Authorities said Luigi Mangione, whom police suspect killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, was not insured by the company. NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny announced on Thursday that there are no records of Mangione being insured by UnitedHealth Group, the country’s largest health insurance company. “We have no indication that he was ever a client […]
In a critical shift from his 2016 transition that allies believe will make his first 100 days a MAGA tour de force, President-elect Donald Trump has rewritten the master White House hiring plan to produce a team loyal to his agenda and not the Washington swamp. In giving a team of his closest advisers the […]
French President Emmanuel Macron announced he would be appointing centrist Francois Bayrou as the country’s new prime minister, after the last government fell apart last week. The National Assembly voted no confidence in Prime Minister Michel Barnier’s government earlier this month, after gridlock in the chamber over passing a 2025 budget for the country. Macron […]
TRUMP: ‘WHATEVER IT TAKES TO GET THEM OUT. I DON’T CARE’: In a wide-ranging interview conducted in conjunction with Time magazine naming Donald Trump its Person of the Year for a second time, the president-elect doubled down on his pledge to conduct the largest mass deportation in American history and use the U.S. military to […]
Sen. Joe Manchin (I-WV) is at it again, giving senators on both sides of the aisle reason to be upset with him days before he finishes out his final term in the Senate. The West Virginia independent kept all of Washington guessing on Wednesday ahead of a critical vote that would have handed Democrats a […]
An inspector general report revealed on Thursday that no FBI sources who were at the Jan. 6 Capitol riot ever faced charges, further debunking a widespread conspiracy theory about Ray Epps, who was prosecuted for his actions that day. Epps, 63, was part of the crowd of thousands who breached restricted areas of the Capitol […]
Though Stanley Tucci is a Hollywood A-lister, starring alongside Ralph Fiennes in this year’s Oscar-contending Conclave, for instance, and in crowd pleasers such as the Hunger Games films, he has cooked up a public persona somehow more associated with food than acting. Tucci has honed a character as a famous epicure that rivals the ones […]
This new year will be a big one in the world of economic policy. Here is what to expect as the calendar turns to 2025 — and likely supercharged once President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20, 2025, for a second, nonconsecutive term. Inflation will top the list, considering it played an outsize role […]
It’s a bit of a strange year for lamentations. Conservatives are generally bullish over the election results, and the most prominent deaths of the year are ones that are perhaps more causes of celebration than anything else. I am thinking here of Hamas’s Yahya Sinwar and Ismail Haniyeh, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, and Iranian President […]
The Biden administration announced a new social initiative on Thursday tasked with eliminating Islamophobia and discrimination against people of Arabic ethnicity. The “U.S. National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia and Anti-Arab Hate” is a policy debuted by the administration dedicated to preventing hate crimes against Muslims and people of Arab Americans in the country. Touted by […]
