Susan Ferrechio has been writing about politics and national news for more than three decades, providing coverage through six presidents and eight House speakers. She writes about politics and other top national issues for The Washington Times. Her coverage includes Congress, the presidency, elections, and energy policy with an emphasis on stories ignored by other media. She first joined The Washington Times in 1995 then moved to The Miami Herald, followed by Congressional Quarterly and The Washington Examiner, where she served as chief congressional correspondent and provided coverage for four presidential campaign cycles and countless congressional and senate races. She returned to The Washington Times in 2022 and serves as national politics correspondent. Susan has provided commentary for Fox News, MSNBC, NEWSMAX, ABC News, NewsNation, WMAL Radio, CSPAN and the McLaughlin Group. She can be reached at sferrechio@washingtontimes.com.
No ex-president has ever been jailed, but former President Donald Trump could spend the rest of his life in prison if convicted on the dozens of charges he faces in three criminal cases.
The Bidens' ex-business partner Devon Archer told lawmakers Monday that President Biden's family "was in the business of influence peddling" and that Mr. Biden's 20-plus phone calls into business meetings were central to son Hunter Biden's strategy for cutting lucrative deals.
Halfway through Devon Archer's closed-door testimony before a House committee probing the Biden family's foreign business deals, a Democrat emerged to say there's no evidence President Biden was involved in the deals.
Biden family business associate Devon Archer arrived at a congressional office building Monday to deliver a closed-door deposition to lawmakers investigating whether President Biden was involved in influence-peddling schemes.
A state judge on Friday rejected efforts by theme park giant Disney to throw out a state lawsuit challenging a "back room deal" that attempted to block the state from ending the park's unique autonomy.
Fledgling GOP presidential candidate Will Hurd learned the hard way Friday night just how popular former President Trump is among Iowa voters, getting booed by the crowd after taking a dig at Mr. Trump's legal woes at a GOP candidates dinner.
Devon Archer, the former Biden family business associate set to provide closed-door testimony to congressional investigators on Monday, will likely be in no mood to shield the first family from incrimination in shady foreign deals.
Former President Donald Trump said his lawyers warned federal prosecutors Thursday that another round of criminal charges against him would be unjustified and would destroy an already divided nation.
House lawmakers Thursday clashed over gender transition medical treatments for children, procedures that are on the rise despite criticism it is damaging, irreversible and is performed on confused adolescents.
Hunter Biden could face federal charges related to his failure to register as a foreign agent before he cut lucrative deals with Ukraine, China and other countries where his politically powerful father held sway.
The top lawyers in the U.S. attorney's office in Delaware, one of them a Democratic donor, appeared to work in tandem to thwart an investigation into claims that President Biden and his son Hunter collected a $10 million bribe while Mr. Biden was serving as vice president.
Evidence is piling up showing President Biden was involved in his family's shady foreign business deals, while looming testimony from a former associate could make it harder for the White House to refute charges of influence peddling and bribery.
Former President Donald Trump, up by double digits over every GOP opponent in the critical early-voting state of Iowa, took a swing at the state's popular Republican governor -- and it may have backfired.
Former President Donald Trump, who is already facing dozens of felony charges in separate state and federal criminal cases, could be indicted in weeks, if not days, on new charges related to his actions in Georgia following the 2020 election.
A federal judge who excoriated the Biden administration for pressuring social media platforms to censor Americans' speech shined a light on a group of obscure but powerful White House staffers who leaned on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other sites to remove posts and ban users whose content they opposed.
Electric bikes, which are rapidly growing in popularity, are posing an increasing safety risk due to fast-spreading fires caused by the lithium ion batteries that power them.
A group of Republican House and Senate lawmakers have asked special counsel Henry Kerner to discipline IRS and Justice Department officials who may have retaliated against two whistleblowers who told Congress that Hunter Biden received preferential treatment in a tax fraud probe.
A White House scheduling email sent to then-Vice President Joseph R. Biden ahead of a call with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was also sent to his son Hunter who was serving on the board of a Ukrainian energy firm looking to escape a corruption probe.
One of the Biden family's closest business associates told the FBI that President Biden met with Chinese energy company officials on behalf of his son Hunter on several occasions.