Washington — House Republicans are expected to coalesce around Speaker Mike Johnson in their leadership elections Wednesday, which come just as they secured majority control of the lower chamber for another two years. Johnson and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, both from Louisiana, are expected to be reelected to their positions in the next Congress,
President-elect Donald Trump has picked Florida’s three-term senator Marco Rubio to be his nominee for secretary of state, setting the tone for a more hawkish administration on U.S. foreign policy. “Marco is a Highly Respected Leader, and a very powerful Voice for Freedom,” Trump wrote in a Nov. 13 statement. “He will be a strong Advocate
Donald Trump has chosen Tulsi Gabbard to serve as his Director of National Intelligence, he announced.
Democratic National Committee leaders are frustrated over the prospect of facing a multimillion-dollar debt from Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign, Axios reported Wednesday. DNC chairman Jaime Harrison privately criticized the Harris campaign’s spending and expressed concerns about the scale of its debt, sources told Axios. While the campaign raised just over $1 billion in contributions, the
The Guardian will no longer post its content under its official account on X, the British newspaper announced on Wednesday. The Guardian stated the move had been under consideration for a while, “given the often disturbing content promoted or found on the platform, including far-right conspiracy theories and racism.” The media outlet added that the
President-elect Donald Trump said last year he plans to block federal agency programs that support "gender-affirming" care, aiming to reduce availability of such services for minors nationwide.
More than $20 billion flooded into the 2024 presidential campaign, shattering the record for political spending in a single election. In an accelerating trend in American politics, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris and their allies raised colossal sums of money from billionaires. A majority of these megadonors were Republicans, according to Open Secrets, the nonpartisan watchdog