Chad Wolf, acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, announced his resignation Monday as federal authorities grapple with threats of violence in ahead of Inauguration Day.
The FBI warned U.S. Capitol Police about the potential for violence at the Capitol on Jan 6 and even visited more than a dozen extremists to encourage them not to attend the planned protest.
President Trump supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday could face charges of seditious conspiracy, rioting and insurrection, Justice Department officials.
The FBI is investigating President Trump supporters who incited violence and stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, causing federal lawmakers and employees to flee.
The Secret Service agents who previously worked with President-elect Joe Biden when he was vice president will return to the White House to serve in his presidential detail in the coming weeks.
President Trump has pardoned two more former Trump aides and associates ensnared in Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation of Russian election inference.
Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen will succeed outgoing Attorney General William Barr after President Trump announced the resignation in a tweet Monday afternoon.
A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed the three-year-old criminal case against Michael Flynn, President Trump’s former national security adviser, following Trump’s pardon last month.
