Senator Joe Manchin called on President Joe Biden to issue a pardon for President-elect Donald Trump, citing the need for balance following Biden’s controversial pardon of his son, Hunter Biden. Speaking to CNN, the West Virginia independent suggested a blanket pardon for Trump to "clean the slate."
A new federal complaint filed in the Central District of California alleges that Shenghua Wen and unnamed co-conspirators "successfully exported at least two shipments of firearms and ammunition to North Korea by concealing the items inside shipping containers that were shipped from Long Beach, California, through Hong Kong, China, to North Korea."
House Republicans are demanding that the inspector general open an investigation into FEMA after the entity allegedly discriminated against Trump supporters in its hurricane relief efforts.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law after accusing the opposition party of "sympathizing with North Korea and of anti-state activities."
Chase Strangio, a transgender-identifying lawyer and co-director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) LGBT & HIV Project, will argue before the Supreme Court this week in a high-stakes case regarding gender transitions for minors. The case, United States v. Skrmetti, challenges Tennessee's law banning irreversible gender transition procedures for children.