At this point in his presidency, President Biden has already commuted more sentences than his recent predecessors. President Joe Biden on Dec. 12 announced he was pardoning 39 people and commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 others, in the largest single-day act of clemency in history. The pardons are going to individuals who were convicted
ROME, Ga.—A motorist was killed as police responded to a bomb threat at the Georgia home of U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, authorities said. A police officer on the local bomb squad was traveling to the scene when he collided with another car on Monday, Rome police said in a statement. Greene identified the woman
The former congresswoman has faced questions about a 2017 visit to Syria, where she met with then-Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Tulsi Gabbard is on Capitol Hill this week seeking to gain the backing of the Senate GOP conference for her nomination by President-elect Donald Trump to serve as director of national intelligence—as support for her
‘I think somebody has to find out. If you go back 25 years ago, you had very little autism. Now you have it,’ Trump said. President-elect Donald Trump said on Dec. 8 that he will give Robert F. Kennedy Jr. the freedom to investigate the potential link between vaccines and autism if the latter gains
As a member of Columbia University’s top disciplinary body, Joseph Slaughter helped draft guidelines meant to provide students with a “contemporary understanding” of school rules on campus protests. As an English professor, he delivered a lecture that lauded a string of terrorist plane hijackings as “spectacular” and “remarkable,” according to audio obtained by the Washington
Lake will ensure that ‘American values of Freedom and Liberty’ are broadcast around the globe again, the president-elect said. President-elect Donald Trump has named former Fox 10 Phoenix news anchor Kari Lake to lead the federally-funded international broadcasting network Voice of America (VOA). “I am pleased to announce that Kari Lake will serve as our
‘America cannot afford to sit idly by … while China positions itself to expand its influence over a body to which our nation belongs,’ the lawmakers wrote. A group of U.S. lawmakers led by Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) wrote to President Joe Biden on Dec. 11, urging the United States to oppose a United Nations