Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy began a battle among supporters of President-elect Donald Trump over skilled immigration, sparking questions about how the technology executives would fit into a populist new administration. Trump tasked Musk and Ramaswamy to lead the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency. The two took to social media to argue that tech […]
North Korean soldiers captured by the Ukrainian military died from injuries sustained on the battlefield, according to Ukrainian officials. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced at a Friday press conference that multiple soldiers from the Korean People’s Army, or KPA, were captured in the Kursk region but said the wounded combatants had died of their injuries. […]
The source of so-called dark money fueling the largest Democratic super PAC that supported Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential run passed off hundreds of thousands of dollars to companies partially owned by its leaders in 2023, newly released tax filings show. Future Forward USA Action is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization that pumped north of $100 […]
The White House said preliminary evidence suggests that Russia‘s defense systems shot down a commercial flight originating in Azerbaijan. On Christmas Day, the plane, operated by Azerbaijan Airlines, was flying from Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, to Grozny, the capital of Chechnya in Russia, when it crashed. Thirty-eight people were killed, and 29 survived. “We […]
Kevin O’Leary volunteered to head to Mar-a-Lago and negotiate an “economic union” with Canada instead of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. “The most interesting proposal [President-elect Donald Trump] has put forward in the last 48 hours is Canada,” O’Leary told Fox Business on Thursday. “There’s 41 million Canadians, basically the population of California, sitting on […]
Former Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake said she doesn’t “want to run again” after underperforming President-elect Donald Trump in her state and losing to Sen.-elect Ruben Gallego (D-AZ). Lake made the comments Saturday at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest. Trump recently nominated her as director of Voice of America, a state media network. “We’re not where […]
The Los Angeles Times editorial board will stop writing about President-elect Donald Trump, after a dispute with its owner. Patrick Soon-Shiong, the billionaire owner of the paper, intervened during the 2024 election to prevent it from endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris, much to the editorial board’s consternation. He continued this theme after the election, reportedly […]
Retiring Sen. Joe Manchin (I-WV) condemned President Joe Biden for his decision to commute dozens of death sentences, including the men who pleaded guilty to kidnapping and killing a West Virginia college student. Manchin panned downgrading the sentences of Brandon Basham and Chadrick Fulks to life in prison for the 2002 murder of 19-year-old Marshall […]
A law in Arkansas that threatened librarians and booksellers if they were found to have provided “harmful” content to minors has been struck down by a federal judge over concerns related to free speech. U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks ruled that two parts of the law, stating booksellers’ and patrons’ First Amendment rights, used overly […]
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) called on House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to hear out the concerns of House Republicans on Friday as a possible leadership fight looms ahead of the 119th Congress. “Nobody, at the end of the day, wants to have a leadership fight,” Malliotakis said in an appearance Friday on Fox Business’s Mornings […]
