Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump’s intelligence director nominee, walked back some of her past defenses of foreign adversaries and criticism of U.S. government surveillance but repeatedly refused to call CIA leaker Edward Snowden a “traitor” in a combative confirmation hearing on Thursday. Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman who became a Trump ally in recent years,
Former CNN host promises to ‘bro out’ in premiere episode plagued by charmless banter, technical difficulties Jim Acosta, the widely despised journalist, resigned from CNN this week and followed in the footsteps of another obnoxious journalist, former Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin, by launching a new website on Substack to defend democracy or whatever. He
Investigation comes a year after NPR editor resigned over outlet’s ‘devastating’ bias Brendan Carr (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images), NPR station (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images), former PBS building (Thomson200/Wikimedia Commons) The Federal Communications Commission is investigating NPR and PBS over whether their member stations are airing sponsorships that violate federal rules against commercial advertising on public broadcasters. NPR
California’s top military commander, tasked with safeguarding the state from wildfires and other natural disasters, displayed a profane gay pride flag in his office just weeks before Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed him to lead the California National Guard in 2022, according to a photo obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Major General Matt Beevers featured
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
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