Anumita Kaur is a journalist for the Los Angeles Times, based out of the Washington, D.C., bureau. Kaur was born and raised in California. She graduated from UC Santa Barbara, where she studied sociology and history. Prior to joining The Times in November 2021, she was a reporter for Pacific Daily News on Guam, where her work spanned just about everything, but brought particular focus onto the island’s U.S. military presence. She is a member of the 2021-22 Los Angeles Times Fellowship class.
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The Jan. 6 hearings, which had been scheduled to wrap up Thursday, may stretch well into the summer, a committee member says.
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The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack will send copies of its witness interviews to the Department of Justice ‘in due time,’ chairman says.
The violent mob that spilled into the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was at times dangerously close to then-Vice President Mike Pence, posing an immediate threat to his life, according to testimony during Thursday’s Jan. 6 hearing.
“If the courts did not step in to resolve this, there was nobody else to resolve this,” Pence’s chief counsel Greg Jacob said in testimony Thursday before the Jan. 6 House select committee. “…That issue might well then have to be decided in the streets.”
Trump ‘became frustrated, and he replaced his campaign’s legal team,’ said Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose), who helped lead the presentation at Monday’s hearing alongside Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and Vice Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.).
Lofgren and the other members of the panel will continue to detail the execution of what has become known as “the Big Lie,” arguing that Trump knew his claims of fraud in the 2020 election were false and propagated them anyway.
The hearing, taking place in prime time after over 10 months of closed-door investigations, marks the committee’s initial report to the American public and places responsibility for the attack on then-President Trump.
Lawmakers heard heart-wrenching testimony on the nation’s gun violence, with parents, a pediatrician and experts pleading for change.
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