Trump is expected to grant more pardons in the coming weeks. On Tuesday, the U.N. special rapporteur on torture, Nils Melzer, urged Trump to pardon WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. MORE
Jupiter and Saturn will align in the night sky today (Dec. 21) in an event astronomers call the “great conjunction,” and you can watch it online with webcasts from The Virtual Telescope Project, Slooh and MORE
EDINBURGH, Scotland—On Jan. 2, Boris Johnson was feeling pretty good about himself. Having just secured a massive majority in last year’s festive election, the British prime minister posted a thumbs-up photo of his grinning face with the caption: “This is going MORE
(CNN)Attorney Sidney Powell, who has repeatedly pushed baseless conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, was spotted leaving the White House late Sunday evening just days after a heated Oval Office meeting with some of President Donald Trump’s MORE
Amazon workers at an Alabama warehouse are getting closer to holding a vote on whether to form the first U.S. union at one of America’s largest employers — a groundbreaking possibility closely watched by the MORE
Happy Friday, News Viewers. Here are a few cartoons to remind us what we’ve been through this year. For every one there were hundreds more; it’s no wonder we’re all traveling between hope, dread, exhaustion, MORE
WASHINGTON – Lawmakers closed in on a roughly $900billion COVID-19 relief deal Wednesday morning that may include another round of checks and other much-needed financial benefits for Americans, according to a source familiar with negotiations who wasn’t MORE
CNN) The powerful winter storm system that promised heavy snow in parts of the Northeast delivered just that, and created deadly road conditions across the region. Virginia State Police confirmed a 19-year-old involved in a collision in MORE
What person or group of people do you think best represents 2020? Do you agree with Time magazine’s selection of President-elect Joseph R. Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris as its persons of the year? MORE
President Trump’s media criticism is usually binary — there are “good stories,” favorable to him, and then the other category. MORE
Police in Lexington, Ky., are searching for a man they say allegedly shouted a nti-Semitic remarks and ran a person over with his car during a Hanukkah celebration at Jewish Student Center in the city on MORE
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine needs to be kept at around -70 degrees Celsius (-94 degrees Fahrenheit) while it’s transported. That’s 50 degrees Celsius colder than any other vaccine currently used. Moderna says its vaccine can be MORE
Let’s review two pieces of news from the last week. First, the American coronavirus pandemic is entering its worst stage yet, with cases and deaths skyrocketing across the country. Last Thursday saw over 3,000 deaths — more MORE
A Lexington man has been charged with strangulation a year after then-Gov. Matt Bevin pardoned him on a conviction for killing his infant son. Kurt Robert Smith, 36, was arrested on Friday by Lexington police MORE
Happy Friday, News Viewers, 😎 another rowdy week in our country’s politics. Yes, there were bogus lawsuits, yes there was sedition in the ranks, yes, democracy’s in peril, the economy is in disarray and COVID MORE
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said voting rights activist Stacey Abrams “conned” Georgia election officials, leading to a Democratic presidential win there for the first time in nearly two decades. Graham took issue with voter signature checks in the state MORE
President Trump’s impact on the Republican Party will be studied for decades to come. History will look not only at who joined the GOP in the Trump era, but also who left it. MORE
Former Israeli space security chief says extraterrestrials exist, and Trump knows about it. MORE
COLUMBUS — As federal authorities announced Tuesday they are joining Columbus police in the investigation into the death of a 23-year-old Black man who was shot by a sheriff’s deputy, many questions continue to go unanswered. U.S. Attorney David MORE
Happy Safe Harbor Day, America. Other than Wisconsin, every state appears to have met a deadline in federal law that essentially means Congress has to accept the electoral votes that will be cast next week MORE
(CNN)President Donald Trump‘s staunchest defenders on Capitol Hill are urging him not to concede even after President-elect Joe Biden wins the Electoral College vote next week, calling on their party’s leader to fight for his MORE
Around the world, minks are getting sick. The small, ferret-like mammals farmed for their valuable fur have raised alarm after contracting and mutating the coronavirus, passing it back to humans. The virus, officials said, spread MORE
President Trump came to office unencumbered by close study of our founding documents. From the start, there was only one bit of the Constitution he found compelling: “I have an Article II, where I have the right MORE
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, both Republicans, on Monday rebuffed President Donald Trump’s calls to overturn the state’s election results more than a week after they certified Joe Biden as the winner. MORE
John M. Pierce, a California lawyer who has employed war-like rhetoric in his advocacy and fundraising for Kyle Rittenhouse — the 17-year-old accused of killing two men and wounding another during a night of unrest in Kenosha… MORE