Outgoing Sen. Sherrod Brown‘s (D-OH) political career may not be over despite losing his reelection bid last week to represent Ohio in the Senate to Republican Sen.-elect Bernie Moreno. Brown, who was first elected to the Senate in 2006, will be out of elected office in January for the first time since he was elected […]
Sen. John Thune (R-SD) won’t assume his new role as Senate majority leader until the next Congress is seated Jan. 3. But he’s already being put to the test. President-elect Donald Trump’s eyebrow-raising Cabinet nominees, including former Rep. Matt Gaetz, former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Fox News host Pete Hegseth, and ex-presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy […]
President-elect Donald Trump brought his populist supporters into the Republican Party and now would like to include them in his administration, but not everyone in the GOP is happy about it. The MAGA movement contains some people who are fervent Republicans but might deviate from what was the party line as recently as the George […]
Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Lina Khan is the face of the “hipster antitrust” movement, but she’s also got friends in the MAGA movement. Khan, 35, is the youngest person ever to lead the FTC. As a Biden appointee, she is unlikely to stay on once President-elect Donald Trump takes office, though her aggressive stance toward […]
President-elect Donald Trump continued his whirlwind of Cabinet pick announcements on Thursday afternoon, tapping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Kennedy, the nephew of former President John F. Kennedy, ran for president in the 2024 Democratic primary but later ended his bid to run as an independent candidate. […]
President-elect Donald Trump will begin his second nonconsecutive term with Republican control of both chambers of Congress, including a 53-47 Senate majority. However, the House Republican majority is likely no higher than a narrow 221-214, or perhaps a seat more. Still, the former and future president’s victories in both the Electoral College and the popular […]
HUNTINGTON BEACH, California — Finally, an election result Ronald Reagan would recognize — or at least something close to it. The late Republican president and GOP candidates up and down the ballot once dominated Orange County, California, elections. Reagan won nearly 75% of the vote there during his 1984 reelection landslide, and Republican presidential nominees […]
Vice President-elect J.D. Vance hasn’t been shy about changing his political allegiances when convenient. Emerging from a tour in Iraq with the Marines to attend the Ohio State University and later Yale Law School, Vance burst into public as a bestselling author in 2016. The criticisms Vance initially leveled at Donald Trump back then are well-documented […]
The day after the election, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) stood before assembled reporters. “Good morning, everyone,” he said with a slight smile on his owlish mien. “It is certainly a happy day for the GOP.” He congratulated President-elect Donald Trump and commended the 45th and soon-to-be 47th commander in chief’s winning campaign over […]
On the night of Thursday, Nov. 7, the Dutch capital of Amsterdam witnessed Europe’s first pogrom since 1945. Around 3,000 Israeli Jews were in town to watch Maccabi Tel Aviv play a UEFA league match against the Dutch team Ajax. Between midnight and dawn, local Muslims and Arabs launched what they called a “Jew hunt.” […]
