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Live Updates: Ethics Committee releases Gaetz report; Biden commutes death row prisoners

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...

Gaetz Ethics report finds ‘substantial evidence’ of statutory rape, drug use

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...

Crossing the presidential Rubicon: Now Trump is taking pollsters to court 

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.  

Mangione pleads not guilty to state charges in health insurance CEO killing

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,...

The fall of Assad is an ‘emperor has no clothes’ moment for Putin

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.

House report accuses Matt Gaetz of paying women for sex, using illegal drugs, accepting improper gifts

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., allegedly paid multiple women for sex and illicit drugs, according to a House Ethics Committee report.

Biden admin lifts $10M bounty on the head of leader of Islamist group now in charge in Syria

The Biden administration's $10M bounty on Ahmed al-Sharaa, leader of the group that overthrew Syria's Bashar al-Assad, has now been lifted.

‘Squad’ Dem applauds Biden for sparing murderers from ‘racist’ death penalty in 11th-hour clemency move

House Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley is among the left-wing lawmakers praising President Biden's decision to commute 37 federal death row inmates' sentences.

Trump pushes back on attacks over Elon’s growing influence

Trump pushes back on attacks over Elon's growing influence lead image

Gaetz sues to block release of Ethics Committee report

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., filed a lawsuit Monday in an attempt to block the release of a House Ethics Committee report on his alleged behavior.

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