Senate Democrats have asked for FBI files on Matt Gaetz, citing concerns over his nomination as attorney general in the incoming Trump administration. Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee asked FBI Director Christopher Wray in a Nov. 20 letter to provide investigative files on former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) as part of their review of
President-elect Donald Trump reacts to the guilty verdict of an illegal immigrant in the murder case of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, saying, “It’s the time to secure the border.” What is Trump vowing to do, and who are some of his latest selections for his next administration? On Capitol Hill Wednesday, the House Ethics…
‘I don’t know how we make ourselves relevant again,’ Morning Joe panelist Mike Barnicle says MSNBC host Joe Scarborough questioned the relevance of his own show Wednesday after a study found that one-fifth of Americans regularly get their news from social media influencers. “That’s a challenge for a lot of mainstream media sources. How do
The two want to cut costs and conduct a sweeping roll back of federal regulations. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy co-authored a Nov. 20 op-ed article on the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) that they will lead in the second Trump administration starting next year. The article appeared
McMahon, a major donor and fundraiser for President-elect Donald Trump’s campaigns, is currently a co-chair of his transition team. President-elect Donald Trump announced on Nov. 19 that he is nominating billionaire Linda McMahon to be his Education Secretary. “Linda will use her decades of leadership experience and deep understanding of both education and business to empower
Resistance to the Chinese Communist Party’s suppression in Hong Kong has garnered bipartisan support in the United States. WASHINGTON—U.S. Reps. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) joined a group of pro-democracy Hong Kong activists to decry the sentencing of 45 political prisoners, imposed under the special administrative region’s draconian Article 23 based on China’s
‘We expect this pattern to be repeated everywhere,’ McCormick campaign says Bob Casey (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) Sen. Bob Casey (D.), who trailed Republican Dave McCormick in Pennsylvania by tens of thousands of votes going into a state-mandated recount this week, picked up just four votes in the counties that have finished the recount process so