President-elect Trump will gain back vast powers when he retakes the nation's highest office, including the ability to grant pardons. During his first four years as president, Trump granted 144 pardons — a notably low number that included several of his allies. Excluding President Biden, whose term is not yet up, the only president in...

State Sen. Liz Krueger, D-Manhattan, reiterated her suggestion about New York seceding to Canada in a Politico interview this week, which led to incredulous responses.

Julian Castro, the former San Antonio mayor and Obama admin official, was lambasted on X for saying President-elect Donald Trump supporters should give thanks to undocumented immigrants.

Even though both federal criminal prosecutions against President-elect Donald Trump have been dismissed, the charges could return against him again once he leaves office in 2029.

“Is the truth always justice?” inquires a taciturn Nicholas Hoult in Clint Eastwood’s latest film, Juror #2. This prescient question lies at the heart of Eastwood’s new work, a courtroom drama and character study that is his best in over a decade, pondering a deep moral dilemma of Dostoyevskian proportions. Hoult plays Justin Kemp, a recovering […]

Are we ready to admit that the lockdowns were an overreaction? That the indignities, absurdities, and enormities we suffered in 2020 were largely pointless? Or is it still too painful? The nomination of Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to lead the National Institutes of Health does not, of itself, represent a sea change. President-elect Donald Trump likes […]

A member of the UK Cabinet has resigned after reports revealed she was convicted in a fraud case more than a decade ago. British Transport Secretary Louise Haigh submitted her resignation in a letter to Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday, saying while she is "totally committed to our political project ... it will be...

Bessent’s reputation is that he is a “fiscal hawk,” and his stated goal is to cut the federal budget deficit roughly in half to 3 percent of GDP.

The head of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service said Russia's war against Ukraine is part of a “staggeringly reckless campaign of Russian sabotage” aimed at Europe. Richard Moore, chief of the intelligence agency known as MI6, accused Russian President Vladimir Putin and his allies of saber-rattling to "sow fear about the consequences of aiding Ukraine" and...

Russian President Vladimir Putin praised President-elect Trump as an “intelligent” and “experienced” leader Thursday, while noting he does not believe the president-elect is “safe” following the two attempts on his life earlier this year. Putin, speaking to reporters in Kazakhstan after a summit, said relations between Moscow and Washington could improve once Trump is back in...