The move marks the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history. President Joe Biden said on Jan. 17 that he is commuting the sentences of nearly 2,500 individuals, marking the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history. The latest pardons are being granted to people who were convicted of non-violent drug offenses and
The 47th president is poised to issue many more executive orders than his recent predecessors. President-elect Donald Trump is poised to issue a record-breaking number of actions immediately after his inauguration on Jan. 20. Stephen Miller, Trump’s incoming deputy chief of staff, has said that Trump would make more than 100 executive actions within the
“A has power over B,” said the political scientist Robert Dahl, “to the extent that he can get B to do something that B would not otherwise do.” In Washington’s new power equation, “A” is Donald Trump and “B” is everyone else. He has spent nearly a decade in presidential politics, remade the Republican Party
As President Biden prepares to depart the White House, he leaves an economic legacy marked by a historic pandemic that paralyzed consumers and businesses across the U.S. After inheriting a COVID-scarred nation in 2021, Mr. Biden focused on righting the economy, a strategy that economists told CBS MoneyWatch is visible in the country’s solid GDP
Biden said he had altered the ‘basic formula’ of the US economy. He also discussed NATO, Putin, the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, and his approach to inflation. One day after delivering his farewell address, President Joe Biden sat down for the last interview of his term. The Oval Office interview, which was recorded earlier in the evening
At least eight states have enacted measures over the past two years to restrict or ban student cellphone use in schools. A growing number of states are implementing or considering bans on cellphone use in schools, with support coming from both sides of the political aisle. At least eight states have enacted measures to restrict
Before leaving office, U.S. President Biden on Jan. 15 extended the “Deferred Enforcement Departure Program” (DED) for some Hong Kong residents in the United States for two more years, allowing them to remain in the country after their visas expire. Biden said the extension was in response to the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) continued erosion