A police officer injured by rioters at the US Capitol on Jan. 6 and a documentary filmmaker who captured events that day, will be witnesses in Thursday night’s opening televised hearing by a House committee investigating the attack.
The Uvalde school shooting, an upcoming Supreme Court decision on abortion, and federal immigration policies are all providing fodder for domestic extremists threatening violence to the US, officials say.
Senate Democrats said they were a bit more optimistic about a compromise with Republicans on gun-control legislation responding to the massacre of 19 elementary school children and two teachers in Texas. Then they left town for a 10-day recess.