Jan 6 pipe bombs and Hur report under scrutiny as Trump and Biden close in on nominations: Live

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On Tuesday, a US House of Representatives committee will hold a hearing on a three-year unsolved mystery: The 6 January pipe bombs.

During the Capitol riots on 6 January 2021, authorities identified two pipe bombs in Washington DC: one outside the Democratic National Committee (DNC) building, the other outside the Republican National Committee (RNC) building.

As of March 2024, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) still has not released a suspect’s name.

Now, the House Administration Committee’s oversight subcommittee will conduct the hearing, titled “Three Years Later: Assessing the Law Enforcement Response to Multiple Pipe Bombs on January 6, 2021,” on 12 March.

This comes as Special Counsel Robert Hur will also appear at a hearing on Tuesday. He’s set to testify before the House Judiciary Committee after releasing a scathing and much-criticised report into President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents which led to no charges.

Meanwhile, Mr Biden and former president Donald Trump exchanged criticisms at their competing rallies in Georgia on Saturday ahead of the Tuesday primary.

Mr Biden won the state by a slim margin in 2020, the first Democratic presidential candidate to win the state since Bill Clinton in 1992.

Georgia has emerged as one of the nation’s premier swing states in recent years. And both candidates are eager to put up a strong showing and flex their organizational muscle in what is effectively a dress rehearsal for November’s far more consequential general election.

The state was a pivotal battleground in 2020 — so close that Trump finds himself indicted here for his push to “find 11,780 votes” and overturn Biden’s