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President Trump on Tuesday announced a pardon of Jon Ponder ahead of the convicted bank robber-turned activist's appearance at the Republican National Convention.Ponder, who founded the nonprofit Hope For Prisoners, will be speaking at the convention, along with Richard Beasley, the FBI agent who arrested him, Fox News is told.Ahead of the Tuesday appearance, the president announced the…

President Trump on Sunday granted an emergency authorization for the usage of convalescent plasma to treat coronavirus patients, dubbing it a “major breakthrough."Speaking to reporters from the White House Sunday, Trump said the FDA has "issued an emergency use authorization... for a treatment known as convalescent plasma.""This is a powerful therapy that transfuses very very strong antibodies…

President Trump announced Sunday that the U.S. government "must" again pursue the death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, after a federal appeals court Friday threw out the death sentence because the judge who oversaw the case did not adequately screen jurors for potential biases.A three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has…

By Laurel Mallory | July 24, 2020 at 2:56 PM EDT - Updated July 24 at 6:13 PM COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control announced 1,921 new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 46 additional deaths on Friday. This brings the total number of people with…

Declaring at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library that "the old paradigm of blind engagement with China has failed," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday announced a new approach toward the Chinese Communist Party (CCP): "Distrust but verify."In stark and sobering remarks, Pompeo warned Americans that "if we bend the knee now, our children's children may be…