I guess sex trafficking, violent assault, gun possession and murder all count as “non-violent drug offenses” in Joe Biden’s America, and crime victims are irrelevant.
President Biden said Sunday the "guns in Gaza have gone silent" as three Israeli hostages were released to mark the start of the cease-fire between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday he will issue on Monday an executive order to extend the time that Chinese-owned TikTok has to find a new owner before the social media app becomes permanently banned in the U.S.
After the initial crush of personnel announcements for President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration, the nominations process will move forward this week.
President-elect Donald Trump has launched a new cryptocurrency token that is soaring in value - and potentially boosting his net worth - just before his inauguration. It's the latest norm-defying promotion by Trump, who has also helped sell branded bibles, gold sneakers and diamond-encrusted watches.
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.
It is important to remember that a lawyer in a criminal case is merely an agent. It is the defendant who must decide which defenses to raise, whether to plea bargain, whether to testify and especially whether to raise a defense such as insanity.
Gov. Jim Pillen (R-Neb.) was hospitalized on Sunday after being bucked off a horse, according to his office, which said he is "alert and is in continuous touch with his team.” In a Sunday press release, Pillen’s office said he and family members were on horseback when he was bucked of a "new" horse. Pillen...
President-elect Trump said on social media Sunday evening that the U.S. owning Greenland “is an absolute necessity,” in a statement announcing Ken Howery as his nominee to serve as ambassador to Denmark. Howery, a tech investor who co-founded PayPal, was ambassador to Sweden in the previous Trump administration. “For purposes of National Security and Freedom...
President-elect Donald Trump was elected to get things done, and voters expect him to focus on issues such as lowering the cost of living, securing the border, and improving public safety, while Democrats should work with Trump to advance real solutions to these issues.
President-elect Donald Trump has transformed the Republican party into the "Make-America-Great-Again" party and is set to take over the government with a Politburo-like leadership, which could potentially end the Constitution's system of checks and balances.
IN TODAY'S ISSUE Funding fight foretells fraught GOP future Congress narrowly avoided a government shutdown over the weekend, but the chaotic lead-up and negotiations paint a picture of what’s to come once Republicans take unified control of the government in January. Last week’s days-long roller coaster leaves serious questions about how Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.)...
Despite the threat of government shutdowns, the government never actually shuts down, but instead creates more government jobs and wastes more money through the increased bureaucracy required to plan for shutdowns that never actually happen.
President-elect Trump wields tremendous power among GOP lawmakers in the House and Senate, but his struggle to convince Republicans to bend to his will on the debt ceiling suggest it has its limits. Thirty-eight conservative Republicans on Thursday voted against a stopgap funding measure that included a two-year suspension of the debt ceiling, arguing they...
