JOE BIDEN’S PARDON FRENZY. With inaugural crowds gathering in Washington, D.C., the hours of Joe Biden‘s presidency are ticking down to noon Monday. Before that moment comes, though, Biden is expected to issue more pardons and commutations to go with the record number of clemencies, many of them controversial, that he has already granted. Most notably, there […]
Three Israeli hostages were released to the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) on Sunday following a ceasefire deal between Israel and the militant group Hamas. The three freed hostages, Romi Gonen, Doron Steinbrecher and Emily Damari, were released by Hamas to the IDF on Sunday, the military announced on X. The trio entered Israeli territory soon...
President-elect Trump said Sunday he will issue an executive order to postpone the ban on TikTok and give its Chinese-based company ByteDance more time to divest from the platform. "I’m asking companies not to let TikTok stay dark!" Trump wrote on Truth Social Sunday morning. "I will issue an executive order on Monday to extend...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) vowed that there will be “hell to pay” if Hamas violates the ceasefire deal struck recently with Israel. Johnson joined NBC News’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, saying he was hopeful about the truce announced last week. He said he recently spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and they are...
TikTok went dark in the United States on Saturday night -- hours before a law banning the popular video-sharing platform was expected to go into effect. The Biden administration said Friday that it did not plan to enforce the law and would instead leave its implementation to the incoming Trump administration. President-elect Trump will officially return...
The scathing House Ethics Committee report released Monday caps off one of the most extensive investigations into former Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-Fla.) conduct, headlined by findings that Gaetz paid a 17-year-old high school student for sex and used illicit drugs like cocaine and ecstasy. The report accuses Gaetz of misusing his office to dispense a...
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have proposed the creation of a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to cut the federal government down to size, while Michael Mandel and Diana Carew have proposed a Regulatory Improvement Commission (RIC) to review and simplify existing regulations.
The attorney for Luigi Mangione, who has been accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, slammed New York City officials for what she referred to as a “staged” perp walk for her client last week. Karen Friedman Agnifilo said during Monday’s hearing, where Mangione pleaded not guilty to the state charges he is facing, that...
Texas, Florida, Arizona and Idaho are likely to gain House seats after the 2030 census, according to consulting firm Election Data Services. A gain of two congressional seats would be seen in Texas and Florida, and one seat each in Arizona and Idaho, if congressional reapportionment were being ”held today,” the firm said in a Friday...
Australia has agreed to extradite a former Marines pilot who the U.S. has accused of training Chinese pilots more than a decade ago. Australian Attorney General Mark Dreyfus confirmed in a statement on Monday that the U.S. ally would extradite Daniel Duggan following a more than two-year battle by the former Marine and his family....
Remembering that history makes the peaceful transfer of power that Biden is promising seems less a rote exercise than a commitment that must be revived after every election and celebrated whenever it occurs.
Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) openly floated the idea of running for Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-Fla.) Senate seat during a Turning Point USA event Sunday in Arizona. “Many have asked which perch I will be fighting from next, and some of you throughout this conference have even given me a few suggestions,” Gaetz said at...
President Biden gave commutations of sentences to 37 people on federal death row Monday. Those who received the commutations of their sentences saw them go from execution to life with no possibility of parole. However, three “hard cases” were not among the commutations. Biden, while announcing the commutations, said he is “more convinced than ever...
The House Ethics Committee on Monday released its report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who has faced allegations of sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, among other violations. Gaetz, who has denied any wrongdoing, had moved earlier in the day to block the release of the report through a lawsuit, arguing that the committee...
The House Ethics Committee found “substantial evidence” that former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) paid a 17-year-old high school student for sex when he was 35, used illicit drugs like cocaine and ecstasy, and obstructed Congress’s investigation into his conduct. Those conclusions come in a highly anticipated report released Monday that capped the panel’s years-long, on-and-off investigation into the...
President Biden spurred criticism and praise on Monday with his decision to commute all but three prisoners currently on federal death row. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) called the move "politically convenient," since Biden left three of the most infamous criminals off the list: Robert D. Bowers, the Tree of Life Synagogue shooter; Dylann Roof, who...
President-elect Donald Trump’s lawsuit against veteran pollster J. Ann Selzer for an off-target survey that was released just before last month’s election may be the first of its kind in a modern U.S. presidential election.
Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan earlier this month, pleaded not guilty on Monday to the state charges he is facing, including murder. Mangione’s not guilty plea comes after he was extradited late last week from Pennsylvania, where he was initially found and arrested, to New York,...
It took Assad’s regime to fall and Putin to accept it meekly for the West to appreciate that things weren’t all that rosy in Tsar Vladimir’s rotting kingdom.
