By German Lopez

• Stewart Rhodes and his far-right militia group, the Oath Keepers, helped orchestrate the riot. He and his followers said over text messages beforehand that Chinese agents had infiltrated the U.S. government and that Joe Biden might cede control of the country to the United Nations. Prosecutors said Rhodes had placed a “quick reaction force” of heavily armed Oath Keepers in a Virginia hotel — to rush into Washington with their weapons if called upon. A jury convicted him of seditious conspiracy, which requires proof of violent force against the government. A judge sentenced him to 18 years in prison.
• Julian Khater blasted chemical spray at a group of officers as the mob overran the police on the west side of the Capitol. One of the officers, Brian Sicknick, died the next day. A judge sentenced Khater to nearly seven years in prison.
• Albuquerque Cosper Head grabbed Officer Michael Fanone around the neck and told a crowd, “I got one!” Head then dragged Fanone down the Capitol steps and into the mob. Rioters beat, kicked and shot Fanone with a stun gun. A judge sentenced Head to seven and a half years in prison.
• Daniel Rodriguez fired the stun gun at Fanone’s neck, twice. He also sprayed a fire extinguisher at the police and shoved a wooden pole at a line of officers. A judge called him a “one-man army of hate” and sentenced him to more than 12 years in prison.
• David Dempsey punched and kicked police officers and attacked them with a flagpole, crutches, broken pieces of furniture and pepper spray. A judge sentenced him to 20 years in prison.
• Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the far-right Proud Boys, helped plan the attack. (He was not actually at the riot; officers arrested him days earlier for setting fire to a church’s Black Lives Matter banner.) A jury convicted him of seditious conspiracy, and a judge sentenced him to 22 years in prison.

• “It’s a miscarriage of justice”: Many of the officers injured in the Jan. 6 riot said they felt betrayed.
• A few Republicans in Congress also criticized Trump’s pardons. “I just can’t agree,” Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina said.
• Trump also pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the online drug marketplace Silk Road. Ulbricht, a Bitcoin pioneer, is a cult hero in the cryptocurrency world.

• Marco Rubio, the first member of Trump’s cabinet to be approved, was sworn in as secretary of state.
• The former sister-in-law of Pete Hegseth, Trump’s pick for defense secretary, told senators that Hegseth had been abusive to his ex-wife.
• Trump is moving quickly to appoint new leaders at U.S. attorney’s offices, a sign of how important prosecutors will be for his administration’s plans.

• The Trump administration fired the head of the Coast Guard, Adm. Linda Fagan, and said she had not done enough to stop drugs crossing the border. She was the first woman to lead a branch of the armed forces.
• Trump ordered federal agencies to place diversity, equity and inclusion officials on paid leave and to plan layoffs.
• He revoked Secret Service protection for John Bolton, his former national security adviser. Bolton said the U.S. had granted him security for life because Iran sought to kill him.
• Trump said he would impose a 10 percent tariff on Chinese imports from Feb. 1, describing the move as a response to fentanyl exports from China.
• The Trump administration, working with OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle, will invest at least $100 billion in A.I. infrastructure.
• Trump’s blizzard of executive orders asserts a muscular vision of presidential power, Charlie Savage writes.
• The president has promised to plant the American flag on Mars. That may be possible, but he left the specifics unclear.

• The Trump administration expanded immigration agents’ powers, allowing them to quickly deport certain undocumented immigrants.
• Attorneys general from 22 states sued to block Trump’s order attempting to limit birthright citizenship.
• Trump’s citizenship order conflicts with most scholars’ reading of the 14th Amendment, though at least one federal judge has appeared open to his interpretation.
• The order would also affect babies born to legal immigrants on student and work visas.
• At an inaugural prayer service, an Episcopal bishop asked Trump to show mercy to immigrants and L.G.B.T. children. The Trump and Vance families whispered and shook their heads.

• Trump, who often praises Vladimir Putin, said Putin was “destroying Russia” by waging war in Ukraine.
• Ukraine detained three military commanders it blames for losing territory.
• “It feels like they specifically came here to die”: North Korean troops fighting alongside Russia use distinctive tactics with little room for retreat.

• A winter storm broke snowfall records across the Gulf Coast, where snow is so rare that most cities don’t own plows.
• Officials said the storm had killed at least 10 people and caused hundreds of car crashes. Airlines canceled thousands of flights.
• In cities like Houston and New Orleans, many residents spent the day reveling in the most snow they had ever seen.
• Frosty beaches and a snowball fight in the in the French Quarter: See photos from across the region.

• The worst of the winds in Southern California is over, but the high risk of fire will persist across Los Angeles and Ventura Counties.
• Forecasters expect rain this weekend. It may help contain the fires, but rain on burned land can also bring landslides.
• The 17 people who died in the Eaton fire lived in an area where evacuation orders came hours later than elsewhere.

• Israel launched a military operation in Jenin, a city in the Israeli-occupied West Bank that is considered a hub of militancy. Shortly before the operation, Trump rescinded sanctions on Jewish settlers, and Jewish extremists attacked Palestinian villages.
• A fire at a ski resort hotel in Turkey killed at least 76 people. The cause was unclear.
• Prince Harry reached a settlement with Rupert Murdoch’s British tabloids over accusations of unlawful information gathering.
• “It took us a few minutes to accept that this pile of rubble was our home”: Here’s what one family found returning to their neighborhood in Gaza.
• More than a century after the Tulsa Race Massacre, the city is still debating what it owes to the victims’ descendants.