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In an edited video released on Twitter one day later, President Donald Trump defended his response to the US Capitol riots, saying he "immediately deployed the National Guard." CNN's Dana Bash says that claim is not true.

President Donald Trump has been asking aides and lawyers, including White House counsel Pat Cipollone, about his self-pardon power, multiple sources told CNN.

Federal investigators are looking at everyone involved in the unrest at the US Capitol on Wednesday, including the role President Donald Trump played in inciting the crowd, the acting US attorney in Washington, DC, said Thursday.

CNN's Kaitlan Collins reports on the fallout for President Donald Trump in Washington, DC, following the riots at the US Capitol.

Former White House chief of staff John Kelly said that if he were a member of President Donald Trump's Cabinet he would support using the 25th Amendment to the Constitution to remove the President from office following a deadly riot at the US Capitol.

Facebook's restrictions on President Donald Trump's account will continue for at least the next two weeks and perhaps "indefinitely," CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a blog post on Thursday.

CNN's Brianna Keilar says that Republican lawmakers who support President Trump have fueled the language and conspiracy theories that led to the riots at the US Capitol.

As hundreds of supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol, breaking windows and wreaking havoc, politicians and activists were among the many who drew comparisons between the police response on Wednesday to that of last year's Black Lives Matter protests.

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said in a statement Thursday that she is resigning, becoming the first Cabinet member to leave the administration in the wake of President Donald Trump's response to a mob of his supporters breaching the US Capitol.

Josh Hawley looked like he had seen a ghost.

The mob of Trump supporters who stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday included conspiracy theorists linked to QAnon and the Proud Boys -- two right-wing extremist factions that President Donald Trump repeatedly refused to condemn during his election campaign last year.

You might think that after violent insurrectionists egged on by Donald Trump stormed and commandeered the Capitol on Wednesday that Republicans might, finally, disavow the President's wild fantasies about how he actually won the election in a "landslide."

Van Jones discusses the riot at the US Capitol and what message the police reaction sends to young people about racial disparity in the US.

After violent pro-Trump protesters stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday, a growing number of Republican leaders told CNN that they believe Donald Trump should be removed from office before January 20. Four of them called for the 25th Amendment to be invoked, and two others said the President should be impeached.

President Donald Trump's history of offering a wink and a nod, if not outright support, to his far-right base is well-documented.

What more does it take? President Donald Trump has brought the country to depths of division, unrest and instability that once would have been unthinkable -- even if they were completely predictable. The entire world watched aghast as a mob of Trump supporters, whipped into a frenzy by the President's incitement, stormed the US Capitol, smashing windows, forcing a lockdown and bringing a temporary end to a constitutionally mandated affirmation of President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the November election.

After rioting by a pro-Trump mob at the Capitol delayed proceedings, President-elect Joe Biden's path to inauguration on January 20 is clear.

President Donald Trump publicly acknowledged that he would leave office on January 20 for the first time Thursday, pledging an orderly transfer of power after Congress affirmed President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College win.

This is shaping up to be a good year for Beijing.

Supporters of President Donald Trump breached the US Capitol on Wednesday while Congress was meeting to certify the Electoral College's votes for president and vice president.

A HuffPost reporter captured the moment when pro-Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building.

The Capitol building hasn't been breached since the War of 1812, when British soldiers burned Washington.

Three years, 11 months and 17 days after President Donald Trump warned from the West Front of the US Capitol that "American carnage stops right here," the very spot he stood was engulfed by his own protesters bringing carnage of their own.

World leaders and top diplomats have issued strong condemnations of rioters who stormed the US Capitol building in Washington, some pressing President Donald Trump to call off the violence. CNN's Clarissa Ward has the latest.

President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday said the rioting at the US Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump amounted to an "unprecedented assault" on US democracy, and called for Trump to immediately go on national television and demand an end to the "siege."

The US Capitol is on lockdown amid a tense situation with demonstrators outside the building, according to Capitol police officers, as President Donald Trump's supporters attempt to break into the building while lawmakers count the Electoral College votes certifying President-elect Joe Biden's win.

Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) describes tense moment inside Congress building as rioters breach the US Capitol in protest of the 2020 election.

CNN's Van Jones condemns President Trump and his supporters over breaching of the US Capitol during a joint session of Congress.

CNN's Wolf Blitzer and Jake Tapper react to pro-Trump rioters storming the US Capitol as Congress met to finalize President-elect Joe Biden's election victory.

President-elect Joe Biden has decided to nominate Judge Merrick Garland as attorney general, people familiar with the matter tell CNN, a long-awaited decision that was moved toward completion Wednesday as it became apparent that Democrats were on the brink of winning control of the Senate.