The Latest Breaking News from Joseph Biggs

In January Donald Trump will be able to pick up his pardoning pen when he returns to the White House. Several convicts are already vying to be on his clemency list, James Liddell writes

The man Tartaglione tortured was Martin Luna, who he believed had stolen $250,000 from him that was meant to buy cocaine, prosecutors said. The other three victims were friends or family who happened to be out at a club with Luna when Tartaglione and two associates kidnapped them in 2016

Prosecutors asked for longer prison sentences at trial and now seem to be trying again.

When I watched the members of the US far-right group the Proud Boys from afar before and during the Capitol riots of January 6 2021, I thought their name was quite apt. They always seemed proud – arrogant, even – and entitled.