On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Justice moved to drop a charge against January 6 riot defendant Taylor Taranto following a June Supreme Court ruling regarding the application of the federal ...

A Jan. 6 rioter who was convicted of assaulting police with a deadly weapon, including an officer who was knocked unconscious as she tried to stop the attack on the U.S. Capitol, was sentenced to ...

A Kentucky man who was the first rioter to enter the U.S. Capitol during a mob’s attack on the building was sentenced on Tuesday to more than four years in prison. A police officer who tried to ...

A rioter who hurled bricks and lit arrows at police officers during disorder outside a hotel has been detained for three ...

Law enforcement officials are searching for a convicted U.S. Capitol rioter who failed to report to prison earlier this summer to begin serving his nine-month sentence and has not surfaced for weeks.

A rioter who shouted in a police dog’s face has been sent to prison for 20 months. Bradley McCarthy, 34, joined an anti-immigration march and was involved in clashes with counter-protesters and ...

The first rioter to enter the Capitol building during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack was on Tuesday sentenced to just under four and a half years in prison for his role in the riot. Michael Sparks ...

Before joining Raw Story, Brad Reed spent eight years writing about technology at BGR.com and Network World. Prior to that, he wrote freelance stories for political publications such as AlterNet ...

A judge sentenced Kentuckian Michael Sparks, the first rioter to breach the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, this week to more than four years in prison. A federal judge in Washington sentenced ...

A Kentucky man who was the first rioter to enter the U.S. Capitol during a mob’s attack on the building was sentenced on Tuesday to more than four years in prison. A police officer who tried to ...