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...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said he plans to uphold the law around the TikTok ban in America. Johnson joined NBC News’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, where he weighed in on the overnight social media blackout when the popular app was no longer accessible in the United States. Host Kristen Welker asked him if President-elect...
Congresswoman Chellie Pingree is advocating for a healthier America by proposing bills to support local and regional farming, improve food access and nutrition, and reduce pesticide use, while urging the Trump administration to prioritize these issues in their Make America Healthy Again campaign.
Incoming national security adviser Mike Waltz said on Sunday that President-elect Trump is committed to saving TikTok while ensuring Americans are safe. In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Waltz said the incoming president is working in “literally real time, working with the various tech companies” to “get it back online and buy...
Fighting in Gaza halted on Sunday as the ceasefire deal negotiated went into effect, ending the 15-month-long war between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Residents in Gaza said they heard no new fighting between the groups about a half hour before the ceasefire was set to begin, Reuters reported. These deal between Israel and Hamas is...