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

WASHINGTON — If President-elect Donald Trump’s assertion that the United States should have control of Greenland sounds familiar, that’s because he’s said it before — during his first term as president.

Back in 2019, Trump’s call caused a brief diplomatic tiff with Denmark, under whose sovereignty the vast island falls. Then as now...Read more

The father of an Atlanta federal prison guard who was killed 30 years ago said life in prison without parole is not an adequate punishment for the man who bludgeoned his son to death.

That man, Anthony George Battle, is one of 37 federal inmates whose death sentences were commuted Monday by President Joe Biden.

“I don’t think it’s ...Read more

A Chicago podiatrist who fatally shot a patient who was cooperating in a federal fraud probe of his Medicare billings was among 37 people who had their federal death sentences commuted by President Joe Biden.

In January of 2002, Ronald Mikos, 76, called Joyce Brannon days before she was scheduled testify before a federal grand jury and tried to...Read more

President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 inmates on federal death row Monday, and they will now serve life in prison without the possibility of parole rather than face execution, according to the White House.

Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof, 30, was one of three federal death row inmates who was not given a reprieve by Biden, and ...Read more

Donald Trump hinted he still wants to buy Greenland, a self-ruling territory of Denmark, saying that U.S. ownership and control of the island is an “absolute necessity” for national security.

The U.S. President-elect reopened a debate from 2019, when he offered to buy what is the world’s biggest island, a proposal that was quickly ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced early Monday that he was commuting the death sentences of 37 federal inmates, preventing incoming President Donald Trump from carrying out their executions. The list includes two men sentenced to death for murders committed in Georgia.

Anthony George Battle was convicted by an Atlanta jury of the Dec...Read more

Donald Trump hinted he still wants to buy Greenland, a self-ruling territory of Denmark, saying that U.S. ownership and control of the island is an “absolute necessity” for national security.

The U.S. President-elect reopened a debate from 2019, when he offered to buy what is the world’s biggest island, a proposal that was quickly ...Read more

Let’s stipulate this up front: The Des Moines Register’s poll of the presidential race in Iowa that was published just days before the election was miles off the mark.

The poll, overseen by veteran pollster Ann Selzer, shockingly had Democrat Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump by three points in a state everyone assumed Trump would win ...Read more

The city’s firefighter unions slammed Sunday a decision by lawmakers two days earlier to strip vital health care funds for 9/11 first responders from the federal budget after Elon Musk and Donald Trump nuked a stopgap spending plan, threatening a government shutdown.

“The one thing we were able to fall back on was people wouldn’t forget ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump is nominating Stephen Miran to lead his Council of Economic Advisers, enlisting a former Treasury official who served in Washington during his first administration.

“Steve will work with the rest of my economic team to deliver a great economic boom that lifts up all Americans,” Trump said in a statement Sunday ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump suggested he’s open to meeting Vladimir Putin to discuss ending the war in Ukraine sparked by Russia’s 2022 invasion.

The Russian president offered on Thursday to hold talks with Trump, saying, “I’ll be ready to meet if he wants.” Speaking at his annual news conference, Putin said he doesn’t know when ...Read more

The rivalry between California and Florida reached a high mark in November 2023 when Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, faced off against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, on Fox News over which state held a better model for the country.

Thirteen months later, DeSantis has left the national stage after an aborted presidential run. But his ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump is nominating Stephen Miran to lead his Council of Economic Advisers, enlisting a former Treasury official who served in Washington during his first administration.

“Steve will work with the rest of my economic team to deliver a great economic boom that lifts up all Americans,” Trump said in a statement Sunday ...Read more

The future of California's decades-long dream to one day connect Los Angeles and San Francisco via high-speed rail is again under threat as a Trump administration redux looms.

His selected Cabinet officials and a California congressman have vowed to pull federal funds from the ongoing rail project, which is budgeted at roughly $100 billion more...Read more

The Biden administration is mulling exempting Mexico from tariffs on imported solar equipment, a last-minute change that would primarily benefit Maxeon Solar Technologies Ltd.

The exemption being weighed by senior officials in the waning weeks of Joe Biden’s presidency was described by people familiar with the matter who asked not to be ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The civil rights division of the Justice Department has for decades protected the rights of racial, ethnic and religious minorities, as well as women — the groups that have been the most common victims of illegal discrimination in the U.S.

President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the office, Harmeet Dhillon, has a very ...Read more