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Two federal judges have granted temporary restraining orders asking for a pause of President Donald Trump’s proposed pause on ...

Weissmann referenced the so-called “ Saturday Night Massacre ” of October 1973, when then-President Richard Nixon fired ...

For those not blinded by partisan politics, there is an obvious difference between Biden’s preemptive pardons and these Trump ...

Half a century ago Congress, the courts, other key institutions within and outside of the government, and the American public ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former President Jimmy Carter has won a posthumous Grammy award.

Former President Jimmy Carter has won a posthumous Grammy award. Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake ...

The Watergate Cake, or at least its predecessor, hails from the 1950s and 60s, a time when bright pale green foods were all ...

During the dismal days that followed Watergate and the resignation of President Richard Nixon, there was a dark-humored joke that made the rounds. It went something like this: As Nixon was making his ...

It’s barely been a week, and the Justice Department has been deeply corrupted. And it sure doesn’t look like there’s anyone ...