The two brothers who admitted to helping actor Jussie Smollett stage the actor’s 2019 assault declared the Illinois Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the actor’s conviction is a “real injustice.” “We were taken aback initially, not because of the supreme court’s decision, but because Jussie never admitted guilt,” Abimbola “Bola” Osundairo told Fox News’s Fox […]
Former Rep. Matt Gaetz said he won’t take his seat in the House of Representatives, clearing up speculation that he could return after resigning from the 118th Congress. President-elect Donald Trump nominated him for attorney general last week, but he withdrew his name from consideration on Thursday. “I do not intend to join the 119th […]
Georgia officials dismissed all members of a state maternal health panel after information about the deaths of two women with abortion pill complications was leaked to the press earlier this fall. The dismissal comes two months after the deaths of Amber Nicole Thurman and Candi Miller, two Georgia women who suffered from severe complications after […]
The United Nations Climate Change Conference released a draft deal Friday requiring wealthier countries to provide $250 billion per year until 2035 to help developing countries tackle the effects of climate change and transition toward renewable energy. The two-week conference in Azerbaijan, which started on Nov. 11, is in its final hours as negotiators scramble […]
Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi‘s selection by President-elect Donald Trump to lead the Department of Justice will be a “relief” for Senate Republicans, Washington Examiner Chief Political Correspondent Byron York said. “Clearly, Trump is in a hurry, and one thing that the Gaetz nomination promised to be was really slow,” York said on Fox […]
A senior adviser to President-elect Donald Trump ruled out former Rep. Mike Rogers as a possibility to lead the FBI on Friday following an outcry from Trump’s base about Rogers’s rumored nomination. “Just spoke to President Trump regarding Mike Rogers going to the FBI,” longtime Trump adviser Dan Scavino wrote on X. “It’s not happening […]
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke out about her experiences with President-elect Donald Trump and other world leaders during her time in office — often in less-than-flattering ways. Merkel offers a laundry list of complaints about Trump in her new memoir, Freedom: Memories 1954-2021, which is set to be released on Nov. 26. “[Trump] judged […]
After becoming a political lightning rod during the 2024 campaign, the Heritage Foundation has pledged $1 million to help President-elect Donald Trump appoint members of his Cabinet. “Taking down the deep state isn’t just a priority for President Trump — it’s the mandate the American people gave him,” Heritage President Kevin Roberts said in a […]
Alaska retained ranked choice voting after residents defeated a ballot measure to repeal the reform system by a close margin, according to state elections officials. Unofficial results show Alaskans voted 50.1% to 49.9% to rebuff Measure 2, a ballot effort to repeal RCV and return the state to partisan primaries and plurality general elections. State […]
The sentencing of President-elect Donald Trump in New York for his criminal conviction for falsifying business records to conceal a hush money payment was indefinitely postponed by a judge Friday. Trump was convicted by a Manhattan jury in May on 34 felony counts related to falsifying business records to conceal a hush money payment to […]
