Trump meets with Syria’s new president amid push to restore ties

President Trump met Wednesday in Saudi Arabia with Syria’s interim president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, highlighting the stunning reversal in fortunes for a former Islamist militant with ties to al Qaeda who spent years with a U.S. government bounty on his head. Al-Sharaa’s rebel forces led the charge on Damascus last year that toppled the decades-long, iron-fisted

Trump’s New Pardon Attorney to Scrutinize Pardons Biden Issued Before Leaving Office

Ed Martin said that ‘we’re going to take a hard look’ at the pardons. President Donald Trump’s newly tabbed pardon attorney said on May 13 that his work will include scrutinizing pardons that former President Joe Biden issued just before leaving office in January. “I do think that the Biden pardons need some scrutiny. And