FACT SHEET: President Biden Announces Clemency for Nearly 1,500 Americans  —  Today's announcement will commute the sentences of close to 1,500 individuals who were placed on home confinement and will pardon 39 individuals convicted of non-violent crimes  —  Today, President Biden announced …

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Donates $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund  —  President-elect had blasted the tech tycoon during the presidential campaign, but ties have been improving  —  Meta Platforms has donated $1 million to president-elect Donald Trump's inaugural fund …

Chris Wray folds like cheap suit.  Don't be Chris Wray.  —  The FBI director obeys in advance. … 🚔  —  FBI Director Christopher Wray became the latest public official to remove his own spine and dissolve into a puddle of genuflecting goo for the greater glory of MAGA …

Trump's Kari Lake ‘pick’ sparks fears at Voice of America  —  Presidents don't ordinarily pick the director of Voice of America, an international news broadcaster funded by the US government.  But President-elect Donald Trump says he wants his ally Kari Lake to take over VOA.

Read the Full Transcript of Donald Trump's 2024 Person of the Year Interview With TIME  —  President-elect Donald Trump, TIME's 2024 Person of the Year, sat down for a wide-ranging interview at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., on Nov. 25.  —  Over the course of the interview …

Biden judicial nominations endgame comes into focus  —  The judicial branch will be top of mind in the legislative branch on Thursday.  Senate Democrats are nearing the judicial confirmations total that President-elect Donald Trump achieved in his first term.

Trump invites China's Xi Jinping to inauguration  —  President-elect Donald Trump has invited Chinese President Xi Jinping to attend his inauguration next month, multiple sources told CBS News, and inauguration officials are making plans for additional foreign dignitaries to attend the swearing-in ceremony.

Pete Hegseth, Trump's Defense pick, says allowing gay troops to serve openly reflects a Marxist agenda  —  Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for secretary of defense, has repeatedly criticized policies allowing gay people to serve openly in the US military, calling them part of a …

‘My God there is light’: CNN witnesses moment Syrian prisoner is freed from Assad's forced detention  —  While searching a secretive prison in the belly of the Assad regime's legacy of torture for American journalist Austin Tice, CNN's Clarissa Ward made a startling discovery …

Power, Intimidation and the Resurrection of Trump's Support for Hegseth  —  The president-elect became convinced that letting Pete Hegseth fail would set off a feeding frenzy among senators.  What followed was a MAGA swarm that helped salvage his bid, at least for now.

Ex-F.B.I. Informant Agrees to Plead Guilty to Lying About Bidens  —  Alexander Smirnov's deal with the special counsel overseeing the investigation into Hunter Biden could lead to 48 to 72 months in prison, though a federal judge would need to review the deal.

Ohio teacher suspended for including four books with LGBTQ characters in her classroom library  —  Karen Cahall has been a teacher in the New Richmond School District in Ohio for 34 years.  During that time, according to a lawsuit Cahall filed earlier this month, she “consistently received …

Is This How Democrats Win Back the Working Class?  —  A week after Donald Trump won the presidency again, I sat across from Chris Murphy in his minimalist but well-appointed D.C. office.  The Connecticut senator sounded like a man who had done a speedrun through all five stages of grief …

Decivilization May Already Be Under Way  —  The line between a normal, functioning society and catastrophic decivilization can be crossed with a single act of mayhem.  This is why, for those who have studied violence closely, the brazen murder of a CEO in Midtown Manhattan—and, more important …

Democrats Lost the Propaganda War  —  The party used up about $5 billion on political ads in 2024.  There's a better way.  —  A Fox News ad is displayed outside the Fiserv Forum on the eve of the Republican National Convention, July 14, 2024, in Milwaukee.

No Winners Seen in Trump's ‘Hugely Destructive’ Energy Tariffs  — Analysts expect levies to hurt refiners, raise US gas prices  — Canada, Mexico also stand to lose in oil, gas trade war  —  When President-elect Donald Trump announced his plan to impose tariffs on goods coming …

Bill forcing hospitals to administer ivermectin, other requested treatments nears finish line  —  COLUMBUS, Ohio - Senate Republicans on Wednesday passed legislation that would enable patients to force hospitals into administering drugs for off-label use if the hospital's own physicians refuse.

South Korea's ruling party backs impeachment as president refuses to step down over martial law  —  South Korea's ruling party has thrown its support behind attempts to impeach embattled President Yoon Suk Yeol over his ill-fated decision to declare martial law that sparked a political crisis and widespread public anger in the country.

Luigi Mangione's Commonplace, Deplorable Politics  —  From his actions, and the glee that they have elicited, one learns not that the health-care system is broken but that many of us are.  —  In the last scene of Terrence Malick's 1973 film, Badlands, a recently arrested spree killer is sitting handcuffed next to a state trooper.

Blue States are Unaffordable.  The Price Will be Political.  —  Every year, millions of Americans bounce around the country like electrons, moving from one state to another.  But there are patterns in this chaos, and one of the clearest in recent decades is that Americans are moving from blue states to red states.

End the Medicare For All wars  —  It's time to talk about other health care policy ideas  —  I'm a little uncomfortable with the fact that health care policy is back on the American political agenda because of the murder of UnitedHealth Care's CEO.  But, given that it is, I do want to write about it.

Mitch McConnell Says Trump Win Puts Americans In A ‘Very Dangerous World’  —  The GOP's outgoing Senate leader said he plans to spend his final two years in office pushing back against the Trump-fueled isolationism within his party.  —  LOADING  —  Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) …

Fox News Poll: Voters feel hopeful post-election, want Trump to focus on inflation  —  A month after Donald Trump's presidential victory, more voters feel positive than negative about the election results.  —  A month after Donald Trump's presidential victory, more voters feel positive than negative about the election results.

The Crisis Neither Party Is Equipped to Handle  —  America's education system is in trouble, but neither Republicans nor Democrats are up for the challenge of enforcing change.  —  In 1957, the Soviet Union shocked the world with the launch of its Earth-orbiting Sputnik satellite.