A week after betting markets determined Pete Hegseth’s nomination for secretary of defense to be doomed, his Cabinet bid has renewed viability, and his odds to be confirmed by the Senate have skyrocketed. On Dec. 4, Polymarket betting odds gave Hegseth an 11% chance of being confirmed. On Wednesday, his odds stand at 69%. Rise, […]
President-elect Donald Trump is set to ring the New York Stock Exchange bell on Thursday, kicking off trading for the day. The move by the president-elect comes as he has made fixing the country’s economy a major focus, discussing how he would create a new Cabinet focused on addressing the cost of living in October. […]
A Michigan Republican lawmaker unveiled a new amendment Wednesday that would change the state’s constitution to require proof of citizenship during registration and to show photo identification when casting a ballot. “Only American citizens can vote in American elections,” said state Rep. Bryan Posthumus, the incoming House Republican floor leader, during a local radio interview. “Unfortunately, […]
Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser told members of Congress that the nation’s capital is ready for federal workers to return to in-person work, as President-elect Donald Trump and his allies have made it a priority. The local government and the incoming Republican trifecta at the federal level have a common interest in getting federal workers […]
President Joe Biden reflected Tuesday that it was “stupid” not to have signed COVID-19 stimulus checks during his administration, something he pointed out President-elect Donald Trump did. Biden was speaking to the Brookings Institution while touting the COVID-19 stimulus bill passed in 2021, according to a report. The bill, costing $19 trillion, led to $1,400 […]
New Jersey state Sen. Doug Steinhardt called for more information on the drones circling the skies before “public panic” sets in. Steinhardt’s interview on Fox News’s Fox and Friends Wednesday came after weekslong sightings of car-sized drones all over the state, notably in Bedminster, where Gov. Phil Murphy (D-NJ) lives and President-elect Donald Trump’s golf […]
The North Korean government is relishing in the political scandals of its southern neighbor as political disorder continues to grow following a failed attempt at imposing marshal law earlier this month. Police attempted a raid on South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s office Wednesday, but security personnel repelled the investigators and prevented a search of […]
The United States’s Missile Defense Agency successfully conducted a live intercept test of a ballistic missile in Guam earlier this week for the first time. Rear Adm. Greg Huffman, the commander of Joint Task Force-Micronesia, said the test marked a “critical milestone” in that it “confirmed our ability to detect, track, and engage a target […]
Former U.S. national security adviser John Bolton skewered President-elect Donald Trump’s FBI director nominee, Kash Patel, accusing him of doing shoddy work and inflating his résumé. In an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, straightforwardly titled “Kash Patel Doesn’t Belong at the FBI,” Trump’s former national security adviser excoriated Patel for his conduct during the […]
Luigi Mangione allegedly had a notebook in which he recorded plans to murder UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Law enforcement officials said when they arrested Mangione as the prime suspect in the Thompson murder case, the 26-year-old Ivy League graduate was found with a possibly incriminating notebook on his person. “What do you do? You wack […]
