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Members of the Jan. 6 select committee are privately discussing presidential pardons with the White House days before the return of Donald Trump, who has publicly threatened vengeance against them and other political enemies.

Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), who chaired that congressional panel, told Punchbowl News that he had spoken to the White House counsel's office last month about the possibility of a pre-emptive pardon and would accept one if offered by president Joe Biden, although he said they hadn't directly discussed the topic.

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of defense, was immediately hit with protests as he gave his opening remarks at his confirmation hearing.

The protests came moments after Hegseth began speaking to the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday.

CBS News' Scott MacFarlane, who for years has closely tracked all legal news related to the January 6th, 2021 attack on the United States Capitol building, said that former special counsel Jack Smith's final election subversion report is a "warning" about a second Trump term.

Writing on X, MacFarlane took note of how Smith documented attempts to threaten and intimidate witnesses who had knowledge of Trump's actions leading up to and during the deadly Capitol riots.

MSNBC president Rashida Jones is stepping down just days before Donald Trump returns to the White House.

Rebecca Kutler, senior vice president of content strategy at MSNBC, will step in as interim president effective immediately, although Jones will remain in an advisory role through March, reported the New York Times.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doesn't want Americans to think of him as an antivaccine conspiracy theorist as he seeks confirmation as President-elect Donald Trump's Secretary of Health and Human Services — rather, he wants to be thought of as a guy who wants to end corporate poisoning of the environment, "Make America Healthy Again" and get people off processed foods.

The trouble is, Catherine Rampell wrote for The Washington Post, he'll be working under the administration of a party that has spent years methodically undermining all the programs and laws that make those things possible for lower-income Americans.

The New Yorker's Jane Mayer reports that President-elect Donald Trump's transition team has waged "an intense, and in many ways unprecedented, behind-the-scenes campaign" to "intimidate and silence potential witnesses" who could deliver damaging testimony against Pete Hegseth, the man tapped by Trump to be his next secretary of defense.

Among other things, Mayer reported that Trump's allies are trying to clamp down on stories about Hegseth's alleged alcohol abuse.

A right-wing influencer continued her public feud with Donald Trump's so-called co-president Elon Musk Tuesday.

MAGA cheerleader Laura Loomer has been warning the Trump transition team that Musk, who has become an influential adviser since donating hundreds of millions of dollars to the 2024 campaign, had major conflicts of interest that should keep him from the president-elect's inner circle. She claims the X owner had punished her for speaking out.

CNN crime and justice correspondent Katelyn Polantz on Tuesday broke down damning evidence laid out in former special counsel Jack Smith's final report on President-elect Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

In breaking down Smith's report, Polantz found it remarkable just how much detail the former special counsel puts into documenting Trump's relentless deceit.

A French woman who revealed on TV how she had lost her life savings to scammers posing as Brad Pitt has faced a wave of online harassment and mockery, leading the interview to be withdrawn on Tuesday.

The woman, named as Anne, told the "Seven to Eight" program on the TF1 channel how she had believed she was in a romantic relationship with the Hollywood star, leading her to divorce her husband and transfer 830,000 euros ($850,000).

Queen Elizabeth II was not told officially for nearly a decade that one of her most senior courtiers had admitted he was a Soviet spy, newly declassified British files revealed Tuesday.

Anthony Blunt, an art historian and the Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures overseeing the official Royal Art Collection, confessed in 1964 that he had been a Soviet agent since the 1930s.