President Biden’s decision to give his son a full and unconditional pardon represented a stunning reversal for the outgoing commander in chief, who previously had insisted he would do no such thing while extolling the importance of respecting the rule of law. Biden and his aides had emphatically insisted for more than a year that...
President-elect Trump’s transition team announced Tuesday it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Justice Department, which will allow the FBI to conduct background checks for certain individuals chosen for the incoming administration. The transition said the agreement with the DOJ allows Trump’s team to “submit names for background checks and security clearances.”...
Low-income Californians would have an easier time purchasing hormonal birth control pills at their local pharmacy under a new bill. The bill, which was recently introduced to the California State Assembly, would remove a self-screening requirement for recipients of Medi-Cal, the state's Medicaid program, trying to access daily hormonal birth control pills without a prescription....
President-elect Trump’s attorneys laid out their arguments for why his criminal conviction in New York should be dismissed entirely in a new court filing made public Tuesday in which they cited Hunter Biden’s pardon earlier this week. Since he won the election, Trump has pushed for tossing the jury’s 34-count guilty verdict that stems from...
House Republicans are calling for an investigation into Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) employees, alleging they avoided homes with Trump campaign yard signs in multiple states when they were assisting communities hit by recent hurricanes. Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chair Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.) and subcommittee Chair Scott Perry (R-Pa.) asked for the Department of...
House floor consideration of a resolution forcing the House Ethics Committee to release its report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) is expected this week, after Rep. Sean Casten (D-Ill.) on Tuesday renewed his move to force action on an updated version of the resolution — despite Gaetz having withdrawn his name to be President-elect...
Incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) laid out an ambitious plan at the Senate Republican retreat Tuesday for Congress to move first next year on a budget reconciliation package that would be focused on border security and defense, and then act later in the year on a second reconciliation package to extend the expiring...
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s DOGE has signaled that funding for services for illegal immigrants is on the chopping block as the agency prepares to hack away at government spending.
The Florida sheriff that President-elect Donald Trump nominated to be the administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has withdrawn his name from consideration.