Aftermath of the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol

A few hundred protesters turned up on Sept. 18 in Washington to rally in support of the pro-Trump rioters who ransacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, but they were outnumbered by a robust security presence and journalists.

Facebook suspended former U.S. President Donald Trump from its platform and his Instagram account until Jan. 7, 2023, saying they will be "only reinstated if conditions permit."

On May 5, the company's Oversight Board upheld Facebook's suspension of Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts because of his alleged role in riots at the Capitol building on Jan. 6.

A Capitol Police officer has died after a man rammed a car into two officers at a barricade outside the U.S. Capitol and then emerged wielding a knife. It was the second line-of-duty death this year for a department still struggling to heal from the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Security has been tightened at the US Capitol in Washington in response to "a possible plot to breach" the building.

The move was prompted by intelligence that a militia group planned the attack for 4 March - the day conspiracy theorist group QAnon believes Donald Trump will return for a second term.

Missed intelligence was to blame for the outmanned Capitol defenders' failure to anticipate the violent mob that invaded the iconic building and halted certification of the presidential election on Jan. 6, the officials who were in charge of security that day said in their first public testimony on the insurrection.