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A Jan. 6 rioter who was pardoned by President Trump and released from prison last week is being sought on preexisting charges in Texas of soliciting a minor online. The district attorney in Harris County, Texas, said on Tuesday that his office was searching for Andrew Taake, who at the time of the Capitol riot…
Who are the hostages being released? The 33 hostages being released in the first phase include female soldiers and civilians, children, men over age 50 and sick and wounded “humanitarian” cases. Three hostages — Romi Gonen, Emily Damari and Doron Steinbrecher — were released on the first day of the cease-fire in exchange for about…
In December 2023, Angela McArdle, the chair of the Libertarian Party, flew to Mar-a-Lago to meet with Donald J. Trump. Mr. Trump wanted to know how to win over libertarian voters, a constituency he thought could help him reclaim the presidency, Ms. McArdle said in an interview. She had an answer: Free Ross Ulbricht, a…
President Trump on Tuesday granted a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk Road drug marketplace and a cult hero in the cryptocurrency and libertarian worlds. In doing so, Mr. Trump fulfilled a promise that he made repeatedly on the campaign trail as he courted political contributions from the crypto industry, which spent…
The effort to prosecute the violent mob that ransacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and the leaders of far-right groups who egged them on, represented the biggest and most logistically complex investigation in the history of the Justice Department. President Donald J. Trump erased it in an instant on Inauguration Day. Mr. Trump has…
President Biden pardoned five members of his family in his last minutes in office, saying in a statement that he did so not because they did anything wrong but because he feared political attacks from incoming President Donald J. Trump. “My family has been subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire…
President Biden moved just hours before leaving office on Monday to guard some of President-elect Donald J. Trump’s most high-profile adversaries against a promised campaign of “retribution” by issuing pre-emptive pardons to head off politically driven prosecutions. Among those receiving the pardons were Gen. Mark A. Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of…
President Biden pardoned five activists and public servants on Sunday, including a posthumous grant of clemency to the civil rights leader Marcus Garvey, who mobilized the Black nationalist movement and was convicted of mail fraud in 1923. Mr. Biden also commuted the sentence of two other people who are serving sentences for crimes that they…
President Biden criticized Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, on Friday for deciding to abandon its fact-checking program on Facebook and Instagram, calling it a “shameful” decision that undermines America’s commitment to telling the truth. Responding to a question by a reporter, Mr. Biden said he believed people in the United States “want to…
