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Minority Leader Jay Costa, D-Allegheny, said Sen. Doug Mastriano's words and actions since November encouraged a coup attempt and inspired the people behind it.

The first step to quelling an insurrection is installing a competent government, said author and Navy veteran Malcolm Nance.

“Nobody is fooled by these last-second, come-to-Jesus conversions,” said Rick Wilson, co-founder of the Lincoln Project, a group of Republicans fiercely critical of Trump.

The U.S. Capitol Police said in a statement that Officer Brian D. Sicknick was injured “while physically engaging with protesters" during the Wednesday riot.

Much of the reaction among Biden and Trump supporters caused reactions that broke along existing political fault lines.

Twitter had threatened to block him from the platform over posts he made in the wake of the violence.

Kim, a second-term Democrat from a district Trump won twice, wasn’t looking for publicity, according to one colleague who came upon him and didn’t recognize him at first.

Morning Edition host Jennifer Lynn speaks with WHYY political reporter Katie Meyer about how Pa.’s political disarray stoked tensions in D.C. this week.

A Pa. Trump supporter was one of the few insurrectionists arrested Wednesday for storming the nation’s capital in an attempt to disrupt the 2020 election.

A mob stormed the U.S. Capitol after Trump urged supporters to march to the building to oppose the election results. Roughly 14 hours later, Congress affirmed Biden's victory.

Merrick Garland is likely best known as a nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court who was refused even a hearing by Senate Republicans.

Democrats and some Republicans want Trump removed before his term ends on Jan. 20 with Democrat Joe Biden’s inauguration.

Skyrocketing deaths and infections there are threatening to force hospitals to ration care and essentially decide who lives and who dies.

Armed with pro-Trump banners, the rioters far outnumbered and swiftly overwhelmed Capitol Police as they charged up the steps, smashed windows, broke into the Senate chamber.