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The U.S. Capitol has been ravaged by COVID-19 in recent weeks, with the onsite testing center’s 7-day positivity rate jumping from 1 percent to greater than 13 percent, according to the Office of the Attending Physician. “The coronavirus omicron variant of the SARS CoV2 coronavirus accounts for most coronavirus cases at the Capitol and elsewhere in the United States,” said Brian...

Civil rights activist and Bethune-Cookman University founder Mary McLeod Bethune will soon make history again.  She will be the first Black person to represent a state in the National Statuary Hall Collection at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. The renowned educator’s Florida-commissioned statue will be placed permanently in the Capitol in February 2022, replacing the statue of a...

President Joe Biden was joined by leadership from both the House and Senate to pay tribute to former Senator Bob Dole.

Bob Dole lay in state Thursday at the U.S. Capitol, as the president and others gathered to pay tribute to a “giant of our history” who served the country in war and in politics with pragmatism, self-deprecating wit and a bygone era’s sense of common civility and compromise.

The body of the late Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas will lie in state in the U.S. Capitol on Thursday as congressional leaders honor the former Republican presidential candidate and World War II veteran

At least five people charged in the riot at the U.S. Capitol have chosen to defend themselves in court

The bill now goes to the House of Representatives, which is expected to green-light the bill.

The Justice for J6 protest in D.C. this weekend is set to bring supporters of Jan. 6 defendants amid heightened security around the U.S. Capitol.

A man who drove to Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6 with guns and ammunition and threatened to shoot House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the head on live television pleaded guilty Friday.

Fencing around the U.S. Capitol erected following the Jan. 6 insurrection is coming down, once again opening grounds of the People’s House to the public.

Scott MacFarlane says that the January 6 riots will bring changes to the Capitol.

The one-two punch of the coronavirus pandemic that shuttered the Capitol’s doors in the spring of 2020 and the deadly January riot by Donald Trump’s supporters has left the icon of American democracy closed to all but a select few.

U.S. Capitol Police say that threats to members of Congress have more than doubled this year

President Joe Biden says “never has there been more strain” on the U.S. Capitol Police as he honored Officer William “Billy” Evans, the second officer to die in the line of duty this year

One officer is dead after a man slammed his car into two Capitol Police officers outside the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. Friday afternoon, officials said. The suspect, identified as 25-year-old Noah Green of Indiana, pulled into the Capitol complex Friday, rammed two officers with a car, then jumped out of the vehicle with a knife and attacked...

A driver struck two officers, killing one. The suspect has been identified as a 25-year-old male from Indiana.

A U.S. Capitol Police officer died and another was badly injured Friday when a man rammed a car into them at a barricade outside the U.S. Capitol, authorities said. Police shot the suspect, who also died.

Authorities suggested for weeks in court hearings and papers that members of the Oath Keepers militia group planned their attack on the Capitol in advance in an effort to block the peaceful transition of power.