Images of a gunman brazenly murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on the streets of New York City last week baffled the country, and after days of searching, law enforcement finally has a suspect. Video footage showed the killer nonchalantly ambling off last Wednesday, with authorities unable to find the suspected shooter. That changed on Wednesday […]
Sen.-elect Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) credited his pitch to voters about economic concerns and the border crisis with helping him garner an edge over his Republican rival, Kari Lake. In a Monday appearance on ABC’s The View, Gallego said his election win in November centered on Arizonians struggling with inflation and the border crisis. “The reason […]
Rushern Baker III, a former Prince George’s County executive, will run for the role again following the resignation of Sen.-elect Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD). His announcement will be given at a press conference on Tuesday at 11 a.m. A special election will be held to determine who will fill Alsobrooks’s seat for the last two years […]
The House Rules Committee advanced the latest iteration of the National Defense Authorization Act, teeing up the annual policy legislation for a vote later this week. The panel voted along party lines Monday to advance the NDAA in a combined rules package, which could hit the floor as soon as Tuesday. That will allow lawmakers […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is taking a two-pronged approach to negotiations with the White House, asking the outgoing and incoming administrations for assistance on different fronts. The Ukrainian leader is currently pressing President Joe Biden to back his country’s demands for full NATO membership before leaving office in January. He said in a Monday statement […]
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) signaled she is more open to backing Pete Hegseth’s nomination to become secretary of defense following a second meeting with him on Monday. “Following our encouraging conversations, Pete committed to completing a full audit of the Pentagon and selecting a senior official who will uphold the roles and value of our […]
Sens. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Andy Kim (D-NJ) were sworn in Monday by Vice President Kamala Harris to serve the last three weeks of the terms of former Sens. Lephonza Butler and George Helmy, respectively. Butler and Helmy resigned over the weekend so that Schiff and Kim, both of whom won elections in November to […]
President Joe Biden established the Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding School National Monument on Monday to memorialize a “dark chapter” in U.S. history, the era of Native American boarding schools. Biden, speaking for the last time at the Tribal Nations Summit, remarked on the period spanning the 19th and 20th centuries that saw the federal government […]
The View‘s Whoopi Goldberg got into a heated exchange with co-host Ana Navarro when she attempted to tamp down postelection hysteria but was met with resistance. “I try to say it at least once a week. [President-elect Donald Trump] does this to keep you all in a panic. He does it to make y’all do […]
Former Syrian President Bashar Assad has not been seen on camera in over a week, staying virtually silent throughout the downfall of his regime. The deposed dictator and his family escaped the capital city of Damascus on Sunday and made their flight to Moscow, where he was taken in on humanitarian grounds. Assad’s living arrangements, […]
