Bennie Thompson said the Jan. 6 Committee that he chaired could serve "as a model" for Brazil to investigate its own insurrection.
President Lula called the attack an abominable act by “fascists” and said there was a suspected lack of security in Brasilia.
Thompson said that while the committee’s work was ending, there was still a long road ahead for the nation.
Bannon’s conviction is representative of how white supremacy inflicts harm but is rarely ever held to task.
Prosecuting far-right groups has tended to be very difficult.
While this isn’t the first attempt to reframe the attack on the capitol as something other than insurrection, disregarding the low turnout event could be a mistake.
Maryland man Uliyahu Hayah was arrested and charged for his alleged role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riots in what may be the first non-white person being held accountable for the violent insurrection that left five people dead.
Anna Morgan-Lloyd, a 49-year-old grandmother of five, got off essentially scot-free as part of a plea after verbalizing that "Schindler's List" and "Just Mercy" encouraged her to revisit her archaic frame of thinking.
Trump released two absurd statements on Friday stating he intends to run in 2024 after Facebook announced the details pertaining to his suspension from the platform.
Colorado Republican State Rep. Ron Hanks made a joke about lynching before defending a provision counting enslaved Africans as only three-fifths of a human being. Yes, seriously.
Capitol Police Capt. Carneysha Mendoza's harrowing testimony recalling the horrors she experienced during the insurrection and attempted coup at the U.S. Capitol seemed to resonate heavily.
Capitol Police Capt. Carneysha Mendoza was among the members of law enforcement testifying before the Senate about the response to the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Read her full testimony here.
