Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) says Russell Vought is a ’threat to democracy.” Russell Vought, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), inched one step closer to being the White House budget chief. Following a closed Jan. 30 business meeting, Senate Budget Committee Republicans voted 11–0 in favor of Vought’s
JERUSALEM—Hamas’s stage-managed release of Israeli hostages on Thursday was nearly derailed by an angry mob of thousands of Gazans. In the third round of hostage releases by Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group released Agam Berger, a 20-year-old Israeli soldier, in a bizarre ceremony. Hours later, Hamas released Israeli civilians Arbel Yehoud, 29, and Gadi Moses,
Bakari Sellers’s now-deleted post suggests Trump’s hiring freeze caused tragic crash Bakari Sellers (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images) CNN analyst Bakari Sellers wrote and later deleted an X post blaming President Donald Trump for Wednesday’s deadly midair collision between a commercial airplane and an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C. Sellers posted a screenshot of a statement from
The official is also taking steps to end several policies within the Department of Transportation. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said on Jan. 29 that his department is taking action to remove stringent fossil fuel emission standards passed by the Biden administration. In December 2023, the Department of Transport’s Federal Highway Administration finalized a rule
Canadian officials are making a diplomatic push in Washington to avoid U.S. tariffs but ultimately they remain in the dark about U.S. President Donald Trump’s intentions, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly said after meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Joly held a first meeting with Rubio in his new capacity on Jan. 29.
All 67 aboard a commercial plane and an Army helicopter are feared dead after a midair collision late Wednesday evening near Reagan Washington National Airport, the deadliest U.S. aviation disaster since November 2001. “At this point, we don’t believe there are any survivors from this accident,” D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services chief John Donnelly
In the waning days of the Biden administration, Democratic leaders said then-president Joe Biden couldn’t do much to stem the surge of illegal immigration at the southern border without an act of Congress. Then-White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, for example, told CNN in February 2024 that “the folks who are getting in the way”