Thirteen death row inmates were put to death in seven months after the Trump administration resumed federal executions last July. According to the Associated Press, executioners likened the deaths by lethal injection to falling asleep—in sworn accounts they called gurneys “beds” and referred to final breaths as “snores.” The “sanitized” accounts of the executions at the U.S Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, differed drastically from the reports provided by AP and other eyewitnesses, who described how the stomachs of inmates “rolled, shook and shuddered” as the pentobarbital injections took effect, according to AP....

“Heartwarming to read new polls on big-shot warmonger Liz Cheney of the great State of Wyoming. She is so low that her only chance would be if vast numbers of people run against her which, hopefully, won’t happen,” Trump said in a statement. “They never liked her much, but I say she’ll never run in a Wyoming election again!” Cheney had debunked Trump’s unsubstantiated claims about his 2020 election loss earlier in the day....

On Monday, the New York Post reported that Cheney declined to rule out a potential presidential run. “I’m not ruling anything in or out—ever is a long time,” she said. “I think we have a huge number of interesting candidates, but I think that we’re going to be in a good position to be able to take the White House.” Cheney, the No. 3 House Republican, has frequently been targeted by Trump and his allies after she sided with Democrats in voting to impeach the ex-president for a second time for his alleged role in inciting the January 6 Capitol riot....

Donald Trump Jr. spoke on Fox News’ Hannity Thursday to discuss crime rates across the U.S., President Joe Biden and tensions between America and Russia. On Twitter, a clip of him speaking on Sean Hannity’s show has been viewed at least 450,000 times. Trump Jr. said that suggestions of a cyberattack were lies to bring the U.S. into another war and distract from domestic issues. “[Biden] has fixed exactly zero, Sean....

The Iowa caucuses ended in a chaotic mess last night. After the event concluded, news emerged that its results had been severely delayed due to technical difficulties related to user-error problems with a new mobile app. Wth still no results to be seen on Tuesday morning, the Iowa Democratic Party (IDP) announced that results will be released at 5 p.m. ET. But when that time came, the IDP only released early and incomplete results, which accounted for 62 percent of the state’s roughly 1,700 precincts....

Trump Jr. made his comments during an interview on the podcast The Truth with Lisa Boothe. “This guy’s not a scientist, he’s a bureaucrat in a lab coat—nothing more, nothing less,” Trump Jr. said. “He’s incompetent. He was in government because he probably couldn’t have made it in the private sector.” Fauci has an extensive research portfolio on infectious diseases. He has advised seven U.S. presidents and has worked on over 1,300 scientific publications, according to the website for the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)....

Trump responded to comments that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) could filibuster a move to override the president’s veto of the defense funding bill unless a vote is held on the $2,000 checks. Replying to details of this potential move, Trump wrote on Twitter: “Give the people $2000, not $600. They have suffered enough!” Newsweek has contacted the White House for further comment. Trump previously called for $2,000 checks before signing the latest relief legislation, which included checks of up to $600 per individual....

The survey, conducted after the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, found just 33 percent of registered voters approve of the way Trump is handling his job as president—tying his all-time low approval rating set in August 2017. A majority of voters (60 percent) said they disapprove of Trump’s job performance. Still, the president enjoyed support from his conservative base as 71 percent of self-identified Republicans gave Trump their approval....

D’Antonio, a Pulitzer Prize-winner who wrote the 2016 book The Truth About Trump, spoke to CNN on Friday about what he called the president’s “buffoonery.” He is a contributor to the network. “He is profoundly an incompetent person—a loser, if you might say,” D’Antonio said, using an insult Trump is famously fond of lobbing at his critics and political opponents. “He’s so incompetent that he cannot even succeed at being a loser,” he said....

During a Saturday episode of The Mary Trump Show, the former president’s niece spoke about the presence of the Secret Service at Trump hotels. “…the soon-to-be deceased Trump Organization charged the Secret Service like five times the government limit to stay at his sh**** hotels, we’re learning,” Mary Trump said. “We’ve learned that—and this to me, I will never cease to understand why this wasn’t made a bigger deal—that he politicized it....

The payment was made by Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, during the 2016 presidential campaign. Daniels, whose birth name is Stephanie Clifford, said that she and Trump had an affair in 2006 just after Trump’s wife, Melania Trump, had given birth to their son, Barron Trump. Cohen received a three-year prison sentence in 2018 for lying to investigators about the payment. On Thursday, the FEC, which has three Republican commissioners and three Democratic commissioners, announced its decision....

A day after warning the U.S. was “locked and loaded depending on verification” of who and what was behind Saturday’s blasts at the Abqaiq oil-processing facility and Khurais oil field in eastern Saudi Arabia, Trump directly named Iran as a possible culprit in a tweet. He referenced a previous incident in June, when Iran’s Revolutionary Guards shot down a U.S. Navy drone they claimed had breached their country’s airspace in an account disputed by the Pentagon....

“The News Reports about the Department of Commerce dropping its quest to put the Citizenship Question on the census is incorrect or, to state it differently, FAKE!” Trump tweeted. “We are absolutely moving forward, as we must, because of the importance of the answer to this question.” Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who oversees the census, said in a statement Tuesday that “I respect the Supreme Court but strongly disagree with its ruling regarding my decision to reinstate a citizenship question on the 2020 Census....

Speaking to reporters outside the White House, Trump said that Kim “was so happy to see me” during his hastily-arranged visit to the demilitarized zone with South Korean President Moon Jae-in. Accompanied by Moon, Trump approached Kim at the border in the first-ever meeting of its kind and then became the first sitting U.S. president to cross into North Korea, with both men expressing warm sentiments months after bilateral talks fell through in February....

The panel issued a letter to Trump on Friday, demanding testimony from the former president and saying he “personally orchestrated and oversaw” a multi-part effort to overturn the result of the 2020 election. Trump railed against the subpoena during a rally in Robston, Texas, on Saturday night to support his endorsed candidates in the state. He continued to push false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him due to widespread voter fraud....

We know about his relationship with Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, but the two-time NFL MVP was always quiet about his politics. He’d say Trump is a “fun guy” that he hung around with a few times, but ultimately said politics were “way off my radar.” Well, according to Trump, Brady is at least supporting the republican candidate. MORE: Sports figures who support Donald Trump Per the New York Times:...

Judge James Welsh, a retired Missouri Court of Appeals judge, heard the evidentiary hearing that led to Strickland’s release in a first-of-its-kind case in the state. Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker used a new state law to request the hearing in August, claiming that most of the evidence used to convict Strickland had been recanted or disproven over the last 42 years. Strickland was imprisoned as one of four accused shooters who killed Larry Ingram, 21; John Walker, 20; and Sherrie Black, 22, at a home in Kansas City in 1978....

The aspiring goalkeeper always looked like he belonged in the big leagues but even Marinella and her husband Alfonso were taken aback by the phone call they received from their son on the evening of October 24, 2015. NxGn: World’s top 50 teenage talents “Dad! Mum! I’m playing tomorrow,” Gigio enthused. “Will you come and watch me?!” “I thought he was joking with us,” Alfonso admitted. “My boy, at 16, in Serie A, playing for Milan against Sassuolo!...

The driver, who police have not identified, was making deliveries in Hazel Crest, Illinois—just south of Chicago—last Wednesday with his girlfriend when he was bringing a McDonald’s order to the customer, The Chicago Sun-Times reported. During the delivery, the driver got out of his car to drop off the order when 17-year-old Corey Lesser allegedly jumped in the front seat, pointed a gun at the driver’s girlfriend and demanded she exit the car, the newspaper reported....