More than 6,400 veterans were discharged for their sexual orientation from 1994 to 2011 under less than honorable status. President Joe Biden announced on June 26 that potentially thousands of former military service members convicted under the military’s now-repealed ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy will be pardoned. Biden’s action pardons service members convicted under the
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, after more than a year of imprisonment in Moscow, has been brought to trial Wednesday in Yekaterinburg on trumped-up charges of espionage. Russian authorities claim that Gershkovich was gathering intelligence about a Russian tank manufacturer for the CIA. The United States, Gershkovich, and the Journal all maintain that Gershkovich
President Biden pardoned LGBTQ+ service members who were convicted of a crime under military law based on their sexual orientation on Wednesday, a move that is expected to affect thousands of service members who were convicted over the six decades that military law formally banned consensual homosexual conduct. “Today, I am righting an historic wrong
Prosecutors included the new photos in several filings made public on Monday. Photographs that were taken during the August 2022 search of former President Donald Trump’s home in Florida were released in a court filing earlier this week, showing personal items alongside what prosecutors say are classified documents. The photos, which had not been publicly
House Speaker Mike Johnson says Republicans are not giving up the fight to get audio tapes of special counsel Robert Hur's interview with President Biden.
Newly unsealed court docs show the Biden administration's health department urged WPATH to remove its minimum age requirement for transgender surgical procedures for adolescents.
The Biden administration has expressed opposition to all three appropriations measures. The House Rules Committee advanced on June 25 three House appropriations bills to the floor of the lower congressional chamber for scheduled votes this week. The final tally was 9–4. The bills are for funding the Departments of State, Defense, and Homeland Security. The