A Massachusetts man was discovered to be carrying a gun after attending a tour of the United States Capitol and leaving the nearby Library of Congress on Tuesday, the U.S. Capitol Police confirmed in a press release to Newsweek.

Local law enforcement is responding to President Trump's pardons for participants in the January 6 United States Capitol attack. Over 1,500 people are impacted, and about a dozen are from the Tri-State.

Several congressmen and women hosted former Capitol Police Officers following President Trump's decision to pardon Jan. 6 rioters.

The U.S. Secret Service and Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police found the man in a Washington hotel early Tuesday morning and interviewed him, sources said. They searched for a gun and found no weapon and no further action was taken at that time, they said.

The former assistant chief and acting chief of the U.S. Capitol Police voiced concerns about January 6th defendants receiving pardons from the incoming president.

Dunn and Gonell have been outspoken critics of Trump for inciting the riot and pledging to pardon members of the mob. Dunn left the Capitol Police for an unsuccessful bid for a U.

A man who entered the U.S. Capitol with a handgun in his possession and took a tour of the building faces weapons charges, police said Thursday. The 27-year-old Massachusetts man was arrested Tuesday after Capitol police officers found him leaving the Library of Congress and walking toward his car,

"I believe God used us for a greater good," January 6 rioter Joseph Fischer told Newsweek after he was pardoned by President Donald Trump.

More than 150 officers from the Capitol Police and the D.C. police were injured when a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol four years ago.

WASHINGTON — A Jan. 6 defendant has been rearrested on a firearm charge just one day after federal prosecutors moved to dismiss his Capitol riot case following President Donald Trump’s clemency order.

An El Paso man convicted in connection with the 2021 Capitol riot was released from prison after President Donald Trump's signed an executive order.

Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 47th president of the United States on Monday inside the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.