President Joe Biden’s sweeping pardon of his son, Hunter Biden, touched off a flurry of fresh legal speculation Tuesday over how, or if, the younger Biden can move to assert his Fifth Amendment privileges that protect against self-incrimination — and how the broad immunity granted to Hunter could be twisted against him. While Hunter Biden is indeed shielded against prosecution for any ...

In the waning days of the Biden administration, President-elect Trump is bucking his predecessor’s ‘don’t’ doctrine as a deterrent to foreign adversaries, instead issuing tough warnings before even taking office.  ‘If the hostages are not released prior to January 20, 2025, the date that I proudly assume Office as President of the United States, there will be ALL HELL TO ...

A Democratic U.S. congressman on Monday said it appears that certain people are ‘above the law’ after President Biden pardoned his son, Hunter Biden, despite repeatedly saying he would not give his son a pass. Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., responded to Biden’s decision to pardon Hunter on social media, blasting the president’s own words from earlier this year that ‘no ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says President-elect Donald Trump is in the ‘right place’ when it comes to his warning of there being ‘hell to pay’ if Hamas doesn’t release their remaining hostages.  ‘President Trump put the emphasis in the right place, on Hamas, and not on the Israeli government, as is customary [elsewhere],’ Netanyahu said Tuesday at the beginning ...

Critics of ‘deep state’ foe Kash Patel, President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, call the veteran official a ‘danger’ to the U.S. who will politicize the bureau – but a review of the agency’s recent history shows the upper echelon of the FBI has long had a politicization problem, and Patel says he’s just the man to end it. ...

A Democratic lawmaker is moving to force a vote on releasing the results of the House Ethics Committee’s report into former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla. Rep. Sean Casten, D-Ill., introduced legislation on Tuesday afternoon aimed at mandating a House-wide vote on whether to make the Gaetz report public.  He introduced it as a ‘privileged resolution,’ a mechanism that forces House ...

A senior GOP lawmaker is getting creative with his campaign to chair the House Foreign Affairs Committee next year. Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., is giving fellow lawmakers chips from the Berlin Wall, according to a photo provided by a source to Fox News Digital. An inscription accompanying the chip suggests Wilson got the pieces himself nearly 35 years ago, an ...

Israel issued a direct warning to Lebanon on Tuesday and said it will no longer distinguish between Hezbollah and the country should the tenuous cease-fire with the terrorist group collapse. ‘There will no longer be an exemption for the state of Lebanon,’ Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said, according to the Times of Israel, adding that Jerusalem will ‘show maximum ...

An intriguing aspect of President Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter – which was utterly predictable, and predicted, notwithstanding the president’s repeated, indignant insistence that it would never happen – is the sweep of the clemency order. Biden didn’t limit his son’s insurance against future prosecution to the two cases – criminal gun and tax prosecutions – on which he’s been found ...

Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., announced on Tuesday that he would be joining the House of Representatives’ DOGE Caucus, becoming the first Democrat in the now-biparisan group. He advocated for removing the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) from the purview of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), something floated by several Republican lawmakers months ago. ‘Today I will join the Congressional DOGE Caucus, because ...