There was another round of Senate confirmation hearings today on Capitol Hill. A number of President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees were on the hot seat again today as they answered numerous questions from several Senate committee members.

A Massachusetts man has been arrested on weapons charges after authorities say he visited the U.S. Capitol and told police that he came there to kill billionaire investor Scott Bessent on the day the Senate confirmed him as President Donald Trump’s treasury secretary.

In positioning himself as a junior partner to the president and doing his bidding on matters large and small, the Louisiana Republican is diminishing a job that involves leading a coequal branch of government.

The move was the latest example of how the prosecutor in charge in Washington, Ed Martin, has sought in recent days to wind down the office’s sprawling investigation of the Capitol attack.

Senate Democrats are unveiling a resolution Monday that would condemn President Trump’s pardons of those found guilty of assaulting police officers during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. The

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has invited President Trump to give his first address to Congress on March 4.  “Your administration and the 119th Congress working together have the chance to

Readers discuss Jan. 6 pardons, past violence at the Capitol and other acts of clemency. Regarding the Jan. 21 front-page story “ Trump extends clemency to all involved in Jan. 6 riot ”:

President Trump pardoned men who violently attacked police officers on Jan. 6 along with nearly 1,600 other people who had been charged in connection with the riot. But his grant of clemency did not erase the video evidence of their crimes.

A federal judge temporarily blocked President Trump’s executive order that aims to restrict automatic citizenship to babies born on U.S. soil, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional.” The order Mr. Trump signed on Monday would reverse decades of precedent and affect children born to undocumented or temporary immigrants.

A small group of Republican lawmakers met with President Trump in the Oval Office on his first full day as they plan to rocket launch the MAGA agenda.

Some Republicans on Capitol Hill were particularly critical of the pardons for those convicted of assaulting police officers, while others declined to defend Trump's move.