A retired Washington, D.C., police officer was convicted Monday of lying to authorities about leaking confidential information to the leader of the far-right Proud Boys. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson convicted former Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Shane Lamond, who used to supervise the intelligence branch of the police department’s Homeland Security Bureau, of obstructing justice
President Biden increased the emissions reduction goal for the United States under the Paris climate agreement, which Trump has signaled he intends to withdraw from.
Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., allegedly paid multiple women for sex and illicit drugs, according to a House Ethics Committee report.
The Biden administration's $10M bounty on Ahmed al-Sharaa, leader of the group that overthrew Syria's Bashar al-Assad, has now been lifted.
Gaetz had sued the ethics committee and its chair on Monday in a last-minute bid to preemptively block the release of the report. The House Ethics Committee unveiled its report into the past conduct of former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) on Dec. 23 after he filed a lawsuit in federal court to block its release.
House Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley is among the left-wing lawmakers praising President Biden's decision to commute 37 federal death row inmates' sentences.
Washington — President Biden on Monday announced he had commuted the sentences of nearly all federal inmates on death row, with the exception of three who did not receive clemency. There are 37 inmates initially sentenced to death who will be impacted by Mr. Biden’s action and will now receive life in prison without the