President-elect Donald Trump’s defense secretary nominee has been meeting with senators. Some GOP senators said on Dec. 11 that they’re still not sure whether they’re going to vote for Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s defense secretary nominee. “I haven’t decided yet,” Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.) told CNN. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) told reporters she remains
Former NRA officials Wayne LaPierre and Wilson ‘Woody’ Phillips were ordered to repay $4.35 million and $2 million to the gun rights organization respectively. The National Rifle Association (NRA) and the New York attorney general’s office have agreed to more than a dozen reforms the NRA must implement and to two former NRA officials paying
The Senate Judiciary Committee holds an Executive Business Meeting at 10 a.m. ET on Dec. 12 to consider multiple items: bill S.1306 to reauthorize the COPS ON THE BEAT grant program, bill S.2082 to make technical corrections relating to the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, and the nominations of Benjamin J. Cheeks to b…
The Global Engagement Center is being shut down, absent congressional action. The U.S. State Department is planning to close a center that aimed to combat disinformation but ended up targeting some Americans, the U.S. government has announced. Government lawyers said in a Dec. 9 court filing that the State Department’s Global Engagement Center is likely
Robert F. Kennedy must be confirmed by the Senate before taking office and implementing his Make America Healthy Again plan. President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is intent on implementing his “Make America Healthy Again” plan, but first, the former Democrat and independent presidential candidate must
At this point in his presidency, President Biden has already commuted more sentences than his recent predecessors. President Joe Biden on Dec. 12 announced he was pardoning 39 people and commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 others, in the largest single-day act of clemency in history. The pardons are going to individuals who were convicted
ROME, Ga.—A motorist was killed as police responded to a bomb threat at the Georgia home of U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, authorities said. A police officer on the local bomb squad was traveling to the scene when he collided with another car on Monday, Rome police said in a statement. Greene identified the woman