‘I mean, it sounds stupid,’ Biden told MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell A tired-sounding President Joe Biden on Thursday gave his final TV interview in office, during which he deeply intoned “I’VE GOT TO GO TO UKRAINE,” mused on the 1440 Gutenberg printing press, appeared to claim that he and Barack Obama grew up together, and said
President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of roughly 2,500 non-violent drug offenders Friday, breaking his own record for single-day commutations just days before leaving office. Those receiving clemency were “serving disproportionately long sentences compared to the sentences they would receive today under current law, policy, and practice,” Biden said in a statement released Friday. “This
Two Americans are set to be released this week alongside dozens of Israelis in the first stage of Israel and Hamas’s hostage-ceasefire deal, leaving five Americans still in captivity. U.S. citizens Sagui Dekel-Chen and Keith Siegel will be among the 33 hostages released as early as Sunday in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, including
Chinese-owned app has said it will shut down on Sunday, the deadline for a sale (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) The Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of the TikTok sell-or-ban law on Friday, just two days before the January 19 deadline for the video sharing app to decouple from its Chinese Communist Party-controlled parent company. Hours
“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
‘CNN is so arrogant, they are so used to getting whatever they want,’ plaintiff’s attorney says A clip of Jake Tapper plays during CNN’s defamation trial in Panama City, Fla. (Free Beacon) PANAMA CITY, Fla.—Jurors in the $1 billion defamation suit against CNN ended deliberations Thursday evening without handing down a decision. They will resume
Former North Dakota governor Doug Burgum (R.) and former New York congressman Lee Zeldin (R.), President-elect Donald Trump’s picks to lead the Interior Department and EPA, respectively, appear to have a glide path to Senate approval following their confirmation hearings Thursday. Burgum and Zeldin—who, if confirmed, will oversee the bulk of Trump’s aggressive energy and