In Dueling Pardons, an Intensified Fight Over the Meaning of Jan. 6

President Trump’s grant of clemency to those who assaulted the Capitol in his name four years ago clashed with his predecessor’s decision to shield from retribution those who had sought to hold him to account.

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DeSantis Adopts ‘Gulf of America’ Language Even Before a Trump Order

The Florida governor used the wording in issuing a state of emergency over a cold snap expected in his state.

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Trump Grants Sweeping Clemency to All Jan. 6 Rioters

The extraordinary pardons and commutations extended to those who committed both violent and nonviolent crimes on Jan. 6, including assaulting police officers and seditious conspiracy.

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Trump Withdraws U.S. from World Health Organization

Public health experts say U.S. withdrawal from the W.H.O. would undermine the nation’s standing as a global health leader and make it harder to fight the next pandemic.

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Trump Commutes Sentence of Stewart Rhodes, Oath Keepers Founder

The move, in effect, validated the far-right leader’s defiant claim that his criminal prosecution was a kind of political persecution.

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A Day of Triumph, Jubilation and Gloating in Washington

There were Proud Boys, billionaires, stiletto heels, cowboy hats, the Village People, icy cold and happy Canadians at President Trump’s inaugural.

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Trump Demands Search for Political Bias in Justice Dept., Other Agencies

His ‘weaponization’ executive order begins with a list of misleading accusations against the Biden administration.

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Packed In for Trump’s Indoor Inauguration, Awkwardness Abounds

Tech billionaires, foreign leaders, ex-presidents and political nemeses. How did everyone behave?

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‘A Quiet Force’: Harris Returns Home After Making History in Washington

The former vice president’s first acts as a nonelected official for the first time in decades could be a sign of what comes next.

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Border Patrol Agent Is Killed in Vermont Shooting

Officials said the agent was shot “in the line of duty” on Interstate 91, which was closed for several hours near the border with Canada.

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