I'm Helene Cooper.
I cover the US military for the New York Times.
So I'm sitting in my car in a parking lot outside the Pentagon.
I had a cubicle with a desk inside the building for years,
but the Trump administration has taken that away.
People in power have always made it difficult for journalists.
It hasn't stopped us in the past.
It's not going to stop us now.
I will keep working to get you the facts.
This work doesn't happen without subscribers to The New York Times.
From The New York Times, it's The Headlines.
I'm Tracy Mumford.
Today's Thursday, May 29th.
Here's what we're covering.
I'm ecstatic.
President Trump's order that I got states, I hereby designate,
direct, and empower the attorney general as my representative.
President Trump has issued a flurry of pardons and commutations this week,
granting clemency to more than two dozen people who had been convicted of a wide range of crimes,
from theft to murder to tax fraud.