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A government shutdown occurs when Congress fails to pass a budget before the start of the new fiscal year. Here’s what you need to know.

U.S. Capitol Police officers searched Senate office buildings after receiving what they described as a “concerning 911 call” on Wednesday.

More than 1,000 people have been arrested in nearly all 50 states for alleged crimes related to the Capitol breach, officials said. More than 320 people have been charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement.

President Joe Biden has fired the embattled Architect of the Capitol, Brett Blanton, following a scathing inspector general report on his personal and professional management and calls for his removal.

U.S. Capitol Police said a man drove a truck onto the sidewalk outside the Library of Congress before claiming he had a bomb inside.

Officers who responded to the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol Insurrection received Congressional gold medals for their service. News4’s Mauricio Casillas reports.

Law enforcement officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 were honored Tuesday with Congressional Gold Medals nearly two years after they fought supporters of then-President Donald Trump in a brutal and bloody attack.

A man is dead after driving his car into a barricade outside the U.S. Capitol Sunday and then shooting himself, according to the U.S. Capitol Police.

After years of effort, a statue of aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart now stands in the U.S. Capitol.

Federal prosecutors have declined to bring charges against nine people associated with CBS’ “Late Show with Stephen Colbert” who were arrested in a U.S. Capitol complex building last month. A spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office says a conviction wasn’t probable given that those arrested had been invited and that their escorts had never asked them to leave. The nine...

Lawmakers unveiled a new statue Wednesday of civil rights icon, educator and women’s rights activist Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune at the U.S. Capitol.

A man faces charges after police say he parked outside the U.S. Capitol with “a fake badge, a BB gun, body armor, high capacity magazines and other ammunition.”

A retired NYPD officer posing as a criminal investigator with the “Department of the Interpol” was arrested outside the U.S. Capitol with body armor and high capacity magazines, authorities said Friday. The 53-year-old Michigan man was parked outside the west side of the Capitol around 5 a.m. when police officers noticed his vehicle, according to a statement from the...

The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday apologized for its failure to notify Capitol Police about a parachute stunt at Nationals Park that led to an urgent evacuation of the U.S. Capitol. “The FAA’s initial review of the circumstances surrounding Wednesday night’s parachute demonstration by the U.S. Army Golden Knights at Nationals Park showed that we did not provide advance notification of this...

The Federal Aviation Administration is reviewing a communications breakdown that led police to think an aircraft carrying military parachutists for a baseball stadium stunt was “a probable threat.”

U.S. Capitol Police ordered an evacuation Wednesday evening due to an aircraft that “posed a probable threat.”

The incident suggested a stunning communications failure between the military, the Federal Aviation Administration and the Capitol Police.

A mother fox that bit at least nine people near the U.S. Capitol was euthanized and authorities have found and captured her kits, officials told NBC News.

Rep. Ami Bera (D-Calif.) described the moment the fox “nipped” his leg on Monday to NBC News.