President Biden has stirred controversy after he commuted the sentence of a corrupt judge who was jailed for more than 17 years after he was caught taking kickbacks for sending juveniles to for-profit detention facilities.
President Biden is seeking to focus on climate funding during his final weeks in office, before President-elect Trump potentially takes aim at his green energy agenda.
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If not for one momentous decision in 1976, Mississippi’s Clarke Reed would be considered one of the great heroes of the Republican Party renaissance of the latter 20th century. The reality that he spent his last 48 years detested by a swath of Reaganite activists should not obscure his larger contributions to the cause. Journalist-historian […]
Though Stanley Tucci is a Hollywood A-lister, starring alongside Ralph Fiennes in this year’s Oscar-contending Conclave, for instance, and in crowd pleasers such as the Hunger Games films, he has cooked up a public persona somehow more associated with food than acting. Tucci has honed a character as a famous epicure that rivals the ones […]
A senior federal employee lamented to me recently about work fights he has with lawyers. It would be bad enough if these pitted him against attorneys launching lawsuits against his department, but it’s not. His diurnal conflicts are with lawyers on his own side. They constantly press him not to go ahead with one innovation […]
CNN suffered a huge setback in a Florida court on Dec. 9 when a state judge denied the network’s efforts to dismiss a case against a Navy veteran who helped civilians flee the country in the final days of President Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. Zachary Young was running a security consulting company in […]