WASHINGTON — The long-awaited report by U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith offers a detailed account of former President Donald Trump’s attempts to retain power after losing the 2020 election and highlights his deteriorating relationship with Columbus native Vice President Mike Pence in the final weeks of his first administration.

Some members of the House Select Committee investigating the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 attacks are responding now that the Justice Department has published special counsel Jack Smith's final report.

CNN crime and justice correspondent Katelyn Polantz on Tuesday broke down damning evidence laid out in former special counsel Jack Smith's final report on President-elect Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Smith's report provides new details about election-interference charges against Trump, says he believes election victory saved him from conviction.

Trump ‘inspired his supporters to commit acts of physical violence’ on January 6 using false claims he knew to be untrue, says just-released report on his attempts to upend the 2020 presidential elect

In a sense, the release now of Smith’s report will simply signify the failure of the effort, over the last four years, of accountability and truth-telling about January 6th. It will be the last gasp, for now, of a lost cause.

Special Counsel Jack Smith has resigned from the Justice Department effective Friday, according to a court filing.

Part of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on his investigation into former US president Donald Trump has now been released.

Special counsel Jack Smith said his team “stood up for the rule of law” as it investigated President-elect Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, writing in a much-anticipated report released early Tuesday that he stands fully behind his decision to bring criminal charges he believes would have

Special Counsel Jack Smith's report on Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election results is damning, noting he would have been convicted.

Jack Smith held on to hope that he would be the one to finally hold Donald Trump to account for his assaults on the rule of law and American democracy. Bringing his experience prosecuting war criminals at the Hague to the Department of Justice,