President-elect Donald Trump announced a flurry of new Cabinet selections on Thursday night, including his choices for his Border Patrol commissioner, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting director, and ambassador to China. Trump made six different choices, with the majority geared toward homeland security and immigration. Trump nominated Rodney Scott to be his commissioner of […]
The host of the Call Her Daddy podcast expressed her dismay over a Washington Examiner report on the Kamala Harris campaign spending six figures on building a makeshift set for the show, saying, “It was gorgeous but it wasn’t that nice.” The Washington Examiner previously reported how the Harris campaign blew through more than $1 […]
No living American filmmaker can be plausibly said to have undergone such a profound artistic evolution as Clint Eastwood. From a greenhorn starring in Rawhide to an auteur of international standing in under a dozen years. Nor can any claim a comparable list of outright masterpieces: The Outlaw Josey Wales, Bronco Billy, Bird, the supreme […]
My father died slowly. Fourteen years, from diagnosis to death. Cancer is like that, if you are lucky. Surgery, radiation treatment, and chemotherapy extended both his life and his death. Each interlude of near-normality between treatments had, like the isotopes in the radiation, a half-life. Each time it halved, death came closer to us all. […]
Dune: Prophecy, HBO’s prequel series to the blockbuster films of the same name, opens with a quasi-cryptic epigraph about war set against an abstract, smoky monochrome backdrop — an implicit promise to the viewer that it will deliver more of the awesome, austere sturm-and-drang that made those films the most artistically successful fantasy adaptations since […]
Former President Barack Obama criticized the political “doom loop” created by politicians who portray their opponents as “enemies to be vanquished” just weeks after he warned voters about now President-elect Donald Trump while campaigning for Vice President Kamala Harris. During his keynote address Thursday about the importance of pluralism at the Obama Foundation’s third Democracy Forum in […]
Congressional Republicans huddled for a series of meetings on Thursday with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the two business titans tapped with slashing the size of the federal government. Musk and Ramaswamy swept through the Capitol to share their vision for the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, a commission that will recommend cost-saving measures to President-elect Donald Trump. The panel […]
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) released a 60-page report on Thursday titled “Out of Office,” blasting the government’s usage of remote workers and laying out questions to President-elect Donald Trump’s nominated Cabinet on the issue. Ernst is the chairwoman and founder of the Senate DOGE Caucus, which aims to sharpen government efficiency like Elon Musk’s and […]
The House is gearing up to consider a bill next week that would add around 66 federal judgeships over the next decade, despite concerns within the Biden administration about whether it will ultimately be signed into law. The Senate-passed JUDGES Act, which would distribute new judgeships in phases across three presidential administrations, initially enjoyed broad […]
A group of nearly 100 former senior intelligence and national security officials sent a letter to Senate leaders, writing that they are “alarmed” by President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard to become national intelligence director and urged senators to “carefully scrutinize” her nomination. The officials who served in both Republican and Democratic […]
