan. 6 Capitol riot highlights partisan divisions in US
No formal event to be held 5 years on from deadly storming of Congress building; Trump to hold meeting at Kennedy Center, while Democrats will host hearing with witness testimonies
By LISA MASCARO
Images from an FBI poster seeking a suspect who allegedly placed pipe bombs in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. (FBI via AP, File)
December 4, 2025, 7:34 pm
FBI makes arrest in investigation into pipe bombs placed in DC on eve of Jan. 6 riot
Arrest marks first time investigators have settled on a suspect in an act that had long vexed law enforcement, spawned a multitude of conspiracy theories
By AP
US President Donald Trump speaks during a rally protesting the electoral college certification of Joe Biden as US president in Washington on January 6, 2021. (AP/Evan Vucci)
November 14, 2025, 8:45 am
BBC apologizes to Trump over deceptive Jan. 6 speech edit, but denies defaming him
Trump’s lawyer threatened to sue outlet for $1 billion over 2024 program that spliced together bits of president’s speech to sound like he overtly urged violence against Congress
By brian melley
A man walks by the entrance to the BBC in London on November 10, 2025. (HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)
November 10, 2025, 7:03 pm
BBC says Trump threatening to sue for $1 billion over edit of Jan. 6 speech
After UK broadcaster’s director and news head resign, BBC’s chair apologizes for ‘error of judgment’ in ‘misleading’ edit of speech, maintains it does not hold systemic biases
By Agencies
Protesters hold placards and wave Israeli flags as they take part in a 'Rape is NOT resistance' demonstration outside the BBC headquarters, in London, on February 4, 2024, to bring attention to the plight of kidnapped Israeli women in Gaza. (HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)
November 9, 2025, 11:58 pm
BBC top brass resigns amid criticism of Trump documentary, Gaza coverage
Network head Tim Davie, news chief Deborah Turness step down; Jewish communal group laments ‘scandal after scandal’; Foreign Ministry: BBC disinformation ‘fuels antisemitism’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio is flanked by Dominic Pezzola, left, and Joseph Biggs, right, at a news conference outside the US Capitol in Washington, Feb. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
June 7, 2025, 4:34 am
Proud Boys who orchestrated US Capitol riot file $100m lawsuit over convictions
Members of far-right group claim they were victims of ‘egregious and systemic abuse… to punish and oppress political allies of President Trump’
By AFP
FILE - Ed Martin speaks at an event hosted by Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., at the Capitol in Washington, June 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades, File)
May 10, 2025, 4:53 pm
Trump yanks key nomination for prosecutor who called Nazi sympathizer ‘extraordinary’
But president says Ed Martin Jr., who defended Jan. 6 rioters, will serve as associate deputy attorney general to probe ‘weaponization of government’ by Biden administration
By JTA and AP
Violent rioters, loyal to US President Donald Trump, storm the Capitol in Washington, January 6, 2021. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
January 21, 2025, 5:11 am
Trump issues sweeping pardon of supporters charged in Jan. 6 Capitol attack
Those set to be released include defendants captured on camera attacking law enforcement in riots four years ago
By AP
US President Donald Trump speaks alongside relatives of Israeli hostages taken by Hamas during the inaugural parade inside Capital One Arena, in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. Rescued hostage Noa Argamani is immediately behind Trump. (ANGELA WEISS / AFP)
January 21, 2025, 4:49 am
Trump invites hostages’ families on stage, before announcing pardon of ‘Jan. 6 hostages’
Relatives of abductees as well as freed hostage Noa Argamani welcomed by US president at rally; he declares: ‘More are coming home every day now; we never stopped praying for you’
By Jacob Magid
Rioters supporting then-US president Donald Trump try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington, on January 6, 2021. (Julio Cortez/AP)
January 21, 2025, 12:22 am
Trump said preparing to pardon people charged in Jan. 6 assault on US Capitol
US president reportedly seeking to commute sentences of rioters who attacked police, 4 years after mob called to hang then-vice president for certifying 2020 presidential election
By Agencies and ToI Staff
US President Joe Biden, right, and first lady Jill Biden stand before greeting President-elect Donald Trump and Melania Trump upon arriving at the White House, January 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
January 20, 2025, 6:40 pm
In final hours of presidency, Biden issues pardons to ward off potential Trump ‘revenge’
Outgoing US president preemptively pardons Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley, House committee members who investigated 2021 Capitol riot — none of whom have yet been probed
By Colleen Long and Zeke Miller
US President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida, January 7, 2025. (Evan Vucci/AP)
January 14, 2025, 10:44 am
Trump would have been convicted had he not been reelected, says ex-US special counsel
Report says that while Justice Department cannot convict sitting president, evidence against Trump in Jan. 6 case ‘was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial’
By AFP
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