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Trump asks for recusal of judge in election conspiracy case
Trump's motion, which was filed on Monday, argued that the judge should step aside due to past statements she said about him that demonstrated bias.
The punishment for Ethan Nordean, 32, matched the longest sentence yet in Capitol attack cases with 18 years, while Dominic Pezzola, 45, who was convicted on lesser charges, was handed a 10-year sentence.
The date, a full two years before the defence team's proposal, is the eve of 'Super Tuesday', when more than a dozen states will pick between Trump and one of his rivals to be the 2024 Republican presidential nominee.
The founder of the far-right Oath Keepers militia, Stewart Rhodes, was handed the 18-year sentence for sedition on Thursday in the Capitol attack - an effort by Trump supporters on 6 January 2021 to forcefully prevent Biden from becoming president.
The man drove his car into a barricade, fired shots into the air before turning his gun on himself, police said.
Committee chairman Bennie Thompson, speaking at the televised finale of a series of public hearings, said Trump "recklessly blazed a path of lawlessness and corruption" as he sought to overturn the results of the 2020 US election.
Appearing in a pre-recorded deposition at a congressional hearing into the 2021 assault on the US Capitol, former attorney general Bill Barr described his then-boss as having no interest in the facts that debunked his groundless narrative.
In a prime-time presentation of its findings from a year-long probe, the special committee sought to persuade a divided country of the existence of a deep-rooted and ongoing plot, orchestrated by the former president, to overturn the result of the 2020 election won by Joe Biden.
In the first of six made-for-TV presentations, the panel of lawmakers will aim to demonstrate that the president and his inner circle committed felonies in a criminal conspiracy to overturn his 2020 election defeat to Joe Biden that culminated in the violence of January 6, 2021.
Donald Trump delivered a crowd-pleasing speech to thousands of adoring supporters in Arizona, insisting yet again that he won the 2020 US presidential election.
As President Joe Biden delivered a speech assailing Donald Trump for the mayhem, people who participated in the events of January 6, 2021 gave AFP their accounts of a day that shocked the world.
Joe Biden's decision to use his speech on the anniversary to squarely blame Donald Trump and Republican allies for their role in the unprecedented attack on US democracy will mark a sharp escalation in Biden's approach to Trump and the riot.
From the COVID pandemic to the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and extreme weather, we look back on the key events of 2021.
US media reported that a man in a pickup truck made the bomb threat, and that law enforcement and the FBI have dispatched negotiators to try to engage the suspect.
The two-year ban will be effective from January 7, when Trump was booted off the platform, and comes after Facebook's independent oversight board said the indefinite ban should be reviewed.
The troops were mobilised after hundreds of supporters of then-president Donald Trump stormed the Capitol, halting the joint session to confirm Trump's rival Joe Biden as winner of the presidential election.
Major Christopher Warnagiris is the first active duty military officer to be charged over the attack, in which several hundred Trump backers stormed the seat of the US legislature and shut down a session confirming Joe Biden as the winner of the November presidential election.
The board said Donald Trump "created an environment where a serious risk of violence was possible" with his comments regarding the January 6 rampage by his supporters at the US Capitol.
Officers James Blassingame and Sidney Hemby said they suffered 'physical and emotional injuries' in the riot they said was fomented by Trump, when he was in his final weeks as president and refusing to accept his election defeat.