Capitol Hill

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The slaying of a Las Vegas newspaper reporter, allegedly at the hands of one of his investigative targets, is driving home a reality the U.S. hasn't had to confront since the Civil War: journalism on home soil is becoming more dangerous.

Members of the security detail protecting U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence from the mob of protesters storming Capitol Hill last year were so fearful for their lives that they asked colleagues to say goodbye to their family members, the Jan. 6 committee heard on Thursday, July 21, 2022.

It's a lesson oddsmakers have long since learned the hard way: never assume the imminent political demise of one Donald Trump.

With inflation spiralling, gas prices soaring and the soil of Ukraine now sown with the seeds of another great-powers conflict, the White House issued a pointed reminder on Tuesday, March 15, 2022, about another international crisis the United States isn't quite done with yet: COVID-19.

United States senators relived a terrifying day of reckoning for American democracy on Tuesday, February 9, 2021, as they began the process of deciding the political future of former president Donald Trump.

When it comes to impeaching Donald Trump, a new poll suggests Americans are just as divided as the United States Senate.

With Joe Biden's inauguration just 10 days out, the U.S. capital battened down the hatches on Monday, January 11, 2021, as the chilling truth of the Capitol Hill incursion and the dire consequences for Donald Trump both came into sharper focus.

Authorities are collecting information about the right-wing Proud Boys group as part of a possible terrorist designation, the federal Liberal government said on Sunday, January 10, 2021, as it faced calls to ban the organization over its role in last week’s Capitol Hill riot.

Julian Brave NoiseCat watched as America's already frayed democracy was further shredded this week. Doubts and fears remain.

Canadian political leaders expressed shock and dismay at events Wednesday in Washington, D.C., as a violent mob loyal to U.S. President Donald Trump paraded through the Capitol building, stealing items and vandalizing property.

If the least surprising thing in the world is that a mob of Trump extremists would storm the U.S. House and Senate as they met to confirm the president-elect, the most shocking was that it would be so easy, writes Sandy Garossino.

What was supposed to be a historic day in the U.S. capital lived up to that billing for all the wrong reasons Wednesday as an angry throng of Donald Trump supporters managed to overpower police and lay siege to Capitol Hill. 

The battle for control of Capitol Hill came down to the wire on Tuesday, January 5, 20201, as a late surge of votes from Atlanta's suburban outskirts put Democrats within shouting distance of the two remaining seats in the U.S. Senate.

Tens of thousands of the 72 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump showed up on his doorstep on Saturday, November 14, 2020, urging on the president in his quixotic bid to subvert the results of last week's election.