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An embattled former county clerk in Colorado who is serving a nine-year sentence for her efforts to help President Donald Trump overturn the results of the 2020 election asked the Colorado Court of Appeals to recognize the president's pardon of her, according to a new report.

The Associated Press reported on Wednesday that lawyers for Tina Peters asked the appeals court to recognize Trump's pardon, citing George Washington's pardons of those who participated in the Whiskey Rebellion in 1795. Presidential pardons do not cover state crimes, although Peters' lawyers are asking the appeals court to make an exception.

The Department of Justice dropped an announcement on Christmas Eve that the full disclosure of the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files, which was supposed to have concluded by now under a law passed by Congress, will instead take weeks more.

"The US Attorney for the Southern District of New York and the FBI have informed the Department of Justice that they have uncovered over a million more documents potentially related to the Jeffrey Epstein case," stated the official X account for the agency. "The DOJ has received these documents from SDNY and the FBI to review them for release, in compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, existing statutes, and judicial orders. We have lawyers working around the clock to review and make the legally required redactions to protect victims, and we will release the documents as soon as possible."

President Donald Trump has boasted that Harvard University is on the brink of capitulating to a deal with the administration after months of government attacks and moves to pull funding from the storied institution. But according to The New York Times, recent email communications show the talks are going nowhere.

A huge sticking point, according to reporter Michael Schmidt, is that the administration wants to shake down Harvard for $200 million, which university officials consider to be out of the question.

President Donald Trump may have just created the "kryptonite" that brings down his second administration, according to a new report.

Trump's MAGA movement coalition has started to crack in recent weeks over the administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, which Trump promised to release in full during his 2024 presidential campaign. The administration has sought to withhold files from the public, and the Justice Department has said it "needs more time" to comply with a discharge petition that required it to release all of the files by December 19.

"The Kennedy Center Honors" reportedly drew its lowest ratings ever after President Donald Trump announced he would host the event.

"According to preliminary Nielsen data, 'The Kennedy Center Honors' on CBS drew its smallest audience ever on the night of December 23, 2025, averaging an estimated 2.65 million viewers," Programming Insider reported on Wednesday. "To put that in perspective: the 2024 broadcast averaged 4.1 million."

A legendary filmmaker revealed what America's Founding Fathers would likely consider the "most disturbing" part of President Donald Trump's second administration in an interview with CNN.

Trump's second administration has been marked by his swift efforts to amass executive power. Trump has attacked independent agencies, fired multiple independent watchdogs, and sought to take control of the federal purse.

CBS News' newly-appointed right-wing chief, Bari Weiss, doubled down in an email to staff on her decision to delay a "60 Minutes" investigation into the way migrants President Donald Trump has sent to the Salvadoran CECOT megaprison are being tortured, some without having any criminal record or violation of the law whatsoever.

Weiss, who founded The Free Press, was given control of CBS as part of a Trump administration-approved merger between the network's parent company, Paramount, and Skydance.

Top Democrats on the foreign affairs and armed services committees sounded off against President Donald Trump's latest turn toward China in a recent letter, according to a new report.

Fox News reported on Wednesday that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY) sent a letter to Under Secretary for Industry and Security Jeffrey Kessler on Monday regarding Trump's decision to allow Nvidia to sell its H200 chips to China.

Podcast host Joe Rogan blasted President Donald Trump for distorting history with his so-called Presidential Walk of Fame.

During his Tuesday podcast, Rogan and comedian Tom Segura discussed recent changes at the White House.

When it became clear that Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) was going to drop out of the race to challenge Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, allies of President Donald Trump privately reached out begging her to change her mind, but to no avail.

Stefanik, a former moderate Republican lawmaker turned hard MAGA loyalist in the Trump era, announced her campaign to great fanfare and a few widely-mocked stumbles in early November, vowing to defeat Democrats in a staunchly liberal bastion state. But after just a few weeks, she announced she is ending her campaign and retiring from Congress to spend more time with her family.