Our villains are growing more theatrical while our heroes are shunned. Pity the poor citizens of Gotham. At any point a resident could just be walking down the street and some murderous theater kid in tights might start blowing up buildings. Gotham taxpayers’ life savings are constantly being stolen from city banks, so their FDIC budget is probably more than what they spend on national defense. There’s about an 80 percent chance any first date is ruined by a high-speed chase in which...

President-elect Donald Trump revived talk of abolishing birthright citizenship during an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Dec. 8, saying he was “absolutely” going to end the policy. Trump also raised the issue in his first presidential campaign in 2016, but he never followed through with a promised executive order to challenge the longstanding  interpretation of the 14th Amendment, which grants citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States.” Host...

In a recent Meet the Press interview, President-elect Donald Trump claimed he’s open to working with Democrats on legislation that could keep DREAMers — undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children — in the country. His own track record, however, casts doubt on just how serious this commitment is. “I want to be able to work something out,” Trump said during an exchange with NBC News’s Kristen Welker, when pressed on if he wanted DREAMers to stay in the...

President Biden said Thursday he is commuting the sentences of 1,500 people, the most ever in a single day. He is also pardoning 39 people convicted of nonviolent crimes. “America was built on the promise of possibility and second chances,” Mr. Biden said. Mr. Biden flexed his clemency powers weeks after he did an about-face and pardoned his son, Hunter Biden, for tax and gun offenses despite saying for months he would not grant him relief.

U.S. President Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of around 1,500 people who were released from prison to home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic, marking the largest single-day clemency action in the country's modern history. Biden also pardoned 39 people convicted of nonviolent crimes in an effort to promote second chances and address the problems with the nation's criminal justice system. The commutations, announced on Thursday, affect those who have served at least...

President Biden on Thursday commuted the sentences of 1,500 Americans who were placed in home confinement during the pandemic and pardoned another 39 people in what the White House said is the record for clemency in a single day. Why it matters: Several members of Congress in both parties had pushed Biden to make broader use of his clemency powers in the wake of his highly unpopular decision to pardon his son Hunter Biden. Until now, Biden had only...

President Biden will commute the sentences of around 1,500 people, in the largest single-day act of clemency for any president in modern U.S. history. The commutations, announced in a statement Thursday, are for people who were released from prison and placed in home confinement during the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition to the commutations, Biden is also pardoning 39 Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes. Prisons became fertile breeding grounds for infection during the pandemic and...

President Joe Biden announced Thursday that he is commuting the sentences of some 1,500 individuals and pardoning 39 people convicted of non-violent crimes – marking a broad use of the presidential clemency power just weeks from the end of Biden’s administration. White House officials are billing Thursday’s move as the biggest single-day act of clemency in modern history. The president, who has come under growing pressure to grant more clemencies before he leaves office, also promised...

President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday night announced that former Arizona GOP Senate nominee Kari Lake will be the next director of the U.S. government's "Voice of America" (VOA) news agency. Lake, who ran for Arizona governor in 2022 and the Senate in 2024, worked as a news anchor for more than two decades, the former president said.  Trump said Lake will work alongside the next leader of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, who has not been announced so far. Both VOA and...

President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he wants ally Kari Lake to be the next director of the Voice of America, a federal network that's part of the U.S. Agency for Global Media. Trump said on Truth Social that Lake would be nominated by the next head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, a pick he said he would announce "soon." Trump said Lake would "ensure that the American values of Freedom and Liberty are broadcast around the World FAIRLY...