It’s been a lingering question since the election: How long can a partnership between two billionaires who love being the center of attention last.

The Justice Department is rescinding its protocol for federal executions that allowed for single-drug lethal injections with pentobarbital.

Through eight hearings, 20 live witnesses and dozens of hours of recorded testimony, the House Jan. 6 committee has focused its case squarely on former President Donald Trump.

Instead of convincing Donald Trump's most loyal supporters of his misdeeds, the revelations from the hearings into the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol are prompting many of them to reassert their views that he was correct in falsely asserting a claim to victory.

House investigators are trying to make a methodical case that President Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election led directly to the insurrection by his supporters at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

WASHINGTON – Outgoing Attorney General William Barr's decision to appoint a special counsel to investigate the handling of the Russia probe ensures his successor won't have an easy transition. But the maneuvering over the special counsel is especially significant because it saddles Democrats with an investigation that they've derided as tainted. A special counsel can only be dismissed for cause. The Biden transition did not respond to a request for comment on the special counsel appointment. But Barr's decision could influence whom the president-elect puts forth as a nominee for attorney general.

LANSING, Mich. – President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, will appear before the Michigan House Oversight Committee Wednesday evening. He will discuss the allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 General Election. As of Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020, no judge has seen any evidence on which to rule. The Michigan Legislature has two committees listening to claims about election irregularities. A Michigan Senate hearing, where those who identified themselves as GOD poll watchers made claims about the vote-counting process at the TCF Center, lasted seven hours.

(CNN) - President Donald Trump on Saturday promoted a conspiracy theory linking the Clinton family to the death of multimillionaire and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, the latest instance of Trump propagating baseless conspiracy theories and falsehoods. Both Trump and Bill Clinton were friendly with Epstein in previous decades, but Trump seized on the conspiracy theory Saturday in his latest dig at the Clintons. Angel Urea, a spokesman for the former president, called the conspiracy theory "ridiculous, and of course not true." Trump was not the only official in his administration to promote the Epstein-Clintons conspiracy theory. On Sunday, two 2020 Democratic presidential candidates called out Trump for retweeting the Epstein conspiracy theory and the President's history of spreading baseless claims.

CNNWASHINGTON - The U.S. federal government announced Thursday that it would resume capital punishment after nearly two decades. After a 2-decade lapse in federal capital punishment, AG Bill Barr has ordered the Bureau of Prisons to schedule executions for 5 death-row inmates convicted of murdering children. Daniel Lewis Lee, a member of a white supremacist group, murdered a family of three, including an eight-year-old girl. On March 16, 2004, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas found Bourgeois guilty of multiple offenses, including murder, and he was sentenced to death. Honkens execution is scheduled to occur on Jan. 15, 2020.

CNN learned Monday evening that the Justice Department has requested at least two litigators from the department's Office of Immigration Litigation to join the census litigation. The Justice Department declined to comment, and did not say if anyone from the Office of Immigration Litigation volunteered. Trump could take action this week, administration officials said, citing a need to act quickly since census forms are already being printed. "And that's another place where you'll probably see a contempt action on the part of the House of Representatives on the Trump administration." A Justice Department official dismissed the idea of an insurrection within the agency, as some outside experts have suggested could have happened.