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By Lexi Lonas - 01/16/21 11:36 AM EST   Two men arrested in connection with the Capitol riot last week claim that an officer shook their hands after they entered the building and told them, "It's your house now," according to the FBI. Robert Bauer and his cousin Edward Hemenway admitted to agents that they were among the scores of people who entered the building on Jan. 6, according to a complaint filed Thursday. Bauer, who is from Kentucky, told agents that he traveled with his wife to Washington, D.C., for the pro-Trump rally that day and that they stayed with Hemenway in Virginia...

Charges are being filed against hundreds of protesters in the wake of the Jan. 6 riots spurred on by President Trump, who has been impeached.

On Friday, AP reported that it had identified at least 21 current and former soldiers and law enforcement officers among the protesters who stormed the Capitol building...

Federal prosecutors said the actions of a man wearing a horned, fur headdress during last week's deadly attack at the U.S. Capitol made it clear that rioters planned to "capture and assassinate elected officials."

Beyond Impeachment, a Push for Ethics Laws That Do Not Depend on Shame Congressional Democrats and a slew of groups are preparing to push for the kinds of ethics and governance changes not seen since the post-Watergate era. President Trump’s conduct proved that many of the ethics rules related to the executive branch rely more on a president’s desire to avoid scandal than on enforceable law.Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times Published Jan. 11, 2021Updated Jan. 16, 2021 WASHINGTON — As House Democrats move toward punishing President Trump with a history-making second impeachment, t...