Tag Archives: Capitol riot

Washington, USA | Xinhua | Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has reportedly testified before a federal grand jury investigating the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. Pence, a Republican, spent several hours testifying at a courthouse in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, according to media reports. A federal judge last month …

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | Former U.S. President Donald Trump has released a lengthy response to the Jan. 6 committee’s vote to subpoena him over the Capitol riot. “This memo is being written to express our anger, disappointment, and complaint,” Trump wrote in a letter to Democratic Congressman Bennie Thompson, chairman …

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | Two former White House aides to Donald Trump will reportedly testify at Thursday’s primetime hearing to be held by the House select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol attack last year, especially Trump’s inaction when the riot unfolded. Matthew Pottinger, former deputy national security adviser, …

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | The U.S. House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to reject former President Donald Trump’s bid to block the release of his White House’s records requested in the ongoing probe. Lawyers for the select committee in a brief …

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | A U.S. federal appeals court ruled Thursday to reject former President Donald Trump’s bid to block the National Archives from turning over his administration’s records to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. The three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously …

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | A U.S. federal appeals court on Thursday temporarily paused the release of the Donald Trump administration records sought by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, one day before some of the records were due to be transferred from the National Archives. A …

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | A U.S. federal judge ruled Tuesday that the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot can access records related to former President Donald Trump in the lead-up to the insurrection, dealing a blow to Trump’s effort to keep them secret. The ruling was made …

Washington, U.S | Xinhua | U.S. House voted Thursday to refer Steve Bannon, the onetime adviser to former President Donald Trump, to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution, accusing him of contempt of Congress over his refusal to cooperate with the investigation into the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. The resolution was …

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | A special committee of the U.S. House investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a report which holds a former adviser to former President Donald Trump in criminal contempt of the Congress. Released on Monday night, the report recommended that the House …

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | Former U.S. President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit on Monday against the National Archives and a House special committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot in a bid to block Congress from obtaining certain documents related to the insurrection. “The Committee’s request amounts to nothing less …