Photos: Scenes from the second anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot
Ceremonies were held Friday to commemorate the second anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., right, members of Congress and family of fallen officers pause for a moment of silence Friday in Washington on the second anniversary of the violent insurrection at the Capitol.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks during a ceremony marking the second anniversary Friday of the violent insurrection by supporters of then-President Donald Trump in Washington.
Serena Liebengood, center right, widow of U.S. Capitol Police officer Howard Liebengood, embraces Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., on Jan. 6, the second year anniversary of the violent insurrection by supporters of then-President Donald Trump, in Washington.
Incoming House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., accompanied by from left, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., incoming House Minority Whip Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Mass., Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., along with members of Congress and family of fallen officers, pauses for a moment of silence during a ceremony marking the second year anniversary of the violent insurrection by supporters of then-President Donald Trump, in Washington, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Shannon Terranova, the ex-wife of U.S. Capitol Police officer William "Billy" Evans, embraces her daughter Abigail Evans during a ceremony marking the second year anniversary of the violent insurrection by supporters of then-President Donald Trump, in Washington, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. William "Billy" Evans was killed in an attack near the Senate side of the Capitol building, where he was manning a barricade in April 2021. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Logan Evans, the son of U.S. Capitol Police officer William "Billy" Evans, meets with Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., after a ceremony marking the second year anniversary of the violent insurrection by supporters of then-President Donald Trump, in Washington, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
The Rev. Dr. Cassandra Gould, left, gathers with other Christian leaders for a prayer vigil Friday on Capitol Hill in Washington to mark the second anniversary of the Capitol riot.
Supporters of former President Donald Trump protest Jan. 6 outside the Supreme Court on the second anniversary of the assault on the U.S. Capitol.
President Joe Biden speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023, during a ceremony to mark the second anniversary of the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol and to award Presidential Citizens Medals to state and local officials, election workers and police officers for their "exemplary deeds of service for their country or their fellow citizens" in upholding the results of the 2020 election and fighting back the Capitol mob. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Gladys Sicknick and Charles Sicknick, mother and father of the late U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, look at the Presidential Citizens Medal that President Joe Biden posthumously awarded to their son during a ceremony to mark the second anniversary of the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol on Friday at the White House in Washington.
President Joe Biden awards the Presidential Citizens Medal, the nation's second-highest civilian honor, to former Washington Metropolitan Police Department officer Michael Fanone during a ceremony to mark the second anniversary of the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Former Arizona state House Speaker Rusty Bowers, left, speaks with U.S. Capitol Police Sgt. Harry Dunn in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023, during a ceremony to mark the second anniversary of the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol and to award Presidential Citizens Medals to state and local officials, election workers and police officers for their "exemplary deeds of service for their country or their fellow citizens" in upholding the results of the 2020 election and fighting back the Capitol mob. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Washington has one specialty that has long endured — memorializing and coming together over a national trauma. But that unifying impulse has faded. On Friday's second anniversary of the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, a moment of silence drew mostly Democrats.
Democratic lawmakers in a handful of states are trying to send a message two years after the violent attack on the U.S. Capito, saying people who engage in an attempted overthrow of the government shouldn’t be allowed to run it.
A New Jersey man who joined a mob's attack on the U.S. Capitol was sentenced Friday to more than six years in prison for using pepper spray to assault police officers, one of whom died a day after the siege.
A series of Jan. 6 defendants who — when up against possible prison time in court — expressed regret for joining the pro-Trump mob, struck a different tone or downplayed the riot after receiving their punishment.
The seditious conspiracy trial of five Proud Boys leaders charged in the Capitol riot has been going on for a month now in federal court in Washington, and bickering between lawyers and the judge has bogged things down.
A former Proud Boys member who pleaded guilty to plotting with group leaders to violently stop the transfer of presidential power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden told jurors Tuesday that he viewed their far-right extremist organization as “the tip of the spear” after the 2020 election.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy granted Carlson access to more than 40,000 hours of the Capitol security footage from Jan. 6. McCarthy's office said it is still working out the process to make the footage "more widely available" but did not comment further.
A growing number of Capitol rioters are facing hefty fines on top of prison sentences at their sentencing hearings. That's because prosecutors appear to be ramping up efforts to prevent them from profiting from their participation in the riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
A survey finds Americans on the right and the left overwhelmingly agree on several core values but only a minority of each group believes the other side shares them.
A former White House aide to President Donald Trump who was a prominent congressional witness against him and his allies in the wake of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol has a book deal.
U.S. officials say the Pentagon is developing plans to restructure the National Guard in Washington to address problems highlighted by the chaotic response to the Jan. 6 riot and safety breaches during the 2020 protests over the murder of George Floyd.
Liberal groups are trying to end Donald Trump's attempt to return to the White House by arguing he's ineligible to be president after trying to overturn the 2020 election.
Trump embraces the Jan. 6 rioters on the trail. In court, his lawyers hope to distance him from them
Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers have suggested their strategy in his election interference case in Washington involves distancing him from the horde of U.S. Capitol rioters, whom he has embraced on the campaign trail.
A federal judge has rejected Donald Trump’s effort to throw out his 2020 election subversion case in Washington, dismissing the Republican former president’s claims that he's immune from prosecution.
Former President Donald Trump will spend Saturday's third anniversary of the Capitol riot by holding two Iowa rallies. President Joe Biden plans to visit a site in Pennsylvania on Friday where advisers say the stop will highlight Trump's role in the Jan. 6 siege.
A network of supporters helped fugitives from Florida evade capture after the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, federal prosecutors say.
Some of Donald Trump's supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol nearly four years ago are cheering the president-elect's electoral victory and hoping for pardons.
Five years after the Capitol riot, some of the police officers who fought off the rioters that day say they're still struggling with what happened.
