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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.

The U.S. Capitol will reopen to the public on Monday for guided tours for limited groups of people who have registered in advance.

Guy Wesley Reffitt told U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich that he won’t be testifying at his trial on charges that he stormed the Capitol while armed with a holstered handgun and interfered with police.

Jurors have heard attorneys’ opening statements in the first trial for one of the hundreds of people charged with storming the U.S. Capitol last year

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

A woman wielding a baseball bat near the U.S. Capitol bit an officer and was arrested Friday, police say.  Olivia Romano, 25, was taken into U.S. Capitol Police custody, the department said.  Officers encountered Romano on First Street SW, just west of the Capitol, at about 9:30 a.m. She “appeared agitated” and was carrying the bat, police said in...

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.