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Transcripts released by the House Jan. 6 committee showed nearly two dozen witnesses invoking their right against self-incrimination, underscoring the hurdles to the investigation.

Cassidy Hutchinson recounted to the House select committee how a lawyer with ties to former President Donald J. Trump said to her that she should “focus on protecting the president.”

Democrats and Republicans managed to come together to update the archaic Electoral Count Act after they recognized it could again be abused to subvert the presidential vote.

Tom Marino, one of the first members of Congress to support Trump, now says the G.O.P. “has to do whatever it has to do” to get away from him.

Stefan Passantino, who represented Cassidy Hutchinson in the early stages of the House select committee’s investigation, took a leave of absence from his law firm.

A historian of the conflict traces the path to disunion in the 1850s — and the lessons it holds for our own era of deep division.

Former President Donald Trump’s current woes extend beyond the report by the House Jan. 6 committee, but the case the panel laid out against him further complicates his future.

The House Jan. 6 committee focused almost exclusively on former President Donald J. Trump. The panel’s legacy will most likely be determined by the federal prosecutors in the coming months.

The committee also accused the former president of three other federal crimes, including conspiracy to defraud the United States. Five Trump allies were referred as well.

The panel included 17 specific findings in the executive summary of its final report.