President-elect Donald Trump tapped former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi as his next pick for attorney general, following former Rep. Matt Gaetz’s withdrawal earlier in the day. Bondi served as attorney general of Florida from 2011 to 2019. However, she is best known for serving as one of Trump’s defense lawyers during his first impeachment. In […]
Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) conceded the Pennsylvania Senate race to David McCormick. The race was called days after the election for McCormick, but Casey had refused to concede. He held out longer than any other Senate candidate in the 2024 cycle. VOTERS SEND HISTORY-MAKING CANDIDATES TO CONGRESS “I just called Dave McCormick to congratulate him on his election to […]
After distancing himself from Project 2025 during his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump has tapped some of its contributors to join his incoming administration. Though the project itself encompassed a variety of things, including education and preparing personnel for a presidential transition, public focus, and criticism, revolved around the book it produced — Mandate for Leadership […]
The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg speculated that billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk is “the actual vice president,” deeming Vice President-elect J.D. Vance “an interim.” Musk actively assisted President-elect Donald Trump ahead of the 2024 presidential election and has since been assigned to co-head the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency. “I believe Elon Musk […]
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into the Global Alliance for Responsible Media over allegations of an anticompetitive boycott targeting social media platforms, including Elon Musk’s X. The investigation comes on the heels of an antitrust lawsuit filed by X in August, accusing GARM and its suburbanization, the World Federation of Advertisers, […]
The Justice Department is telling Google to divest from its Chrome browser in an effort to be in compliance with antitrust law. “Google must promptly and fully divest Chrome, to a buyer approved by the Plaintiffs in their sole discretion, subject to terms that the Court and Plaintiffs approve,” the Justice Department said in its […]
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel excoriated President-elect Donald Trump in her memoir and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, though her support wasn’t known until after the Nov. 5 election. Freedom, which will come out later this month, is Merkel’s first book, detailing her experiences beginning in 1954 and ending with her departure from the chancellorship […]
President-elect Donald Trump is once again weighing contenders for attorney general after former Rep. Matt Gaetz, his top choice, announced Thursday that he was removing himself from consideration. Prior to nominating Gaetz, Trump’s short list of attorney general prospects had included several others, but he tapped at least two of them, John Ratcliffe and Matt […]
There was little love lost from Senate Republicans over former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz’s abrupt withdrawal Thursday as President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee. The eight-day nomination, a brief stint that made it the third-shortest for a Cabinet seat in U.S. history, was plagued by GOP warnings that the polarizing Republican firebrand with a checkered […]
The Supreme Court denied on Wednesday an emergency appeal to protect physicians’ right to question the “mainstream COVID narrative” from a health advocacy organization founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Kennedy, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services, was listed on court documents as one of the trial lawyers […]
