Editor-in-chief of Scientific American Laura Helmuth resigned following a string of expletive-laced posts criticizing President-elect Donald Trump’s voters. Helmuth made a series of posts on Bluesky — a rival platform to X — in which she said Trump supporters were “f******” fascists.” The posts have since been deleted, but they were shared to X. TRUMP […]
Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be the next Secretary of Defense, was investigated, but not charged, in a sexual assault case less than a decade ago, raising questions about the Trump transition team’s vetting process. The Monterey Police Department in California investigated “an alleged sexual assault” involving Hegseth that took place in the […]
House Republicans are cautiously moving forward with a deal to change how the lower chamber operates, with centrist lawmakers privately crossing their fingers that their rabble-rouser colleagues hold up their end of the deal in January 2025. GOP lawmakers crafted a deal this week to drop rule changes to discourage members from disrupting legislative business […]
Former late-night star and comedian Conan O’Brien is set to host the 97th Oscars, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said on Tuesday. “This is incredible. I’ve been handed an Oscar. I’m an Oscar winner. … It’s amazing,” O’Brien joked in an announcement video released by the Academy on X. “No, you’re the […]
Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) left the door open to join President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet, marking his latest move to distance himself from the Democratic Party. Weighing in after voters overwhelmingly handed Trump a second term last week, the Minnesota congressman told NewsNation, “I am not a big fan of the president himself, but I understand […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) blasted Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard as Cabinet nominees, lamenting the former’s vaccine skepticism and the latter’s soft stance on Russia. President-elect Donald Trump nominated Kennedy to be the United States’s secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services and Gabbard for director of national intelligence. […]
President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is skipping the protocol of using the FBI to conduct background checks, according to a report. Instead, the president-elect’s team is turning to private companies to vet administrative appointees, people familiar with transition planning told CNN. Trump has criticized the FBI for its slow investigation process and feared it would […]
The House Ethics Committee reportedly canceled its Friday meeting as pressure surges for the committee to release its report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz after he was announced as President-elect Donald Trump‘s pick for attorney general. The committee has been investigating the Florida Republican over allegations of sex trafficking and sex with a minor, accusations […]
The postmaster general is facing scrutiny for bragging about how he has nearly fully unionized the agency while running up an unsustainable budget deficit. Louis DeJoy recently said he was aiming for a “unionized operation … 100% unionized,” according to a report picked up by Postal Times and Americans for Tax Reform. In the initial […]
(The Center Square) – While not a concession, Republican Arizona U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake has released a video thanking Arizonans for supporting her throughout her attempt at a political career and spreading support for President Donald Trump’s win in addition to a Republican majority in both chambers of Congress. “As for me? Well, I […]
