The candidate considered the frontrunner in the race to chair the Democratic National Committee is proposing a “massive narrative and branding project” to boost the party’s image in the wake of last month’s election losses. Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party chair Ken Martin, a DNC vice chair who has led the association of state Democratic Party chairs, on Tuesday unveiled a 10-point memo titled “A New DNC Framework.” Martin’s memo...

President Joe Biden’s sweeping pardon of his son, Hunter Biden, touched off a flurry of fresh legal speculation Tuesday over how, or if, the younger Biden can move to assert his Fifth Amendment privileges that protect against self-incrimination — and how the broad immunity granted to Hunter could be twisted against him. While Hunter Biden is indeed shielded against prosecution for any federal offenses he “committed or may have committed”...

A Democratic lawmaker is moving to force a vote on releasing the results of the House Ethics Committee’s report into former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla. Rep. Sean Casten, D-Ill., introduced legislation on Tuesday afternoon aimed at mandating a House-wide vote on whether to make the Gaetz report public.  He introduced it as a “privileged resolution,” a mechanism that forces House leaders to consider it within two legislative days...