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.

(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.

The Supreme Court ponders whether a citizenship question should be included on the 2020 census form. (CNN) - A federal judge in New York said on Tuesday that the Justice Department cannot swap out its legal team in the census citizenship question case. Trump is still considering an executive order in an effort to force a citizenship question onto the 2020 census, according to officials familiar with the situation. "I have long heard that the appointment of Supreme Court Justices is a President's most important decision. There are two other live challenges over the 2020 census and its inclusion of a citizenship question before other federal judges.