Donald Trump will be sworn in as president in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Monday, after the forecast bitter cold prompted planners to move the ceremony under the building's neoclassical dome for the first time in four decades.

Friday in a sense was business as usual for a federal courthouse that has handled nearly 1,600 Jan. 6 cases. Still the day was charged with the extraordinary.

Typically criminal defendants are not allowed to return to the scene of their crimes while still under court supervision.

Thousands of Donald Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol after he lost the 2020 presidential election. Four years later, some of them are allowed to return to the nation’s capital so they can celebrate Mr Trump’s return to the White House.