The president-elect’s sentencing is scheduled for January 10, though it will almost certainly be appealed. President-elect Donald Trump will almost certain to be the first felon to serve as U.S. president following a ruling on Friday by New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan. Weeks before Trump is set to take office, Merchan upheld Trump’s criminal conviction of 34 counts of falsifying […]
The authority President Joe Biden used could make it difficult for the incoming Trump administration to reverse the sweeping drilling ban. Outgoing President Joe Biden on Monday moved to permanently ban offshore oil and gas drilling across more than 625 million acres of U.S. coastal territory, protecting swaths of the East Coast, the eastern Gulf […]
Washington, DC – In response to recent comments from U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) reaffirmed her support for Denali to remain the officially recognized name of North America’s tallest mountain. “You can’t improve upon the name that Alaska’s Koyukon Athabascans bestowed on North America’s tallest peak, Denali – the Great One,” Senator […]
“In the last six months of his first term, President Trump executed 13 individuals—more than any administration in 120 years,” one critic noted. Republican U.S. President-elect Donald Trump vowed Tuesday that his administration will “vigorously” use capital punishment as part of his “make America safe again” agenda, despite copious evidence that the death penalty does not deter crime, […]