On Dec. 12, President Biden granted clemency to about 1,500 people and pardoned 39 convicted of nonviolent crimes, an action the White House described as the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history. Overall, Mr. Biden granted 4,245 acts of clemency during his...

President Trump showed his frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, saying he will impose steep “secondary” tariffs on Russia if the Kremlin doesn’t reach a ceasefire deal with Ukraine within 50 days. He also announced that he would send...

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is not shying from the prospect of running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028. Mr. Beshear has been raising his profile in the wake of the disastrous election cycle for his party last fall, and this week he plans to make a swing thr...

In 1973, OPEC imposed a complete oil embargo against the United States in direct response to America’s support for Israel during the Yom Kippur War that October. The embargo lasted five months, inflicted enormous economic damage on the American economy and caused Ameri...

The Secret Service’s “cascade of preventable failures” in Butler, Pennsylvania, nearly cost President Trump his life last year, and the disciplinary penalties that followed were “far too weak,” a new Senate report concluded. The report, released...

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino and Attorney General Pam Bondi reportedly had a heated exchange this week over how the administration has dealt with the Jeffrey Epstein probe. The disagreement included the alleged assessment of the deceased pedophile’s supposed “...