Two men with ties to the U.S. military are accused of perpetrating terrorist attacks on New Year’s Eve, bolstering concerns over the capacity of military members who have been radicalized to use their training and knowledge for domestic harm. Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, and Matthew Alan Livelsberger, 37, who police say are behind the New Orleans Bourbon Street […]
Two top Jan. 6 committee lawmakers, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) and former Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, were part of a group awarded the nation’s second-highest civilian honor by President Joe Biden on Thursday. Thompson and Cheney, awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal, have both been floated as pardon candidates in Biden’s final days in office. […]
Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) handed out new committee positions to a slew of incoming Democratic senators and incumbent lawmakers in the upper chamber. On Thursday, a number of incoming Democratic freshman lawmakers, including Sen.-elects Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), Adam Schiff (D-CA), Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD), Andy Kim (D-NJ), and Lisa Rochester (D-DE), […]
Top Republicans are calling for a swift confirmation of President-elect Donald Trump’s national security nominees following a New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans that killed more than a dozen people. Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL), Trump’s incoming national security adviser, argued that the attack underscores how critical it is for the new national security team […]
President Joe Biden said there is no evidence “as of now” of any connection between the terrorist attack on New Year’s Day revelers in New Orleans and the truck explosion outside the Trump hotel in Las Vegas. Biden delivered the brief update Thursday on the investigations into Wednesday’s terrorist attack on Bourbon Street in Louisiana […]
EXCLUSIVE — The State Department has crafted plans to distribute staffers from a shuttered office accused of censoring conservatives to a new internal “hub” that will coordinate its activities, according to documents obtained by the Washington Examiner. The Global Engagement Center, the office that Republicans accused of working with groups aiming to demonetize right-leaning media outlets in the United States, shut […]
The New York Police Department arrested a 20-year-old man they say was caught sneaking into Gracie Mansion, the residence of New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Michael Aromando was spotted at 4:24 a.m. on Wednesday, just a few hours after the city celebrated its annual New Year’s Eve celebration. NYPD personnel assigned to the mansion’s […]
A planned protest near the Capitol this weekend will attempt to discourage Congress from certifying the election for President-elect Donald Trump. Next week, Congress is expected to certify the 2024 election, in which Trump won the popular vote and 312 electoral votes. In the three days leading up to Jan. 6 when lawmakers will vote […]
A federal appeals court revived a legal challenge to a New York law Thursday that prohibits retaliation or consideration against retaining employees over their “reproductive health” decisions, a term that includes having an abortion. The case, CompassCare v. Hochul, brought by faith-based organizations, implicates unresolved First Amendment questions about the balance between antidiscrimination laws and protections […]
The man who died Wednesday in the explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck in front of President-elect Donald Trump’s hotel in Las Vegas was a senior enlisted officer in the Special Forces, according to a statement from the Army. Master Sgt. Matthew Alan Livelsberger enlisted in January 2006 as an 18X, or a candidate for Special […]
