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Former President Donald Trump appealed to the Supreme Court Thursday to block the release of certain documents to the House of Representatives January 6th Committee. In the course of its investigation, the Committee requested presidential records related to the events of January 6th, 2021, and Trump’s claims of election fraud. Trump argues that a federal [...]

Judge Amit Mehta of the District Court of the District of Columbia on Monday denied a motion to dismiss charges against 17 defendants accused of conspiring to disrupt an official proceeding of Congress during the January 6 Capitol riots. The 17 involved in this particular proceeding are all members or affiliates of the group called [...]

Devlyn Thompson of Seattle, Washington was sentenced Monday by a federal district court in Washington, DC for assaulting a police officer in a tunnel during the January 6 breach of the US Capitol. District Court Senior Judge Royce C. Lamberth sentenced Thompson to 46 months in prison. Thompson pleaded guilty on August 6 to assaulting, [...]

Robert Scott Palmer of Largo, Florida, was sentenced in federal court to 63 months in prison on Friday for assaulting law enforcement with dangerous weapons during the January 6 breach of the US Capitol. Palmer is the first defendant from the breach of the Capitol to be sentenced for assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers with [...]

A federal judge Thursday sentenced Eduard Florea, a New York man who applied to join a far-right group known as the Proud Boys, to 33 months in prison after he threatened the life of US Senator-elect Raphael Warnock ahead of the January 6 Capitol Riot. Florea was arrested on January 12 by FBI Special Agents and [...]

The District of Columbia (DC) filed a civil lawsuit Tuesday against Proud Boys International, LLC and The Oath Keepers, a non-profit organization. DC is seeking compensatory, statutory and punitive damages from the organizations for their involvement in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. The alleged aim of the attack was to prevent Congress [...]

The US District Court for the District of Columbia Tuesday sentenced a North Carolina man to 28 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to a federal felony charge regarding a threat he made against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The trial followed an FBI investigation and prosecution by the US Attorney’s Office for the District [...]

The Norwegian Data Protection Authority (DPA) Monday fined the popular queer dating app Grindr for sharing users’ personal data with third parties, including ad tech companies MoPub, Xandr, OpenX, AdColony and Smaato. The decision stems from a complaint filed by the Norwegian Consumer Council (NCC), a nonprofit organization, in January 2020 alleging that the app [...]

The Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol Sunday issued a report recommending a contempt of Congress charge against Mark Meadows, chief of staff to former President Donald Trump, for failing to comply with the Committee’s subpoena. The January 6 Committee was created by virtue of House Resolution 503 on [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Thursday unanimously denied former president Donald Trump’s effort to block the National Archives from turning over his White House records to the House of Representatives Committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot. On January 6, 2021, a mob of Trump supporters attacked the US [...]