Do you have a question for the Civics 101 team? Submit it here! With the January 6th insurrection at the Capitol Building, the United States Capitol Police (USCP) have been thrust into the spotlight.

The US Capitol was the scene of violent protests when an angry mob of Trump supporters stormed the building, causing it to be put under lockdown.

A jury last week ordered a Jan. 6 Capitol insurrectionist to pay the widow of a D.C. officer $500,000, finding that he had assaulted the officer during the Capitol riot. The jury ordered that ...

The United States Capitol, much like this city's other architectural glory, the National Cathedral, is as much a work in progress as a finished product. Completed nearly a century and a half ago ...

Gradually, a magnificent building—the United States Capitol—took shape on Thornton's papers. The structure, he believed, would rise as a shrine to republican government.

U.S. Capitol Building Facts - A Glance On 6 January 2021, the United States Capitol was attacked by a mob of rioters in an effort to prevent Congress from formalizing Joe Biden’s victory ...

The United State Capitol dome is situated above the United States Capitol building in Washington, D.C. The Capitol dome was designed by Thomas Ustick Walter (1804-1887), the fourth Architect of the ...

The final few tense seconds before protestors breached the United States Capitol building on Wednesday, there was all-out chaos throughout the Capitol complex as Capitol Police, guns drawn ...

The first “trains” on the Russell Subway line, connecting the Capitol Building to the Russell Senate Office building launched in 1901 and were actually battery-powered Studebaker cars with a ...

U.S. Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger released a statement on Sunday, February 27, 2022, announcing fencing will be placed around the Capitol ahead of President Biden's State of the Union address.