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A federal appeals court has overturned the death sentence for a man convicted of killing an Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper in 1999.

Amid rising concern over domestic extremism, an NPR analysis found military veterans were overrepresented in those charged in the attack on the U.S. Capitol, when compared to the general population.

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After BuzzFeed News reports on how the hectic day unfolded, government attorneys say they will work to bring the children back to the US as soon as possible.

A purported Proud Boys organizer was arrested in Florida Wednesday in connection with the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.

A former Arizona politician must report to prison Thursday to begin serving the first of three sentences for running an illegal adoption scheme that paid pregnant women from the Marshall Islands to come to the U.S. to give up their babies.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday pardoned an Alabama lawmaker who pleaded guilty two years ago for his role in a health care fraud case.

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Two Virginia police officers accused of making off-duty appearances at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 were ordered to give up their firearms by a federal judge Tuesday.

An Army reservist who federal investigators say has security-level security clearance and a long record of posting his extremist views online was among the latest wave of rioters charged by federal prosecutors in connection with the January 6 Capitol insurrection.

A LaSalle police officer who was cleared by a Weld County grand jury of criminal wrongdoing in the shooting death of an off-duty Adams County sheriff's deputy has been named in a civil lawsuit file…

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A West Virginia woman took a "Members Only" sign near the Senate chambers as she accompanied supporters of President Donald Trump in illegally storming the U.S. Capitol, according to federal court documents. Gracyn Dawn Courtright, 23, was charged in a criminal complaint with theft of government property

A five-time Olympic swimming medalist charged with participating in a deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol has been released from federal custody but ordered to stay…

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Justice Department prosecutors have formally walked back their assertion in a court filing that said Capitol rioters sought to "capture and assassinate elected officials."

"After seventeen years without a single federal execution, the Government has executed twelve people since July," Sotomayor wrote in her dissent.

DALLAS — A Dallas-area real estate agent who is facing charges for allegedly being part of the pro-President Donald Trump mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol last week said she's a "normal person" who listened to her president. Jenna Ryan, 50, is accused of "knowingly" entering or remaining in the

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Prosecutors respond to an unusual defense request, which signaled the first of what is likely to be several legal challenges in the case.