Sen. Dick Durbin says Biden clemency recipients, which include a triple murderer, ‘demonstrated a commitment to rehabilitation’ U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Senate Democrats blocked Sen. Tom Cotton’s (R., Ark.) resolution Thursday to condemn President Joe Biden’s decision to grant clemency to a former Pennsylvania judge who sent juveniles to prison in exchange
In the final weeks of his presidency, Biden announced a last-minute student loan handout, even as he abandons his broader plan to cancel student loans for over 38 million Americans, the Associated Press reported. Biden will forgive $4.28 billion in student loans for 54,900 eligible public sector workers through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program,
Lee Edwards, who died last week at the age of 92, was right from the beginning. Consider the moment of his political awakening. When Soviet tanks rolled into Hungary in 1956, crushing an anti-Communist rebellion, Lee was in Europe. He had just served his country as a U.S. Army officer in West Germany. He witnessed
An Indiana University class required students to determine their “privileged” and “dominant” identities—like being white or male—so that they could “address issues of oppression.” The mandatory exercise was part of a course that fulfills the school’s “social and historical studies” requirement needed to graduate. Students were instructed to write an “in-depth reflection of two parts
Other prosecutors unlikely to relitigate case that Trump’s attorney says ‘should have never been brought’ Fani Willis (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis’s case against President-elect Donald Trump is “effectively dead,” according to legal experts, after a Georgia appeals court disqualified her from the investigation in a Thursday ruling. The court disqualified
‘The thing about this show: There is no way not to step in poo,’ Goldberg says The View’s Whoopi Goldberg apologized on-air Thursday after suggesting Vice President-elect J.D. Vance and Elon Musk want to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump by tripping him downstairs. “Hey, you know who: stay away from the stairways,” Goldberg said to laughter.
New York City mayor Eric Adams’s former chief adviser, Ingrid Lewis-Martin, was indicted Thursday on charges of conspiracy, bribery, and money laundering. Lewis-Martin is accused of giving special treatment to two real estate developers when their construction project faced government roadblocks. The developers rewarded Lewis-Martin for her assistance by gifting her and her son over