President-elect Donald Trump slammed President Joe Biden on Tuesday for commuting the death sentences of 37 federal prisoners in an act of holiday clemency.

Trump said relatives of victims are angry that Biden spared the lives of some of the “worst killers in our country,” including inmates convicted in the slayings of police and military ...Read more

BOSTON — Boston Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley praised President Joe Biden’s move to take killers off death row but added he hasn’t gone far enough.

In a statement that has gone viral, Pressley said Biden has made a “groundbreaking act” that was long overdue.

“The death penalty is a racist, flawed, and fundamentally unjust ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump slammed President Joe Biden on Tuesday for commuting the death sentences of 37 federal prisoners in an act of holiday clemency.

Trump said relatives of victims are angry that Biden spared the lives of some of the “worst killers in our country,” including inmates convicted in the slayings of police and military ...Read more

South Korea’s main opposition party is seeking to impeach Acting President Han Duck-soo in a potentially risky move to put maximum pressure on the ruling party.

The Democratic Party intends to wait till Thursday to submit an impeachment motion, according to Yonhap News, delaying its earlier plan to submit on Tuesday. Officials were ...Read more

Numerous East Coast states are counting on offshore wind projects to power tens of millions of homes and to help them transition to cleaner energy.

But putting wind turbines at sea requires the cooperation of a powerful landlord: the federal government. Soon, that government will be led by President-elect Donald Trump, who has frequently ...Read more

Bill Clinton is undergoing testing at Georgetown University Hospital where he was hospitalized Monday for a fever, according to the 42nd president’s deputy chief of staff.

“President Clinton was admitted to Georgetown University Hospital this afternoon for testing and observation after developing a fever,” longtime Clinton associate Angel...Read more

Two Florida men sentenced to death after gunning down a family of four in 2006 are among 37 people on federal death row to have their sentences commuted by President Joe Biden.

Daniel Troya and Ricardo Sanchez Jr. were found guilty in 2009 for the execution-style killings of 28-year-old Jose Luis Escobedo, his 25-year-old wife Yessica, and ...Read more

South Korea’s main opposition party said it will start impeachment proceedings against Prime Minister and Acting President Han Duck-soo.

Park Chan-dae, the floor leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, made the comments at a meeting that was broadcast live on Tuesday. The opposition party said Han has indicated at the cabinet meeting that ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday said he wants to change the name of the highest mountain in North America from Denali back to Mount McKinley.

Alaska's two Republican U.S. senators, Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, immediately pushed back, saying they support the Koyukon Athabascan place name for the mountain. Denali was long favored by ...Read more

Panama President Jose Raul Mulino rallied support from former presidents in defense of the country’s canal following threats from Donald Trump to reimpose U.S. control over the waterway.

Mulino met with three Panamanian leaders on Monday, who all signed a statement asserting the country’s independence and autonomy over the canal.

“As ...Read more

Last week, the Biden administration approved its overarching plan for how to run California’s systems of pumps, canals and reservoirs that serves millions of people and much of the state’s farmland.

The Bureau of Reclamation’s decision Friday ended a four-year effort to overturn the Trump administration’s previous 2019 rules for the ...Read more

Former Maryland governor and commissioner of the Social Security Administration Martin O’Malley has been called to testify before the House Oversight Committee next month about an agreement he signed to allow some Social Security employees to work remotely through 2029.

O’Malley signed the agreement in late November, two days before leaving...Read more

President Joe Biden commuted the federal death sentences of 37 inmates Monday, including three North Carolina inmates sentenced for violent killings.

Aquilia Marcivicci Barnette, Richard Allen Jackson and Alejandro Enrique Ramirez Umaña will all remain in prison for life without the possibility of parole after Biden commuted the sentences of ...Read more

The U.S. House of Representatives will decide Jan. 3 whether to reelect Speaker Mike Johnson to the top GOP job after he faced a contentious vote to avert a government shutdown at the last-minute last week, leaving some Republicans skeptical of his prospects heading into the vote.

All of Minnesota’s four Republican members of Congress say ...Read more

A New England man who was on death row after he “senselessly killed” and was indicted for sending bomb threats to the home of former President George H. W. Bush is on President Biden’s federal death row commutation list.

While 53-year-old Maine man Charles Hall is on the commutation list, Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was left ...Read more

Rep. Ann McLane Kuster wasn’t going to become one of those lawmakers accused of lingering too long in the halls of Congress.

“I think people get into a comfortable pattern,” Kuster said this month, as she wrapped up 12 years representing New Hampshire’s 2nd District.

She led the New Democrat Coalition, a powerful center-left caucus ...Read more

President Joe Biden's commutations Monday of federal prisoners sitting on death row included a Michigan man convicted of killing a woman he was accused of sexual assaulting and suspected in the deaths of at least three others.

Prosecutors said Marvin Charles Gabrion II killed Rachel Timmerman to prevent her from testifying against him .

Having...Read more

Thirty years ago, a New Orleans officer offered protection to an accused drug dealer in exchange for a deadly favor: killing a woman who filed a police brutality complaint against him, court documents say.

At Len Davis’ request, the man shot Kim Marie Groves in the head, killing her in a New Orleans neighborhood the evening of Oct. 13, 1994, ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump has appointed Charlotte native Bo Hines, a former college football player and Republican congressional candidate from North Carolina, to a national leadership role on cryptocurrency.

On Sunday, Trump announced a slate of technology appointments, including that of Bo Hines, who will work alongside “White House A.I....Read more

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated a billionaire with Las Vegas ties as the next United States ambassador to Italy, according to a Saturday announcement.

Tilman Fertitta, 67, is the chairman, chief executive officer and owner of Landry’s Inc., the Houston-based hospitality and entertainment company which operates three Golden Nugget ...Read more