The Senate in a 77-22 vote on Tuesday confirmed Sean Duffy as President Donald Trump’s secretary of transportation. Trump tapped Duffy shortly after his election victory in November, calling the Wisconsin native a “tremendous and well-liked public servant.” The Senate advanced Duffy’s nomination on Monday with a 97-0 vote, following unanimous approval from the Senate
Michigan senator Gary Peters (D.) announced he will not seek a third term, creating a prime opportunity for Republicans to pick up the battleground state even as former transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg weighs a bid. Peters, who led Senate Democrats’ campaign efforts in the past two election cycles, plans to leave public office when his
President also signs order barring transgender troops (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order that abolishes diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in the military. The “Restoring America’s Fighting Force” order, released late Monday night, states that such programs “undermine leadership, merit, and unit cohesion, thereby eroding lethality and force readiness”
Even before the Los Angeles wildfires broke out, 6 in 10 Californians said the state was heading in the wrong direction. Add in the blazes that have since exposed Gavin Newsom’s incompetent governing, and it’s clear that Newsom’s flacks have their work cut out for them. We can almost sympathize, then, with the Newsom administration’s
President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order to develop an American version of the Israeli “Iron Dome” missile defense system, citing an increasing “threat from next-generation strategic weapons.” Trump pledged on the campaign trail that he would “direct our military to begin construction of the great Iron Dome missile defense shield, which will
Our colleagues Andrew Kerr and Susannah Luthi published a deeply sourced report on Friday about California governor Gavin Newsom’s decision last year to disband a highly trained volunteer firefighting force known as Team Blaze. As a result, the California National Guard wasn’t able to get a complete firefighting force to Los Angeles—meaning one that included
In one case, WaPo described the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terror org as a ‘small leftist armed group’ A Samidoun flier with an anti-Israel slogan. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images) The Washington Post cited the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, an anti-Semitic organization under U.S. sanctions for providing material support to terrorists, in a sympathetic