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.

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.

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.

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.

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,

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.

It's been just a few days since Donald Trump began his second term as President of the United States, but U.S. Rep. John Garamendi is already disturbed with some of his actions. Earlier this week Garamendi wrote statements showing his disgust with the pardoning of Jan.

President Donald Trump’s pardons for more than 1,500 defendants has run into several snags and received some pushback from judges.

In his final hours as president, Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons for House committee members who investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and the police officers who testified before that committee.