Democrats are skeptical about the idea of President Joe Biden preemptively pardoning critics of Donald Trump, even as the president-elect’s presumptive FBI director nominee, Kash Patel, threatens legal action against his own detractors. Biden is discussing using his pardon power to prevent possible future prosecutions with some of his top aides with the effort led […]
President-elect Donald Trump has mended his relationship with Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) despite an extremely fraught 2024 primary race. Trump met with DeSantis in recent days and is reportedly considering him as a potential nominee to lead the Pentagon should Fox News host Pete Hegseth fail the confirmation process in the Senate. The two leaders […]
Few presidential clichés are wearier than “Day One.” Preparing for his 2009 inauguration, then-President-elect Barack Obama vowed to work for Middle East peace from “Day One” of his administration. In 2016, Donald Trump pledged for his own first day a whole suite of executive actions, ranging from regulatory changes to a declaration that China manipulates […]
JERUSALEM — President-elect Donald Trump‘s victory could make it much more difficult for U.S. college students and academics to harass Jewish students and boycott Israeli academics and institutions. “My first week back in the Oval Office, my administration will inform every college president that, if you do not end antisemitic propaganda, they will lose their […]
On Aug. 1, the eyes of the world were focused on a multicountry, 24-person prisoner exchange that saw three American citizens and one green-card holder released from Russian detention. While the United States rejoiced at the news of the swap, four innocent Americans remained behind. Today, they sit in Russian prisons with no information about […]
President-elect Donald Trump has selected former U.S. Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott, who President Joe Biden put out to pasture, as the director of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Trump announced late Thursday that he would nominate Scott, who Biden had let go in August 2021 after he came out against banning the term […]
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has grown increasingly friendly toward President-elect Donald Trump, raising questions about what both men are up to. “I don’t want people talking at each other,” Adams said Tuesday. “I want people to talk to each other. I made it clear that I’m not going to be warring with [the […]
President Joe Biden is facing growing pressure to commute the sentences of the more than three dozen inmates sitting on federal death row before President-elect Donald Trump, a death penalty proponent, enters the White House. Since losing the election, Biden has received an influx of calls from activists pleading with him to grant the commutations, […]
President-elect Donald Trump received the “Patriot of the Year” at the 2024 Fox Nation Patriot Awards on Thursday night. Trump was recognized for his bravery, courage, and leadership during the 2024 presidential campaign, which included multiple assassination attempts and plots against him. The Patriot Awards recognizes “America’s finest patriots, including military veterans, first responders, and […]
In 2018 the journalist Patrick Radden Keefe, a writer at the New Yorker who is particularly adept at using true crime as a vehicle for probing intellectual questions, published Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland. The book looked at the ripple effects of a notorious, decades-old crime: the 1972 […]
