EXCLUSIVE — The House Freedom Caucus is preparing to wield its power in the next Congress, hoping that President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House will bolster their influence in the lower chamber. “The president knows that the strongest supporters in Congress are in the House Freedom Caucus,” Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD), chairman of […]
Satirical outlet the Onion’s acquisition of Alex Jones’s InfoWars has been paused by a federal bankruptcy judge after lawyers for Jones and his company complained about how the auction proceeded. On Thursday, the Onion was named the winner of the bankruptcy auction reportedly bidding $3.5 million for the site. Jones was ordered to sell the […]
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) sounded the alarm on Democrats’ perhaps unintentional messaging in swing states following Vice President Kamala Harris’s loss in the 2024 presidential election. In an interview with NBC News, Fetterman said Democrats need to rethink their messaging in purple districts versus districts that are easily winnable for the party. When asked if […]
Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) fended off a competitive challenger on election night, defeating Republican Austin Theriault in a district former President Donald Trump has won three times in a row. The Associated Press called the race for Golden on Friday, Nov. 15, at 8.50 p.m., 10 days after the election. Golden received 49.9% to Theriault’s […]
President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has defended himself after facing repeated accusations that his tattoos were associated with white nationalism. Hegseth, whose nomination by Trump has been one of the more surprising in the past week, has been the subject of multiple articles focusing on his tattoos, An Associated Press […]
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said he looks forward to President-elect Donald Trump’s upcoming administration on at least one thing: capping credit card interest fees. Speaking with the New York Times‘s The Daily podcast Friday, Sanders said Trump’s campaign call for limits on credit card fees was “a very good idea.” “If Trump, for example, follows […]
President-elect Donald Trump announced his campaign national press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, will continue with him in the administration as the White House press secretary. “Karoline Leavitt did a phenomenal job as the National Press Secretary on my Historic Campaign, and I am pleased to announce she will serve as White House Press Secretary,” Trump said […]
McDonald’s is spending $100 million on marketing to bring customers back to its restaurants after a recent E. coli outbreak, which sickened over 100 people and damaged the franchise’s sales across the country. The company is putting $35 million directly toward marketing and another $65 million to lift up stores that lost business due to […]
Former Jill Biden spokesman Michael LaRosa said in a post on X that opposing diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives “does not make you a white supremacist.” LaRosa was responding to a Mediatite article detailing how an MSNBC guest called President-elect Donald Trump’s Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth a white supremacist for opposing DEI in […]
Nevada election officials scrapped a record number of ballots because of unresolved questions about ineligible signatures during the 2024 elections. More than 9,000 mail-in ballots with inadequate signatures, or 0.6% of all votes cast, were tossed after Nevada’s deadline to “cure” or fix any problems with ballots passed on Nov. 12, a week after Election […]
