Two Americans Set for Release But Five Left Behind in Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Deal

Two Americans are set to be released this week alongside dozens of Israelis in the first stage of Israel and Hamas’s hostage-ceasefire deal, leaving five Americans still in captivity. U.S. citizens Sagui Dekel-Chen and Keith Siegel will be among the 33 hostages released as early as Sunday in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, including

Supreme Court Greenlights TikTok Sell-or-Ban Law as Biden Punts on Enforcement to Trump

Chinese-owned app has said it will shut down on Sunday, the deadline for a sale (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) The Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of the TikTok sell-or-ban law on Friday, just two days before the January 19 deadline for the video sharing app to decouple from its Chinese Communist Party-controlled parent company. Hours

Apex Trump

“A has power over B,” said the political scientist Robert Dahl, “to the extent that he can get B to do something that B would not otherwise do.” In Washington’s new power equation, “A” is Donald Trump and “B” is everyone else. He has spent nearly a decade in presidential politics, remade the Republican Party

CNN Braces for Verdict in Defamation Trial That Exposed Haphazard Publishing Process

‘CNN is so arrogant, they are so used to getting whatever they want,’ plaintiff’s attorney says A clip of Jake Tapper plays during CNN’s defamation trial in Panama City, Fla. (Free Beacon) PANAMA CITY, Fla.—Jurors in the $1 billion defamation suit against CNN ended deliberations Thursday evening without handing down a decision. They will resume

Trump’s Interior, EPA Picks Vow To Unleash American Energy as Democrats Struggle To Land a Blow in Hearings

Former North Dakota governor Doug Burgum (R.) and former New York congressman Lee Zeldin (R.), President-elect Donald Trump’s picks to lead the Interior Department and EPA, respectively, appear to have a glide path to Senate approval following their confirmation hearings Thursday. Burgum and Zeldin—who, if confirmed, will oversee the bulk of Trump’s aggressive energy and

SCOTUSblog Publisher Tom Goldstein Diverted Millions from Law Firm To Pay Gambling Debts and Evaded Taxes for Years, Federal Indictment Alleges

Tom Goldstein, a prominent Supreme Court lawyer and publisher of SCOTUSblog, was indicted Thursday for allegedly evading taxes for years and taking millions from his law firm’s funds to cover gambling debts. Goldstein, an “ultrahigh-stakes poker player,” allegedly orchestrated a scheme between 2016 and 2022 to “evade the assessment of taxes, file false tax returns,

WATCH: Jim Acosta Holds Up Jim Acosta Poster While Boasting of Jim Acosta’s Importance

‘I march for Jim Acosta and a free press,’ the eight-year-old sign read CNN anchor Jim Acosta showed off a fan-made, pro-Acosta sign he’d kept for eight years as he preached about journalists’ importance to cap off his Thursday show. “Journalists exist to seek the truth, to tell people’s stories, to lift up voices that