The Pentagon on Monday swore in Robert G. Salesses as the acting secretary of Defense while President Trump's nominee Pete Hegseth awaits Senate confirmation. Salesses was sworn in just after noon, according to a defense official. NBC News first reported on his swearing-in. Salesses is the deputy director of the Washington Headquarters Services at the...
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the two leaders of the now-disbanded Jan. 6 committee, thanked former President Biden for a pardon they said was “not for breaking the law but upholding it.” Just hours before leaving office, Biden announced he would issue pardons for all the members of the committee...
A swath of high-profile Democrats warned President Biden against issuing preemptive and blanket pardons to those seen as Trump's political foes before pardoning Fauci and Milley.
President Biden issued a preemptive pardon to Gen. Mark Milley on Monday, capping off a presidency marred by the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal in 2021.