President-elect Donald Trump‘s nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security, Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD), vowed to prioritize border security nationwide should she be confirmed by the Senate to carry out the Republican administration’s vision. “Securing our homeland is a serious, sacred trust that must be relentlessly pursued and can never be taken for granted,” Noem […]
The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a federal law requiring TikTok to divest from its Chinese parent company ByteDance or face a shutdown in the United States. In a unanimous decision, the justices sided with the federal government, agreeing that the law does not violate TikTok’s or its users’ First Amendment rights. Writing for the […]
One of the highest-ranking members of the Chinese Communist Party will attend President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday. Trump had previously invited Chinese President Xi Jinping to his inauguration ceremony, but Xi declined. The Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Friday that Vice President Han Zheng will attend as a special representative for Xi. WHAT TRUMP […]
President-elect Donald Trump suggested that corruption might be linked to why the FBI shut down its diversity, equity, and inclusion office the month before he took the oath of office. Following a string of major U.S. companies, including Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, backing away from DEI policies, the FBI announced without explanation on Thursday that it […]
Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD), President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Homeland Security, will appear before the Senate Homeland Security Committee for a confirmation hearing Friday morning. The hearing, which was originally scheduled for Wednesday, will take place at 9 a.m. Eastern in Washington, D.C. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER Noem […]
A Republican Georgia state senator has been arrested after trying to enter the state House chamber even though he had been banned from the area. Police pushed state Sen. Colton Moore to the ground and arrested him as he attempted to enter the chamber, later taking him to the Fulton County Jail. Moore was trying […]
Festivities for President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday commence in the nation’s capital this weekend. From a fireworks show at Trump’s golf resort outside Washington, D.C., to three inaugural balls on Jan. 20, the capital will be alive with activity as the country prepares for the incoming 47th president of the United States. Here’s everything […]
President Joe Biden began his fourth-to-last-day in office by announcing the commutations of prison sentences for thousands of nonviolent drug offenders. The presidential action makes Biden the president with the most pardons and sentence commutations in the nation’s history, a fact he touted in a statement Friday morning. “Today, I am commuting the sentences of […]
Let’s stipulate that all decent people, whatever their political views, wish good health and longevity to Reps. Dwight Evans (D-PA), Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), and David Scott (D-GA). More practically, Democrats need those three lawmakers and others who recently missed strings of votes due to health-related matters to be present and voting whenever the House is […]
In Top Gun: Maverick, Tom Cruise’s character must train a team of hotshot pilots to take out a facility in an unnamed country with snow-covered mountains. Were they training for a mission in Switzerland? Hollywood was so wary of having any villains identified in this one that pilots from the generic foreign adversary were literally […]
