Politics

FBI, ATF, regional law enforcement and National Guard personnel responded to the Capitol on Wednesday after it was breached by pro-Trump extremists.

Biden was expected to deliver remarks on the economy but instead addressed the protesters who forcefully stormed the U.S. Capitol to prevent Congress from certifying Biden's election win.

After the president addressed the crowd gathered to protest President-elect Joe Biden's win, Trump supporters pushed past barriers onto the Capitol grounds.

"Our democracy would enter a death spiral," Mitch McConnell said of a scenario in which Congress might overturn election results.

The president spoke before supporters at a rally on the Ellipse as Congress began ceremonial counting of electoral votes.

But there are some crucial differences between the 1876 electoral controversy and today's election.

The vice president said he believes "the Constitution constrains me from claiming unilateral authority to determine which electoral votes should be counted and which should not."

Arizona is the first of what is expected to be at least three challenges by GOP lawmakers attempting to overturn the results of the presidential election.

The federal appeals judge was spurned when Democrats supported him as a Supreme Court justice. Now the incoming Biden administration wants him to lead what it calls reform at the Justice Department.