U.S. Capitol Police have the job of protecting the neoclassical seat of democracy, its grounds and the 535 members of Congress. Every year, Capitol Police screen 1.4 million visitors and provide ...

A story circulating online in late April 2025 claimed U.S. Capitol police officers arrested the Rev. William Barber II, a civil rights activist and ordained minister in the Disciples of Christ ...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has reached a preliminary agreement to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit brought by the family of Ashli Babbitt over her shooting by an officer who was ...

The Capitol Police officer who shot her was cleared of wrongdoing, by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, which concluded that he acted in self-defense and in the defense of ...

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent ... Capitol Police officers were indicted on manslaughter charges in connection to the fatal shooting of a 25-year-old Black man (Getty ...

An internal investigation by the U.S. Capitol Police cleared the officer of wrongdoing in 2021 and said he would not face internal discipline.

The US Capitol Police Lieutenant Michael Byrd shot an unarmed Babbitt, 35, as she attempted to climb through a broken window of a barricaded door within the Capitol Building during the riot on Jan. 6.

Barber was arrested Monday, April 28, 2025, by U.S. Capitol Police in Washington, D.C., while praying for God’s intervention as Congress develops a federal budget opponents say will cut life ...