Biden to deliver farewell address from Oval Office on Wednesday night

President Biden eulogizes President Carter President Biden eulogizes former President Jimmy Carter 12:32 Washington — President Biden will deliver a farewell address to the nation from the Oval Office on Wednesday, Jan. 15, the White House announced Friday, as he prepares to hand over power to President-elect Donald Trump.  It will be his fifth and

Lockheed-Martin donates $1 million to Trump inaugural committee

Lockheed Martin, the multinational defense and aerospace firm, is one of the latest big businesses to donate a million dollars to President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural committee.  Recent major donors include Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Amazon, Apple’s Tim Cook, and OpenAI’s Sam Altman.  Lockheed committed the money Dec. 2. But it also donated $1 million to

Biden extends legal status of nearly 1 million immigrants

The Biden administration on Friday announced it would extend the temporary legal status of nearly 1 million immigrants from El Salvador, Sudan, Ukraine and Venezuela, utilizing a program that is expected to be curtailed by the incoming Trump administration. The announcement will allow Salvadoran, Sudanese, Ukrainian and Venezuelan immigrants who currently have Temporary Protected Status

Supreme Court seems likely to uphold TikTok ban as deadline nears

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson asked her first questions of Francisco after nearly an hour of arguments, questioning whether the issue is really about TikTok’s association with ByteDance. “If TiKTok were to, post-divestiture or pre-divestiture, come up with its own algorithm, then when the divestiture happens, it could still operate,” she told Francisco of the law.

Supreme Court hears arguments over TikTok ban as deadline nears

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson asked her first questions of Francisco after nearly an hour of arguments, questioning whether the issue is really about TikTok’s association with ByteDance. “If TiKTok were to, post-divestiture or pre-divestiture, come up with its own algorithm, then when the divestiture happens, it could still operate,” she told Francisco of the law.

Listen to Trump’s sentencing in New York “hush money” case here

President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced to be released with no restrictions Friday after his criminal conviction in the “hush money” case in New York.  Though he’ll receive no punishment under the unconditional discharge sentence, Trump and his attorney pledged to appeal his conviction as he prepares to take office in 10 days as the 47th president