Vice President Kamala Harris confirms Donald Trump's 2024 election win, four years after the Capitol attack. Lawmakers reflect on the threat to democracy.

In some ways, it’s like the insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021, that shook the foundations of American democracy, never happened. “It’s been erased,” said Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt. “Winners write history and Trump won.

President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday previewed a potentially disruptive agenda that could rock global affairs and the U.S. justice system.

With heavily armed security surrounding the quiet, snow-covered U.S. Capitol complex, federal lawmakers marked the anniversary of the violent Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the capital with a peaceful

We must never forget January 6 and ensure that such an attack on our democracy is never allowed to happen again,” U.S. Rep. Adam Smith said on X.

The United States Congress on Monday certified President-elect Donald Trump's election victory, a formality that was remarkable for its contrast to four years ago, when the Republican summoned a mob to Washington that ransacked the US Capitol.

Monday's meeting to certify the election comes amid efforts by President-elect Trump to downplay the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection.

Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) faced backlash after marking the anniversary of the Jan. 6 riots by thanking law enforcement for protecting lawmakers. In a Monday post on X, Fitzpatrick acknowledged the fourth anniversary of the riot.

Four years after Donald Trump's supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, security has been ramped up for Monday's election certification.

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, one of seven Senate Republicans who voted to convict Trump on impeachment charges after Jan. 6, said “it was a very, very dark time.” Some lawmakers, she said, “do want to really put that behind us.”

Trump will walk through the lower west tunnel — the location of some of the worst violence of the attack on Jan. 6, 2021 — to take the oath of office as the 47th p