(Headline USA) Testimony by Jeffrey Epstein’s ex-girlfriend about her sexual experiences with consenting adults can remain secret when a transcript is released next week, a judge said Tuesday.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska in Manhattan pertained to a July 2016 deposition of Ghislaine Maxwell in a civil...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump pardoned former chief strategist Steve Bannon as part of a flurry of clemency action in the final hours of his White House term that benefited more than 140 people, including rap performers, ex-members of Congress and other allies of him and his family.
The last-minute clemency,...
(Associated Press) President Donald Trump, in one of his final acts of office, released current and former members of his administration from the terms of their ethics pledge, which included a five-year ban on lobbying their former agencies.
The ethics pledge was outlined in one of Trump’s first executive orders, signed...
(Headline USA) Sen. Richard Burr said Tuesday that the Justice Department has told him it will not prosecute him over stock sales made during the coronavirus pandemic, ending an insider trading investigation that led him to at least temporarily step aside from a powerful committee chairmanship last year.
Prosecutors had investigated...
(Headline USA) President-to-be Joe Biden’s far-fetched hopes of quick confirmation of his nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security have been blocked by a Republican senator.
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said Tuesday that he would block a procedural move to bypass full committee consideration of the nomination of Alejandro...
(Headline USA) Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell opened the Senate on Tuesday saying the Trump supporters that stormed the Capitol were “fed lies” by the president and others in the deadly riot to overturn Democrat Joe Biden's election.
McConnell's remarks are his most severe and public rebuke of outgoing President Donald...
(Headline USA) Joe Biden has tapped Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine to be his assistant secretary of health, leaving him poised to become the first transgender federal official to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
A pediatrician and former Pennsylvania physician general, Levine was appointed to his current post by Democratic...
(Headline USA) Joe Biden plans to unveil a sweeping immigration bill on Day One of his administration, hoping to provide an eight-year path to citizenship for an estimated 11 million people living in the U.S. illegally, a massive reversal from the Trump administration's immigration policies.
The legislation puts Biden on track...
(Headline USA) Sen. Josh Hawley has found a new publisher after his book was dropped by Simon & Schuster in the wake of the siege of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump and Antifa agitators.
The conversative publisher Regnery announced Monday that Hawley's “The Tyranny of Big Tech”...
(Headline USA) U.S. defense officials say they are worried about an insider attack or other threat from service members involved in securing Democrat Joe Biden’s inauguration, prompting the FBI to vet all of the 25,000 National Guard troops coming into Washington for the event.
The massive undertaking reflects the extraordinary security...
(Headline USA) Loews Hotels said Saturday it has canceled an upcoming fundraiser for U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, the latest fallout for the Republican lawmaker after the U.S. Capitol uprising.
The Republican senator from Missouri helped staged an Electoral College challenge the day President Donald Trump's supporters, egged on by Antifa agitators,...
(Headline USA) Transgender athletes are eagerly awaiting next week's transition of power as they seek to participate in high school and college sports, flouting gender norms and conventions that have long separated the two sexes based on biological differences that may give some an unfair competitive advantage.
But despite their...