Former Capitol Police officers present during the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection said President-elect Trump’s commitment to pardon rioters is “a betrayal.” “It’s a betrayal, a stab in the heart,” former Sergeant Aquilino Gonell told the Washington Post. Trump said one of his first priorities after his inauguration is to pardon those imprisoned for their role...
Have those in charge of our defense against terrorism taken their eyes off the ball to engage in petty, self-destructive and potentially illegal partisan politics?
Former President Jimmy Carter's week-long state funeral services began Saturday morning with a trek to his childhood home and the Carter Presidential Center.
A U.S. District Judge denied a Jan. 6 rioter’s request to attend President-elect Trump's inauguration later this month, citing concerns over the Capitol insurrection which incited hours of chaos and violence in the nation’s capital. Russell Taylor, who is on probation after pleading guilty to obstructing an official proceeding, petitioned the court for permission to...
The Panama Canal treaties were approved by a bipartisan coalition of senators who accepted a counterintuitive reality: Giving up the canal was the best way to retain its use.
Sen. Adam Schiff's (D-Calif.) swearing-in for a full six-year term in the upper chamber this week set a U.S. record, as the 119th Congress convened for the first time Friday. The Democrat from Burbank, Calif., is the only senator in the U.S. history to have taken the oath of office three separate times in less...
Honduran President Xiomara Castro issued President-elect Trump a stark warning earlier this week over his vow to pursue mass deportations when he returns to the White House, threatening to bar U.S. troops from the Latin American nation. “Faced with a hostile attitude of mass expulsion of our brothers, we would have to consider a change...