Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is taking a two-pronged approach to negotiations with the White House, asking the outgoing and incoming administrations for assistance on different fronts. The Ukrainian leader is currently pressing President Joe Biden to back his country’s demands for full NATO membership before leaving office in January. He said in a Monday statement […]
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) signaled she is more open to backing Pete Hegseth’s nomination to become secretary of defense following a second meeting with him on Monday. “Following our encouraging conversations, Pete committed to completing a full audit of the Pentagon and selecting a senior official who will uphold the roles and value of our […]
Sens. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Andy Kim (D-NJ) were sworn in Monday by Vice President Kamala Harris to serve the last three weeks of the terms of former Sens. Lephonza Butler and George Helmy, respectively. Butler and Helmy resigned over the weekend so that Schiff and Kim, both of whom won elections in November to […]
President Joe Biden established the Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding School National Monument on Monday to memorialize a “dark chapter” in U.S. history, the era of Native American boarding schools. Biden, speaking for the last time at the Tribal Nations Summit, remarked on the period spanning the 19th and 20th centuries that saw the federal government […]
The View‘s Whoopi Goldberg got into a heated exchange with co-host Ana Navarro when she attempted to tamp down postelection hysteria but was met with resistance. “I try to say it at least once a week. [President-elect Donald Trump] does this to keep you all in a panic. He does it to make y’all do […]
Former Syrian President Bashar Assad has not been seen on camera in over a week, staying virtually silent throughout the downfall of his regime. The deposed dictator and his family escaped the capital city of Damascus on Sunday and made their flight to Moscow, where he was taken in on humanitarian grounds. Assad’s living arrangements, […]
The Department of the Interior said it would hold an oil and gas auction for 400,000 acres in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on Jan. 9, just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. On Monday, Interior released a record of decision and a notice of the lease sale, allowing an auction to be held […]
House Republicans will select new leaders for several powerful committees this week, with the chairmen inheriting both a gavel and the task of advancing President-elect Donald Trump‘s agenda through a united GOP Congress. With the new members’ swearing-in on Jan. 3, 2025, and Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, 2025, the newly selected House committee leaders […]
New York City Mayor Eric Adams pushed back against speculation that he could swap political parties, insisting that he is a “true blue” Democrat while also being a “true blue-collar” worker. Last week, Adams was asked in an interview about potentially rejoining the Republican Party, which he was a part of from 1995 to 2002, […]
President-elect Donald Trump touted several products on the campaign trail, including sneakers, NFTs, and other items, but he has been silent on how he will keep those endeavors while serving as president again. The president-elect’s brand had been used to sell products long before he entered politics. He resigned from the Trump Organization before first […]
