Donald Trump has tapped Army combat veteran and Fox News host Pete Hegseth to serve as his next defense secretary, the president-elect announced Tuesday. Hegseth, who earned two bronze stars from combat tours, served as a platoon leader at the Guantanamo Bay naval facility and fought in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He is a longtime
‘I have two little girls. I don’t want them getting run over on a playing field by a male,’ Dem rep told New York Times Seth Moulton (cropped, Alex Wong/Getty Images) Tufts University walked back a threat from its political science chairman to stop sending interns to Rep. Seth Moulton’s office after the Massachusetts Democrat
Trump’s appointments of Stefanik, Waltz could leave the GOP with exactly 218 seats Mike Johnson (R., La.)(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) The GOP’s House majority is all but confirmed. The size of that majority, however, remains to be seen—and President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to tap two House Republicans for his cabinet means it could shrink to as
‘If we don’t stand with Israel, we stand for chaos,’ Huckabee said during December 2023 visit to decimated kibbutz near Gazan border Mike Huckabee, Donald Trump (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) President-elect Donald Trump has selected former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee (R.) to serve as the next ambassador to Israel, signaling that relations with the Jewish state
Casey fundraising emails claim the race, which the AP has called, is still ‘too close to call’ (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) Sen. Bob Casey (D.) is staying in the Pennsylvania Senate race until “every vote” is counted, he said Tuesday, even after the three-term incumbent lost a major vote of confidence from Senate majority leader Chuck
Sharpton touted Harris’s ‘extraordinary historic campaign’ in interview just weeks after donation Al Sharpton with then-Sen. Kamala Harris in 2019 (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign donated $500,000 to Al Sharpton’s nonprofit organization just weeks before the anti-Semitic MSNBC host—who once said that “diamond merchant” Jews have the “blood of innocent babies” on their hands—conducted a
The judge presiding over Donald Trump’s New York hush money case on Tuesday postponed a decision on whether charges against the president-elect should be dropped in light of the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity. Judge Juan Merchan agreed to freeze the case until Nov. 19, giving prosecutors time to assess the “unprecedented circumstances” following