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Biden said his pardon of family was meant to shield them from Trump. Thats not the full story.
Jim Biden’s activities have been investigated in recent years in two federal criminal probes, as POLITICO has reported.
03:36 PM on 01/21/2025 Politico Top Stories Russia warns Trump against snatching Panama Canal
“We’re taking it back,” says new U.S. president at his inauguration, triggering blowback from Moscow.
03:36 PM on 01/21/2025 Politico Top Stories January 2025Biden warns of rising democracy-threatening 'oligarchy' in grim farewell speech
He didn’t mention Donald Trump but said no president should be immune from crimes committed while in office.
03:36 PM on 01/21/2025 Politico Top Stories National Guard troops worry Trump will deploy them for mass deportations
“I don’t want to be seen as a Gestapo,” one former senior military official said.
03:36 PM on 01/21/2025 Politico Top Stories 11 Historians Predict How Joe Biden Will Be Remembered
Will he be seen as a total failure? Or the best one-term president in history?
03:36 PM on 01/21/2025 Politico Top Stories We Went to Greenland to Ask About a Trump Takeover
The island’s rare earth minerals and plum Arctic position have turned it into a geopolitical hotspot and the object of American fantasies.
03:36 PM on 01/21/2025 Politico Top Stories Theres More to Trumps Bluster Over the Panama Canal Than You Think
History shows that, while voters may not care about the canal itself, they may care about what it represents.
03:36 PM on 01/21/2025 Politico Top Stories An Expert in Grand Strategy Thinks Trump Is on to Something
Do you want a future in which Canada defects to the EU, Russia rules the Arctic and China runs Latin America? That’s the default outcome of non-action.
03:36 PM on 01/21/2025 Politico Top Stories The Biggest Problem of Our Time: Pete Buttigieg on Post-Truth Politics
One of the Democratic Party’s most skilled communicators explains how difficult it is to sell political accomplishments.
03:36 PM on 01/21/2025 Politico Top Stories The GOP Rivalry That Could Spell Big Trouble for Trump
With Donald Trump's agenda at stake, the top Republican leaders are divided on fundamental questions of strategy.
03:36 PM on 01/21/2025 Politico Top Stories Anita Bryant Is Dead. Her Ideology Is Alive and Well.
The anti-gay crusader popularized a political strategy that today’s Republican Party has eagerly adopted.
03:36 PM on 01/21/2025 Politico Top Stories Laken Riley Act gains steam with Democrats
Some in the party's ranks are turning right alongside the electorate.
01:30 AM on 01/08/2025 Politico Top Stories Is Zuckerberg kneeling to Trump? It's not so simple.
Meta has been pivoting for years, and not just rightward.
01:30 AM on 01/08/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump trades isolationism for expansionism possibly with military force
The president-elect wants to annex Greenland and regain control of the Panama Canal.
01:30 AM on 01/08/2025 Politico Top Stories Greenland, oil and all hell in the Middle East: Takeaways from Trumps Mar-a-Lago press conference
From a new era of American imperialism to an enduring bitterness toward a criminal justice system he maintains unfairly targeted him, here are our top takeaways.
01:30 AM on 01/08/2025 Politico Top Stories Trudeau to Trump on annexation plans: Not a snowballs chance in hell
The Canadian leader struck back at the president-elect’s internet taunts.
01:30 AM on 01/08/2025 Politico Top Stories Its bananas. Its insane. Trump critics seethe over Greenland ambitions.
The U.S. president-elect has referred vaguely to 'national security purposes' in explaining his fixation with owning the Arctic island.
01:30 AM on 01/08/2025 Politico Top Stories Cannon temporarily blocks release of Jack Smith report
The extraordinary move scrambles the final stage of the special counsel’s work.
01:30 AM on 01/08/2025 Politico Top Stories Biden climate event blown off course
The president will establish two national monuments in White House event next week.
01:30 AM on 01/08/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump's oil promises have bigger problems than Biden's new offshore drilling ban
President Joe Biden's move to protect offshore areas is largely symbolic, but the economic factors that may limit oil output gains are very real.
01:30 AM on 01/08/2025 Politico Top Stories He plans to be sworn in as Venezuelas president, and he hopes both Biden and Trump will help him
Edmundo González Urrutia is trying to bolster international support before Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro is sworn in Friday.
01:30 AM on 01/08/2025 Politico Top Stories Tracking Trumps Cabinet picksLive 2024 election results and maps by stateFrom Iowa to Election Day: The 2024 Race, in Photos
Our photographers traveled the country covering the presidential race. Here’s what they saw.
01:30 AM on 01/08/2025 Politico Top Stories 20 Years Before Jan. 6, Al Gore Stood Up to His Own Party. Mike Pence Was Watching.
The certification of the Electoral College vote was once seen as ceremonial. Two moments 20 years apart remind us how high the stakes really are.
01:30 AM on 01/08/2025 Politico Top Stories Trumps World of Peril and Opportunity
This past year reordered domestic politics. 2025 will remake the world’s geopolitical map.
01:30 AM on 01/08/2025 Politico Top Stories Jimmy Carter: The Last Progressive Evangelical
The former president embodied a strain of Christianity that emphasized caring for those on the margins — but was eclipsed by the Religious Right.
01:30 AM on 01/08/2025 Politico Top Stories What Really Happened With the First Officer Suicide After Jan. 6
Howie Liebengood killed himself three days after Jan. 6. His family has no doubt about what really killed him.
01:30 AM on 01/08/2025 Politico Top Stories The Democrats and Republicans Best Positioned Right Now for 2028The anti-Trump resistance roars back with California at the forefront
State Attorney General Rob Bonta has already prepared legal arguments against everything from a possible national abortion ban to Project 2025 targets.
01:30 AM on 01/08/2025 Politico Top Stories Opinion | Biden Should Pardon the Jan. 6 Insurrectionists
Pardoning the insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol doesn’t condone their crimes. But it’s a start at healing a fractured nation.
01:30 AM on 01/08/2025 Politico Top Stories Opinion | Trumps Nominees Falsely Say Im Censoring Conservatives So They Want to Censor Me
Journalists should be accountable to readers — not government censors.
01:30 AM on 01/08/2025 Politico Top Stories The Incredible, World-Altering Black Swan Events That Could Upend Life in 2025
15 futurists, foreign policy analysts and other prognosticators provide some explosive potential scenarios for the new year.
01:30 AM on 01/08/2025 Politico Top Stories Jimmy Carter Wasnt a Liberal
The late former president paved the way for Ronald Reagan.
01:30 AM on 01/08/2025 Politico Top Stories Dark Money Is Tainting Washington Think Tanks. A New Report Shows Its Worse Than You Think.
Foreign governments are throwing millions at D.C. think tanks.
01:30 AM on 01/08/2025 Politico Top Stories Australia Banned Kids From Social Media. Now It Has Advice for the US.
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, says tech companies aren’t doing enough to protect kids online.
01:30 AM on 01/08/2025 Politico Top Stories Patrick McHenry Lets Loose on the Republican Insurgents He Left Behind
The retiring Republican reflects on his transformation over 20 years in Congress.
01:30 AM on 01/08/2025 Politico Top Stories The Ground Is Shifting in American Politics. Here's What I Saw on the Trail.
Politics Editor David Siders has been traveling the country to chronicle how American politics is shifting from the ground up. Here’s what some of the people he visited are thinking heading into 2025.
01:30 AM on 01/08/2025 Politico Top Stories The US Has Deported Immigrants En Masse Before. Heres What Happened. |