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Just days before President-elect Donald Trump is set to take office, the Department of Justice has announced its decision to withdraw the federal government’s lethal injection protocol on the grounds that it causes unconstitutional suffering. “Because it cannot be said with reasonable confidence that the current execution protocol ‘not only …

President-elect Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary pick, a billionaire who has been accused of evading taxes, says that “the most important economic issue of the day” is extending Trump’s tax cuts for the ultra rich. Scott Bessent spoke about his economic plans while sitting for his confirmation hearing before the Senate …

The Aluminum Age of Hollywood is upon us. In a Truth Social post on Thursday, Donald Trump announced plans to revive Hollywood — which he believes has fallen into disarray over the past four years because of losing business to “foreign countries” — with the appointment of “Special Ambassadors” Jon …

It’s not every day that the highest court in the land talks about the constitutional laws around pornography, but such cases have regularly made for landmark rulings. And should today’s Supreme Court arguments about an age-verification law for websites like Pornhub go down in history, future legal scholars will be …

As fires spread across Los Angeles, so too has a blaze of misinformation and hot takes enflamed the internet. Comedian Bill Burr took aim at the architects of said garbage on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Tuesday night. “I think everyone did a great job,” Burr said of rescue and firefighting efforts. …

Donald Trump has repeatedly bashed Bill Barr since the former attorney general refused to buy into the lie that the 2020 election was rigged. He won’t have that problem with Pam Bondi, should the Senate confirm her as the new leader of the Justice Department. In the aftermath of Trump’s …

Israel and Hamas have reached a ceasefire deal that will bring an end to the 15-month war that has ravaged Gaza, multiple outlets have reported. The agreement will free dozens of hostages kidnapped by Hamas as well as Palestinians held in Israeli prisons. On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas led an …

Attorney General Merrick Garland has released former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on his investigation into President-elect Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The 130-page report is damning, and concludes that “the admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial.” “As …

On Monday, the night before hearings to confirm Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s embattled nominee for Secretary of Defense, were set to begin, The New Yorker reported that Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) —a key vote on the Armed Services Committee — had declined an offer to meet privately with the woman …

Four years ago today, as preparations were underway for the inauguration of then President-elect Joe Biden, National Guard Master Sergeant DeRicko Gaither sent an email warning of a possible “Insider Threat” in the ranks: a guardsman named Pete Hegseth, who, Gaither wrote, had a tattoo of a refrain favored by …