Attorney General Merrick Garland became visibly emotional Friday while addressing the “gravity of the loss” families in the United States have dealt with under the fentanyl crisis. “As we work to strengthen the community responses to addiction and to break apart the fentanyl supply chain, we promise that we will never forget those that we have lost,” […]
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is urging the House Ethics Committee not to release its yearslong investigation into Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), reversing course from earlier this week when he told reporters he would not get involved. “I’m going to strongly request that the Ethics Committee not issue the report because that is not the way […]
The Chicago Tribune, the hometown newspaper of Oprah Winfrey, has criticized her for allowing her company to accept a $1 million payment from the Kamala Harris presidential campaign. The Washington Examiner reported earlier this month how Harris’s campaign had blown through a $1 billion budget. Among its expenses were two payments of $500,000 each to […]
North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un is urging his nation’s military factories to increase their production of suicide drones as the nation’s troops are engaged in their first military conflict in decades. Kim observed a demonstration of the country’s latest unmanned aerial vehicles on Friday and demanded the technology be further advanced and produced […]
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) is fighting to keep a House Ethics Committee report about attorney general nominee Matt Gaetz from being released. The Ethics Committee was set to vote on Friday about whether or not it would publish a report detailing the findings into allegations Gaetz was involved with sex trafficking and […]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) pushed back on claims that Republicans had an “overwhelming mandate” from last week’s elections, noting strong Democratic performances in key House races. Republicans regained the presidency and control of the Senate for the next Congress in last week’s election and narrowly retained control of the House of Representatives, which […]
Action star and filmmaker Sylvester Stallone introduced President-elect Donald Trump as a “mythical character” and the “second George Washington” Thursday while introducing the next president at the America First Policy Institute gala. “When George Washington defended his country, he had no idea that he was gonna change the world,” Stallone said. “Cause’ without him, you […]
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 […]
