In an audacious pre-Christmas round of pardons, President Trump granted clemency on Tuesday to two people convicted in the special counsel’s Russia inquiry, four Blackwater guards convicted in connection with the killing of Iraqi civilians MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Deborah Birx, coordinator of the White House coronavirus response, said Tuesday she plans to retire, but is willing to first help President-elect Joe Biden’s team with its coronavirus response as needed. 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
President Trump’s longtime banker at Deutsche Bank, who arranged for the German lender to make hundreds of millions of dollars of loans to his company, is stepping down from the bank. Ms. Vrablic, 60, said 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
Federal prosecutors have discussed making a legal request for Rudy Giuliani‘s electronic communications, two sources familiar with the probe tell NBC News, a sign that the investigation into President Donald Trump’s personal attorney remains active and MORE
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican’s watchdog office for doctrinal orthodoxy, said it addressed the question after receiving several requests for “guidance” during recent months. The doctrine office noted that bishops, 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
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
With so many Americans struggling with job loss and the ability to put food on their table and keep a roof over their head because of the deadly and devastating Coronavirus, Congress has finally agreed MORE
Just as vaccines begin to offer hope for a path out of the pandemic, officials in Britain on Saturday sounded an urgent alarm about what they called a highly contagious new variant of the coronavirus MORE
The ruling was a sharp rebuke to how COVID-19 restrictions have been applied by state and county leaders, and was cautiously welcomed by some restaurant owners On Wednesday, Superior Court Judge Joel Wohlfeil ruled that MORE
After their warnings had gone largely unheeded for months in the dormant West Wing, Deborah Birx, Anthony S. Fauci, Stephen Hahn and Robert Redfield together sounded new alarms, cautioning of a dark winter to come MORE
Over the past few weeks, President Donald Trump has been imploring his supporters to donate to the “Georgia Election Fund” to support Republicans in the two upcoming Georgia Senate runoffs. The plea has been part of Trump’s 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 U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission explained in newly updated guidance that such a requirement does not violate the Americans with Disabilities Act, which forbids employers from performing medical examinations on employees. A vaccine does MORE
A Kentucky mail carrier had an unusual encounter the other day. Tim Smith is a rural mail carrier in Williamsburg. Tim says he has seen some strange things over the years, but this one takes the cake MORE
Earlier, Mike Pompeo stated that Russia was clearly behind the recent cyber attacks that breached dozens of federal agencies and companies, including the cybersecurity company FireEye. On Saturday, the soon to be gone Idiot in Chief MORE
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday authorized the coronavirus vaccine made by Moderna for emergency use, allowing the shipment of millions more doses across the nation and intensifying the debate over who will be next in line to get inoculated. MORE
December 2020; another day, another death toll larger than 9/11. WORLDOMETER stats: +231,269 new cases yesterday 17.627 million total cases 3.659 million cases in December (last 17 days) 7 day average of 220,690 cases per 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
Officials in multiple states said they were alerted late Wednesday that their second shipments of Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine had been drastically cut for next week, sparking widespread confusion and conflicting statements from Pfizer and federal officials about who 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