Trump is Time’s Person of the Year for 2024

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President-elect Donald Trump has been named Time magazine’s Person of the Year, the magazine announced Thursday, after he became only the second president in U.S. history to lose reelection and then reclaim the White House four years later.  “Trump’s political rebirth is unparalleled in American history,” Time said in the announcement. The magazine spoke to

Biden Pardons 39 People, Commutes Sentences for Nearly 1,500

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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

Woman Killed in Crash as Officer Responds to Threat at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Home

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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

Biden commutes about 1,500 sentences, most ever in single day

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President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 people who were released from prison and placed on home confinement during the coronavirus pandemic and is pardoning 39 Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes. It’s the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history. The commutations announced Thursday are for people who have served out