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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

‘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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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.

Murkowski: 'I'm not attached to' Republican label  —  Sen. Lisa Murkowski said Thursday she felt “more comfortable” with no party label than with “an identity as a Republican,” an escalation of the Alaska senator's occasional bucking of her party as the chamber readies itself for a slew …

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 …

Biden Has a Pair of Gifts for Trump  —  Donald Trump is a lucky man.  —  The combination of allied courage and American support has inflicted serious losses on America's enemies and created a series of strategic openings for the United States.  The Iranian “axis of resistance” is in a state of collapse.

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.

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.

Trump Says Jeff Bezos to Meet With Him Next Week  —  Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is meeting with Donald Trump next week, the president-elect said Thursday, highlighting his contacts with tech titans, including those with extensive contracts with the US government, in the run-up to his return to the White House.

Trump says daughter-in-law Lara could carry on political dynasty … - Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have played key roles in building his next administration and laying the groundwork for the MAGA movement's political progeny.  — Lara Trump, Eric's wife, stepped down as co-chair …

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.

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.

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.

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.

Yes, It Was a Landslide … Having lost the election, demoralized Democrats now argue their defeat wasn't a landslide.  Nice try.  Their reaction is more than knee-jerk petulance; instead, it arises from fears of permanence.  With Trump gaining momentum, even before his inauguration …