At a Florida rally on Tuesday, Mike Pence told a large — mostly maskless — crowd that liberals want to make rich people poorer, and poor people more comfortable. MORE
There are 26 new pardons in the pipeline on Wednesday evening, including Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign manager who lied to prosecutors after agreeing to cooperate with the Mueller investigation, Roger Stone who never agreed MORE
Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi are signaling support for Trump’s suggestion to increase direct payments to Americans for $2,000 in a revamped coronavirus stimulus and government funding bill. McConnell has so far not issued any MORE
BuzzFeedNews is reporting that American pre-med student Skylar Mack’s prison sentence has been reduced from four months to two months for violating the nation’s quarantine protocols for coronavirus. Mack and her boyfriend, whom she had MORE
In what is expected as President-elect’s last public remarks before the holiday, Joe Biden today said that America should brace itself for the darkest days yet of the pandemic and urged the public to prepare MORE
Lindsey Graham on Fox and Friends this morning was speaking on the federal investigations of Hunter Biden’s business affairs in Ukraine when the host raised the issue of the President-elect saying that Graham’s criticism of MORE
An 18-year-old Georgia pre-med student is in jail after breaking a mandatory 14-day quarantine in the Cayman Islands, and now her grandmother is calling on Trump to intervene. Skylar Mack traveled to the Cayman Islands MORE
In the waning days of being President, Trump has been wondering out loud to aides which airport might be named after him, according to two people who have heard him babbling about this. ….In the MORE
Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny got to the bottom of how he was poisoned in August by an elite Russian FSB toxins team. In what was described as a debriefing, Konstantin Kudryavtsev unknowingly was speaking to MORE
At a press conference Monday Bill Barr said there was no reason to appoint a special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden, and no reason to seize voting machines without evidence of election fraud. On Hunter MORE
Army General Gustave Perna, chief operating officer for Operation Warp Speed, apologized to some state governors Saturday, acknowledging a “miscommunication” with states about how many doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine would initially be available. More MORE
The Trump campaign legal team sent a memo Saturday to dozens of staffers instructing them to preserve all documents relating to Sidney Powell and Dominion Voting Machines in anticipation of potential legal action by the MORE
Did anyone else just figure out that Christmas is a week from today? That was me last night. So today has been spent in the kitchen making treats for the lucky handful who will be getting some goodies — easy on the baking, just some melting chocolate for assorted dipped delicacies. MORE
Officials of the Trump administration and the Biden transition team were trading accusations over the status of some scheduled meetings over national security. Biden spokesperson Yohannes Abraham directly contradicted acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller’s claims MORE
Mike and Karen Pence along with Surgeon General Jerome Adams received the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine this morning. Pence rolled up his short sleeve and later claimed he didn’t feel a thing. NPR
POTUS- and FLOTUS-elect Joe and Jill Biden were interviewed on Stephen Colbert’s Late Show Thursday and spoke of healing a divided nation after a divisive Trump presidency. When asked specifically about his former personal friend MORE
French President Emmanuel Macron, 42, has tested positive for COVID-19 after experiencing symptoms and will self-isolate for a week, according to his office on Thursday. Macron met numerous heads of state and high-level officials in MORE
A Michigan couple will have to pay for disposing of their son’s porn collection that he says was worth around $25,000, and according to the son’s attorney was “irreplaceable.” MORE
People with early COVID-19 could be taking monoclonal antibody treatments, but they are not getting out to patients or to providers. Studies show that the usage of these treatments could reduce hospitalizations by up to MORE
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says the Democratic Party needs new leadership, and should begin with a new Speaker of the House and Senate Minority Leader. Ocasio-Cortez says Democrats have failed to create a succession plan once Pelosi MORE
A Trump HHS appointee urged officials to adopt a herd immunity approach to allow millions of Americans to be infected with COVID-19. Science advisor Paul Alexander was a HHS assistant secretary of public affairs to MORE
Joe Biden’s incoming deputy chief of staff and campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon called GOP lawmakers “a bunch of f—ers” and Mitch McConnell “terrible” in an interview with Glamour. O’Malley Dillon was defending Joe Biden’s MORE
Vice President Mike Pence may be getting the vaccine as early as Friday, even ahead of Donald Trump. Tentative plans are for Pence to get his inoculation on camera. Kayleigh McEnany said that Trump was MORE
Betsy DeVos urged career employees at the Department of Education to “be the resistance” when the Biden administration takes over during a virtual meeting on Tuesday. “Let me leave you with this plea: Resist,” DeVos MORE
Mike and Susan Pompeo had invited over 900 guests to a holiday superspreader party but only a few dozen actually showed up on Tuesday. The event was dedicated to the family members of diplomats overseas MORE