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Jan. 6 charges target US extremists
Stewart Rhodes — founder and leader of the extremist group Oath Keepers — was arrested Thursday on a charge of seditious conspiracy, accused of guiding a monthslong effort to unleash politically motivated violence to prevent the swearing-in of US President Biden that culminated in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. 214