DHS: 100,000 EMPLOYEES UNPAID AMID SHUTDOWN White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will hold a press briefing on Wednesday at 1:00 p.m.  Leavitt is expected to address the standstill in Congress over Department of Homeland Security funding and to provide updates on the Iran war. 

President Donald Trump appointed 13 executives, including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, to his newly formed science and technology council on Wednesday. The White House announced the appointments in a statement after the news was reported by the Wall Street Journal. The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology is […]

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) on Wednesday sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi alleging that President Donald Trump took highly sensitive classified documents aboard his private plane and showed them off to passengers.  Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, said the claims stem from newly disclosed Justice Department records tied to […]

Late-night TV host Stephen Colbert is co-writing a new film in the Lord of the Rings saga. Colbert made the announcement with Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson on Tuesday, on a joint Zoom call. Colbert said he finds himself reading “over and over again” six chapters at the beginning of the first book, […]