A president can simply intimate that forgiveness is coming, sanctioning his minions to abuse their office with impunity.

U.S. Senate Republicans Tuesday blocked a resolution condemning pardons for supporters of President Donald Trump who violently attacked and injured police officers when they broke into the U.S. Capitol on Jan.

In truth, it would be a relief if Kennedy and Gabbard were merely grossly unqualified. The deeper issue is that Kennedy and Gabbard are anti- qualified. The only conceivable reason to elevate them to the top of the United States’s public health apparatus and intelligence services is to destroy the agencies they have been selected to run.

Patel, like Trump, has taken a different view, saying the rioters have been mistreated by the criminal justice system. A former federal public defender and prosecutor, he has called them “political prisoners” and offered on at least one occasion to represent them for free.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) issued 14 bipartisan subpoenas for Biden-era federal departments to continue COVID-19 origins investigations.

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Power in Washington has grown exponentially, enabled by a populace that looks to Washington to address problems that should be dealt with closer to home.

Dr. Fauci faced regular threats to his life and has received federal protection for years, but his government security detail was abruptly ended this week.

Dr. Fauci, one of the nation’s top health officials for decades, received death threats during the COVID-19 pandemic. He'll now hire his own security.

Vice President JD Vance led a list Republican luminaries who voiced strong agreement with the anti-abortion positions of participants at the annual March for Life amid cold and snowy weather Friday in Washington,

Trump said he would not feel responsible if anything happened to Fauci as a result of his federal security clearances being cut.

In our news wrap Friday, Hamas announced the names of four Israeli hostages it intends to release as part of the ceasefire deal, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said Israeli forces might not withdraw from Lebanon by the deadline set in an agreement with Hezbollah and President Trump ended the government-funded protection detail for Dr.