Campaign postmortems show Democrats’ big 2024 election losses were spurred by voter angst over stubbornly high prices, along with lax immigration enforcement from President Joe Biden‘s administration and his late-season replacement as the party’s White House standard-bearer, Vice President Kamala Harris. The economy and immigration policy will soon be the problems of President-elect Donald Trump […]
The House Committee on Veterans Affairs met recently to discuss the topic of regulation and to pick a bone with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. “It is the fundamental duty of this committee,” Chairman Mike Bost (R-IL) said in December 2024, “to make sure that no matter who is in the White House, the […]
President Joe Biden will bestow the nation’s highest honors on 15 veterans and public safety officers at the White House on Friday. The award ceremonies come just one day after Biden issued the nation’s second-highest civilian honors to 20 individuals, including Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) and former Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney. Both have been floated as […]
Across the world, more people voted in 2024 than in any year in history. About half of the world’s adult population got the chance to vote in national elections. Polls of varying degrees of democratic probity were held in more than 60 nations. Many people voted more than once. Some of them voted twice by […]
President Joe Biden will reportedly officially block the purchase of U.S. Steel by Japan’s Nippon Steel due to concerns that the purchase could threaten national security. The president’s decision is expected to be announced as early as Friday. The Japanese corporation had offered to acquire the company for $14.9 billion. Biden’s decision to block the deal […]
California voters decided in November that they wanted to celebrate the holidays and ring in the new year by locking up criminals who are finding out the hard way that their get-out-of-jail-free cards have been revoked. California voters defied the pro-criminal sympathies of Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and other leading state Democrats to pass Proposition […]
The Southeast was a major headline-maker in 2024, with some of the biggest stories in the political world stemming from the region. As a Florida resident prepares to retake the White House this month, here are the ways some of the areas in the South made headlines in 2024. Florida – Red wedding for GOP […]
Incoming GOP freshmen are urging their colleagues to act swiftly to elect Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to a second term so Republicans can immediately begin preparing for President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House and enact his agenda. The House is set to convene on Friday to elect its next speaker, a required procedure […]
President-elect Donald Trump revealed several more appointments on Thursday to his incoming administration. As has been customary since winning the election, Trump made the announcements with a post on his Truth Social account. The president-elect announced two ambassador positions: Benjamin Leon Jr. as the next U.S. ambassador to Spain and Joe Popolo as the next […]
Elon Musk could have retired after making his first fortune with PayPal. He had more than enough money for a lifetime and might have devoted his remaining years to spending it. Instead, he brought his energy and enterprise to Tesla, then SpaceX, then X, and is now throwing himself with the same intensity into politics. […]
