JERUSALEM (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday granted a full pardon to Aviem Sella, the handler of convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, as part of the outgoing president’s spree of clemency actions in his last hours in office. Pollard, a former Navy intelligence analyst, sold military secrets to Israel […]
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President-elect Joe Biden and incoming Vice President Kamala Harris will be sworn into office Wednesday at the 59th presidential inauguration in U.S. history. The pair are due to take the oath of office in front of the US Capitol at around noon, and will be joined by an array of […]
For three hours on Sunday, Sir Richard Branson sat glued to a computer live stream that showed his rocket company try once again to get to orbit. He was on his Necker Island retreat in the Caribbean; they were flying out over the Pacific, attempting to demonstrate how you could […]
The United States hit a grim milestone and surpassed 400,000 coronavirus deaths on Tuesday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. That figure is more than the number of Americans who died during World War I, the Korean War and the Vietnam War combined and nearly the same number who […]
image copyrightGetty Images image captionSecurity is tight around the US Capitol where the inauguration ceremony will be held Joe Biden is to be sworn in as US president, taking the helm of a nation wracked by political division, economic anguish and an unrelenting pandemic. Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris will take the […]
President Trump on Tuesday night pardoned former top campaign aide and White House strategist Steve Bannon, who was arrested for an alleged scam involving private donations to build a border wall with Mexico. Reuters cited senior administration officials saying that Trump had pardoned Bannon. An official statement from the White […]
My fellow Americans: Four years ago, we launched a great national effort to rebuild our country, to renew its spirit, and to restore the allegiance of this government to its citizens. In short, we embarked on a mission to make America great again — for all Americans. As I conclude […]
Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday in a ceremony that will keep with tradition while being unlike any other inauguration in U.S. history. There will be pomp, ceremony, former presidents, congressional leaders, A-list performers, parades and tributes to the troops […]