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The House select committee investigating the Capitol riot said Thursday that Vice President Mike Pence was in danger after he rebuffed President Donald Trump’s scheme to stop the election of Joe Biden. The committee also revealed that the lawyer who devised the scheme, John Eastman, asked for a pardon before Trump left office. Pence turned back entreaties by Trump...

Former President Donald Trump is expected to hold a rally in support of Rep. Mary Miller next weekend, but he has yet to lend his support to any of the candidates currently running for Illinois governor.

Day two of hearings by the Jan. 6 committee focused on how those around former President Trump told him he lost the 2020 election. But instead, according to the committee, he embraced his attorney Rudy Guiliani and false claims the election was stolen. NBC 5’s Mary Ann Ahern reports.

A White House lawyer said he responded to efforts to overturn the election by telling an attorney for the president, “Are you out of your effing mind?” Eric Herschmann said that was how he responded to John Eastman, the lawyer who developed the strategy to overturn President Donald Trump’s loss to Joe Biden. “I said I only want to...

The House committee investigating the riot that swept over the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, began presenting a case Thursday that Donald Trump knew he lost the 2020 presidential election but continued to falsely claim that it had been stolen from him while he worked to change the results.

Ivanka Trump acknowledged that she had been persuaded by statements by the former attorney general, William Barr, that talk of election fraud was false.

Republican Liz Cheney, the vice chair of the committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot, said former President Donald Trump refused to call off his supporters, even when they began chanting, “Hang Mike Pence.”

Former President Donald Trump is dangling the prospect of pardons for supporters who participated in the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol if he returns to the White House

Alvin Bragg has already notched one historic first, being sworn in Saturday as Manhattan’s first Black district attorney

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol issued subpoenas on Monday to Roger Stone and Alex Jones, among other high-profile allies of former President Donald Trump, for their possible connection to the riot.

The United States Football League is relaunching four decades after the spring league shook up professional football in the mid-1980s

A Peoria man has been indicted on federal charges after allegedly threatening to commit violence against several high-profile public officials, including former President Donald Trump and the former U.S. Attorney for Illinois’ Central District. According to a press release, Damien Grant, 33, is facing three counts of influencing a federal official by threat, along with multiple counts of mailing threatening…

The number of vaccinated Americans is rising, but the country’s top infectious disease expert is concerned about Americans who are reluctant to be vaccinated. Polls suggest supporters of former President Trump are more likely to decline vaccination.

The U.S. attorney for northern Illinois appointed by former President Donald Trump won’t be forced to resign as originally planned, the White House says.

House managers have wrapped up their arguments in the impeachment trial of former President Trump, and NBC 5’s Mary Ann Ahern breaks down what we saw on Thursday.

A series of disturbing surveillance videos showed the chaotic moments that political leaders, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former VP Mike Pence ran for cover as rioters stormed the Capitol. NBC 5’s Alex Maragos has the details on the first day of the prosecution’s presentation at former President Trump’s impeachment trial.

It was an eventful day in Washington as lawmakers discussed whether an impeachment trial for former President Trump was constitutional, setting the stage for a bitter fight in the Senate. NBC 5’s Alex Maragos has the details.

President Donald Trump spent the final day of his presidency in the White House, while President-elect Joe Biden prepared for his inauguration with a somber ceremony in the nation’s capital. NBC 5’s Alex Maragos has more.

With just days left in President Donald Trump’s administration, published reports say he is considering up to 100 pardons before he leaves office Wednesday, leaving some in Washington to wonder what the president’s final days in office will look like. The out-going president is expected to announce his decision Tuesday. The questions of just how many pardons or commutations might...

With just days left in President Donald Trump’s administration, published reports say he is considering up to 100 pardons before he leaves office Wednesday, leaving some in Washington to wonder what the president’s final days in office will look like. NBC 5 Political Reporter Mary Ann Ahern has the details.