January 2021 in the United States

On January 6, 2021, Ashli Babbitt was fatally shot during the attack on the United States Capitol. She was part of a mob of supporters of then-outgoing U.S. president Donald Trump who stormed the United States Capitol seeking to overturn his defeat in the 2020 presidential election. At the time of her killing, Babbitt was a 35-year-old United States Air Force veteran and a supporter of QAnon, a far-right conspiracy theory.

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second impeachment trial of Donald Trump in the United States Senate

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2020–2021 transition of the U.S. presidency from Donald Trump to Joe Biden

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