President Donald Trump made good on his campaign promise to pardon defendants charged with crimes in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.

Sanders then said that the three wealthiest men in the United States, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg had sat behind the president at his inauguration, adding that their wealth has increased by $233 billion since Trump won the 2024 presidential election. "They couldn't be happier," Sanders said.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, who was just sworn in for his fourth six-year term, appears to be gearing up for a 2030 reelection bid. Sanders, an independent, filed candidacy papers for the 2030 election with the Federal Election Commission on Monday, according to the agency's website.

The Vermont senators and representative gave a joint statement expressing their concern of this "authoritarian" decision to freeze federal grants.

After leading the nonprofit digital news organization through floods and transformational elections over the past four years, Heintz plans to return to reporting and writing.

A woman from Washington state has been charged in connection with the fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont.