Capitol Building (Washington, DC)
Things to Do in Washington, D.C.
Visitors are back in Washington, for all the reasons they came before. Gaggles of school groups and tour buses are on the National Mall, enjoying the green space and the museums. Demonstrators are marching. Convention centers have 19 large-scale events scheduled this year, with the largest — booked by the Association of the United States […]
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‘Late Show’ Producers Arrested at U.S. Capitol While Filming
The police at the United States Capitol have arrested members of a production team for the CBS show “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” who were filming a segment featuring a salty canine puppet voiced by the comedian Robert Smigel. The Capitol Police said on Friday that they had arrested seven people in a hallway […]
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‘I’ve Had It With This Guy’: G.O.P. Leaders Privately Blasted Trump After Jan. 6
In the days after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol building, the two top Republicans in Congress, Representative Kevin McCarthy and Senator Mitch McConnell, told associates they believed President Trump was responsible for inciting the deadly riot and vowed to drive him from politics. Mr. McCarthy went so far as to say he would […]
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Blaming Trump, Jan. 6 Suspect Says He Fell Down a ‘Rabbit Hole’ of Lies
Instead, at his trial this week, Mr. Shamansky has painted Mr. Thompson as an impressionable man who filled his days of pandemic-driven isolation with a steady diet of election fraud conspiracy theories. Mr. Thompson agreed that a “perfect storm” of circumstances, as Mr. Shamansky put it, had caused him to fall prey to Mr. Trump’s […]
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Truckers Protesting Covid Mandates Amass Outside the Capital
One group of truckers called the People’s Convoy that left California more than a week ago made it to the East Coast and was stationed on Saturday in Hagerstown, Md., about 70 miles northwest of the capital, converging with other drivers and their supporters — opening up the possibility that the convoy could move into […]
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Painter of Elijah Cummings Portrait Finds It’s a Career-Changer
One Baltimore son has painted another. When Representative Elijah E. Cummings died in October 2019 at age 68, he became the first African American elected official to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol, where he served for more than two decades in the House of Representatives from Maryland’s 7th District. In January, the congressman’s […]
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