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Attorney General Merrick Garland intends to release part of special counsel Jack Smith's report about election interference charges against President-elect Donald Trump before he takes office, even though the charges were dismissed.But the government will withhold part of the report about classified documents, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.

A federal judge blocked the release of the entire report Tuesday, based on a request from two of Trump's co-defendants in the classified-documents case. But government lawyers argued in a filing at the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the restriction on the portion of the report about election interference charges was unnecessary and unjustified.

Smith prepared the report in two volumes, one about Trump's charges of election interference and one about the documents case. Department lawyers said Garland plans to release the volume on election charges, but the second volume about the classified documents would not be released publicly as long as charges remain pending against two of Trump's co-defendants.

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For the millions of Americans who watch the presidential inauguration every four years, the Lower West Terrace Tunnel of the U.S. Capitol is a familiar site.

The incoming president walks through that tunnel and on to the inaugural platform, before taking the oath of office.

On Jan. 6, 2021, it was a crime scene - the site of a bloody, hourslong struggle between law enforcement and a mob of supporters of President-elect Donald Trump.

"My fellow officers and I were punched, kicked, shoved, sprayed with chemical irritants by a violent mob," Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell testified to Congress about his experience in the tunnel on Jan. 6. "I could feel myself losing oxygen and recall thinking to myself: 'this is how I'm going to die - defending this entrance.'"

Joe Biden has signed into law a measure that boosts social security payments for current and former public employees – such as teachers, firefighters, police officers and other public-service workers – in what the White House has described as the first expansion of such benefits in 20 years.

“The bill I’m signing today is about a simple proposition: Americans who have worked hard all their lives … should be able to retire with economic security and dignity,” Biden said. “That’s the entire purpose of the social security system crafted by Franklin Delano Roosevelt nearly 90 years ago.”

As he fights multiple felony charges for allegedly assaulting law enforcement officers on Jan. 6, 2021, Tommy Tatum of Mississippi had hoped to attend Donald Trump’s inauguration later this month.

Prosecutors resisted that request, arguing Tatum could end up face-to-face with officers he's accused of attacking.

A federal judge agreed Tatum poses a potential threat, one of several recent rulings by judges barring Jan. 6 defendants from participating in events celebrating Trump’s return to office.

“Tatum’s alleged conduct was particularly violent,” U.S. District Judge John Bates wrote of the need to continue to restrict Tatum’s travel to the nation’s capital while he’s awaiting trial.

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After a mob of his supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, it looked like Donald Trump’s political career was over.