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Members of the Oath Keepers on the East Front of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)

Extremists who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 turn their attention from national to local politics

NBC senior reporter Brandy Zadrozny explains what's happened to the extremist groups and their online networks in the past year.

Rep. Pete Welch. (Lauren Victoria Burke/AP)

Vermont Democrat reflects on fleeing the Capitol on Jan. 6 riot, one year later

Vermont Democrat Peter Welch was among the lawmakers stuck in the House balcony as the angry mob approached.

Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, pictured on Capitol Hill Wednesday, said of the attack on the Capitol last year, "Anyone who commits an act of violence should be prosecuted, and anyone who assaults a law enforcement officer should go to jail for a very long time."

Republicans criticize Ted Cruz for calling Jan. 6 a violent terrorist attack

"Of all the things that Jan. 6 was, it was definitely not a violent terrorist attack," Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson said in reply to Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.

The January 6 attack on the Capitol raised alarm bells for a think tank studying democracy.

Iowa Republican members of Congress are up for re-election. Here’s how they talk about the Capitol insurrection one year later.

The insurrection at the United States Capitol was one year ago Thursday. Supporters of former President Donald Trump tried to overturn the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. Republicans in Congress from Iowa have been careful over the last 12 months how they talk about what happened.

Mary Venus, a nurse from the Philippines, on duty at Billings Clinic in Billings, Mont.

Short-staffed and COVID-battered, U.S. hospitals are hiring more foreign nurses

Montana's largest hospital recently signed employment contracts with two dozen foreign nurses. Nationwide, a backlog of 5,000 international nurses await approval to enter the U.S.

Read President Biden's Jan. 6 speech in full

Biden blasted former President Donald Trump in an address from the U.S. Capitol on the anniversary of the insurrection.

Security fencing has been reinstalled around the Capitol on Sept. 16, 2021, ahead of a planned Sept. 18 rally by far-right supporters of former President Donald Trump who are demanding the release of rioters arrested in connection with the Jan. 6 insurrection. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

'Dark day on the calendar of American history': Historian explains how Jan. 6 will be remembered

Rice University historian Douglas Brinkley reflects on how history will view the Capitol attack.

Biden calls insurrection 'a dagger at the throat of democracy' one year after Jan. 6 attack

While Democrats made calls for unity in the defense of Democracy, the country remains divided.

The voices of those who experienced the Jan. 6 Capitol attack firsthand

The insurrection affected many people — residents, elected officials and their staff, journalists, and the police who were called in to protect them.

In this Nov. 1, 2017, file photo traffic along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington streaks past the Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters building.

A man who allegedly stole hundreds of unpublished book manuscripts now faces charges

For nearly five years, Filippo Bernardini allegedly impersonated people in the book publishing industry, stealing unpublished manuscripts and notes, including from a Pulitzer Prize winner.

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