President Donald Trump grants pardons and commutations to over 1,500 individuals involved in the Capitol riot, including several from Arkansas.

In less than 24 hours of becoming president, Donald Trump has kept to his word and pardoned convicted Jan. 6, 2021, participants.

Before watching Donald Trump return to the presidency and take the oath of office as the 47th president Monday, members of Arkansas’ congressional delegation marveled at what was about to take place.

TikTok is owned by ByteDance, which many Republicans, including Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders, have decried as having “significant ties to the Chinese Communist Party.” No critic has been louder than Tom Cotton, who says TikTok is “a Chinese Communist spy app” that “ endangers our national security and poisons our children .”

Multiple Arkansas lawmakers were at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on Monday for Donald Trump's second inauguration.

Praising President Donald Trump for "risking his very life and surviving assassination attempts," Secretary of State Cole Jester bestowed the president on Friday with the Arkansas Diamond Award.

Among the pardoned are Richard "Bigo" Barnett, who became notorious for a photo taken in then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, and Peter Stager, who admitted to beating a police officer with a flagpole.

Senators Tom Cotton and Pete Ricketts said "there's no legal basis" for an extension to keep the social media platform online.

In less than 24 hours of becoming president, Donald Trump has kept to his word and pardoned convicted Jan. 6, 2021, participants. Among the 1,500 eight Arkansasans

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