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Acting U.S. Attorney Michael Sherwin said Tuesday federal prosecutors may bring significant charges, including sedition and conspiracy, as a result of last week s riot at the U.S. Capitol. Sarah Silbiger/Pool/AP
Updated at 5:35 p.m. ET
Last week s storming of the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob has already resulted in charges against 70 people, according to the acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, who said he expects the number will grow into the hundreds.
In the first public briefing by the Justice Department and the FBI since Wednesday s riot, acting U.S. Attorney Michael Sherwin and Steven D Antuono, director of the FBI s Washington Field Office, outlined what Sherwin called a long-term investigation.
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GOP legislators were relentlessly mocked on Twitter after a number of the reportedly refused to go through metal detectors that had been installed at the entrances of the Capitol as a security measure. For the first time in the history of the Capitol, on Tuesday, metal detectors were installed at the entrances after the federal building was breached by a pro-Trump mob on January 6 and after a first-term Republican said she would bring her gun to Congress. Although magnetometers have been used for years at all visitor and staff entrances of the Capitol, lawmakers sporting congressional pins have been historically allowed to go around those security screenings. However, all that changed on Tuesday in accordance with a decision made by the House sergeant-at-arms.