WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., announced Wednesday the creation of a select subcommittee to investigate events before and after Jan.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is signaling that she is poised to create a new committee to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, pushing closer to a partisan investigation of the attack ...

After Senate Republicans blocked plans for an outside commission to investigate the Capitol attack, the House voted to create a special panel for a new investigation. It was a largely partisan vote.

Democrats have wanted the panel to focus solely on the events of Jan. 6. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and other key Republicans have yet to sign off on the plan.

It also got significantly ahead of a parallel Justice Department investigation into the events of Jan. 6, with federal prosecutors later interviewing many of the same witnesses Congress had spoken to.

Members of the Jan. 6 committee say the obstacles thrown up by Mr. Trump and his allies and the high stakes of the investigation have left the panel with no choice but to use every tool at its ...

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., announced Wednesday the creation of a new select subcommittee to investigate events before and after Jan.