President-elect Donald Trump‘s nominees for key Cabinet positions will have hearings for their Senate confirmation on Capitol Hill this week. Nominees will first face committees with subject areas of relevance for their posts. Then, the entire Senate will vote on their confirmation. Republicans have a three-seat majority in the Senate, and nominees only need to […]
Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna assured that he has “all the confidence in the world” that looters taking advantage of the aftermath of the county’s wildfires will face justice, of which over a dozen have been arrested on robbery charges. Luna detailed that 39 arrests have been made in the last week, with several […]
President-elect Donald Trump is being urged to freeze legal and illegal immigration to help Americans get back to work. Citing census and Labor Department reports showing that most new jobs are going to foreign-born workers, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) on Tuesday said America should fully stop illegal immigration and letting another 3 million legal immigrants […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg are set to sit with President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees on Inauguration Day. An official involved in planning the event told NBC News that the trio would be seated on the platform, right by lawmakers and Trump’s nominees. The seats of honor […]
Some landlords are raising their rent in Los Angeles, a move the state has warned is illegal, as fires devastate large swaths of the city, effectively increasing the demand in the rental market. Fires in Los Angeles have destroyed thousands of homes, leaving families scrambling for long-term shelter in the face of uncertainty. Real estate […]
Starbucks will no longer allow nonpaying customers to stay in its cafes, according to a new policy. The coffee company once tried to rebrand itself as an open-door cafe that allowed anyone to use its tables as workstations and gathering places, which included public restrooms. This laid-back policy came after two black men weren’t allowed […]
President-elect Donald Trump‘s proposed secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, used his Senate confirmation hearing to address questions over his Christian tattoos, which critics say represent an “extremist” ideology. Hegseth clashed with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) at his Tuesday hearing when the lawmaker accused the defense secretary nominee of advocating a prohibition against personnel who hold […]
Outgoing Vice President Kamala Harris reportedly declined to invite Vice President-elect J.D. Vance to the vice president’s residence before Inauguration Day. Multiple Democratic and Republican sources told CBS News that Harris declined to invite Vance or his family for a sit-down or tour of the Naval Observatory residence. Vance’s wife, Usha, reportedly reached out to […]
The View co-host Sunny Hostin slammed a fellow television host for commentary that blamed the mismanagement of the Los Angeles wildfires on “woke politics and DEI.” “In terms of politicizing this fire, that’s what I have been most disgusted by,” Hostin said Monday. She turned her criticism to Fox News host Jesse Watters. “This is […]
Pat Soon-Shiong, the owner of the Los Angeles Times, shared on Monday that he believed his paper’s endorsement of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass during the 2022 mayoral campaign was “a mistake.” “So, at the L.A. Times, we endorsed Karen Bass. I think, right now, upfront, that’s a mistake, and we admit that,” Soon-Shiong said. […]
