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Trump doubles down on voiding Biden autopen actions, including pardons and commutations

President Donald Trump said all "Documents, Proclamations, Executive Orders, Memorandums, or Contracts" signed by former President Biden's autopen are "void," including pardons and commutations.

I asked if Trump Derangement Syndrome is real: I got the death threats in reply proving it is

As soon as I posted a column about examples of TDS I've seen in...

Trump’s ultimatum for Maduro: Letters to the Editor — Dec. 3, 2025

NY Post readers discuss President Trump telling Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro to resign or face...

Vetting in All the Wrong Places

We need to understand the limitations of vetting and adjust our immigration policies accordingly.

Texas AG Launches Investigation into Chinese Fashion Giant Shein

Ken Paxton is investigating Shein’s supply chains and manufacturing practices to determine whether it...

Vance says he gives ‘a lot of credit’ to moderate Democrats in shutdown negotiations

Vice President JD Vance said on Thursday that he gives credit to the moderate Senate Democrats who the administration worked with during negotiations to end the government shutdown.  “I do give a lot of credit to the moderate Democrats who were with us from the very beginning,” Vance told Fox News host Sean Hannity.  “If...

House committee sets hearing on congressional stock trading ban

The Committee on House Administration will hold a hearing next Wednesday on banning congressional stock trading, which could lead to reforming the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act. The hearing, called "Taking Stock of the STOCK Act" and led by House Administration Committee Chair Bryan Steil (R-Wis.), will determine policy options to take into...

Nevada’s top court revives state’s ‘fake electors’ case in Clark County

Nevada’s top court on Thursday evening revived the state’s criminal case against the six “fake electors” who falsely claimed President Trump won the state's 2020 presidential election. A fight over venue had tied the prosecution up for more than a year. Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford (D) filed his original case in Democratic-leaning Clark County, which includes Las...

Trump moves controversial nominee Ingrassia to GSA post

President Trump has tapped Paul Ingrassia to be deputy general counsel at the General Services Administration (GSA), less than a month after Ingrassia withdrew his nomination as head of the Office of Special Counsel over racist comments. "Paul Ingrassia is a very helpful addition to GSA and will successfully execute President Trump’s America First policies," a...

Graham says he’ll sue DOJ for $500K over phone records

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Thursday he will sue the Department of Justice (DOJ) for $500,000 over investigators obtaining his phone records during special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into President Trump’s alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The Senate, in its proposal to reopen the government, included a provision allowing senators...

Mangione attorneys reject characterization of his mother’s statement

Defense attorneys representing Luigi Mangione on Thursday accused prosecutors and the New York Police Department's (NYPD) chief of detectives of not providing evidence of a purported statement made by Mangione's mother. In December 2024, Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said at a press conference that Mangione's mother allegedly told San Francisco police that the shooting...

Trump opens up more Arctic drilling

{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Trump cuts protections for Arctic lands The Trump administration is restoring oil and gas drilling on millions of acres in the Arctic that had been blocked off by former President Biden, it announced Thursday. © U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP, File The administration issued...

Democrats pivot to affordability

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care   The Big Story Democrats pivot to affordability After failing to win an extension of ObamaCare’s enhanced subsidies in the government shutdown, Democrats are taking aim at broader health care costs, hoping to use it as a line of attack against Republicans. © Photo...

The Memo: Looming House vote deepens Trump’s Epstein woes

The Jeffrey Epstein saga is bad and getting worse for President Trump. A House vote looms, likely next week, on whether the Department of Justice should release all the Epstein files in its possession. The measure might well pass. Passage in the House would not come close to guaranteeing the files would actually be released....

Hegseth announces operation ‘Southern Spear’ to quash ‘narco-terrorists’ 

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Thursday evening a new operation dubbed “Southern Spear” to quash “narco-terrorists” in the Western Hemisphere. Hegseth said the mission is being led by Joint Task Force Southern Spear and U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) to defend the “Homeland, removes narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere, and secures our Homeland from the drugs...

Pennsylvania abandons Northeast climate pact

Pennsylvania will no longer seek to be part of a regional climate agreement among states in the Northeast U.S. A recent budget deal ends the commonwealth's effort to participate in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), according to a statement from state Senate Republicans. The initiative sets a cap on planet-warming emissions and requires power plants in the...

Another Trump critic faces mortgage fraud claims

Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy   The Big Story Swalwell blasts referral for alleged mortgage fraud The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has reportedly made a criminal referral for Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), sending information to the Justice Department accusing him of mortgage fraud. ©...

Five revelations from the latest Jeffrey Epstein document dump by Democrats, Republicans

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released 20,000 pages of documents from the estate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Wednesday, hours after Democrats on the committee released emails in which the disgraced financier alleged that President Trump “knew about the girls.” The newly released files include spreadsheets, images of books relevant to...

Blanche, George Conway spar over Epstein emails: ‘Stop talking’

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on Thursday blasted conservative attorney George Conway online for calling into question Blanche's interview with Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted associate of the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Conway wrote that Blanche's July questioning of Maxwell "was either (a) completely incompetent; or (b) intentionally crafted not to elicit facts incriminating Trump," Conway...

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