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Trump grants sweeping pardon of Jan. 6 defendants, including rioters who violently attacked police
President Donald Trump has pardoned, commuted the prison sentences or vowed to dismiss the cases of all of the 1,500-plus people charged with crimes in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol More »
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Trump wants to pull the US out of the World Health Organization again. Here's what may happen next
U.S. President Donald Trump has used one of the flurry of executive actions that he issued on his first day back in the White House to begin the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization for the second time in less than five years More »
Stefanik will face questions about wars and nukes at her confirmation hearing to be UN ambassador
Rep. Elise Stefanik is likely to face questions at her confirmation hearing to become the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations about her lack of foreign policy experience, her strong support for Israel and her views on funding the U.N. The fourth-ranking member of the U.S. House, she was elected to Congress in 2015 as a moderate Republican and is leaving a decade later as one of President Donald Trump’s most ardent allies More »
Trump moves to suspend clearances of ex-intel officials who signed letter on Hunter Biden laptop
President Donald Trump says his administration will move to suspend the security clearances of the more than four dozen former intelligence officials who signed a 2020 letter saying that the Hunter Biden laptop saga bore the hallmarks of a “Russian information operation.” More »
Trump sets out to erase Biden's legacy with pardons and orders immediately after taking office
Donald Trump has begun erasing Joe Biden’s legacy after taking office as the nation’s 47th president More »
Trump signs death penalty order directing attorney general to help states get lethal injection drugs
President Donald Trump has signed a sweeping execution order on the death penalty that directs the attorney general to “take all necessary and lawful action” to ensure that states have enough lethal injection drugs to carry out executions More »
Trump signed slew of executive orders on Day 1. What are his priorities?
President Donald Trump has signed a flurry of executive actions on Day 1 More »
Inside the intimate inauguration: Close-up encounters between political rivals, some awkward
A president’s inaugural address is a time-honored spectacle: A makeshift grandstand is erected next to the Capitol and hundreds of thousands people line the National Mall More »
Biden pardons his siblings and their spouses on his way out of the White House
Joe Biden has pardoned his siblings and their spouses on his way out of the White House More »
Trump orders government not to infringe on Americans’ speech, calls for censorship investigation
President Donald Trump has ordered that no federal officer, employee or agent may unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen More »