President Joe Biden on Saturday honored Pope Francis with the Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction, the highest civilian award given by the president, saying the pontiff was "a light of faith, hope, and love that shines brightly across the world."
Conservative lawmakers across the U.S. are pushing to introduce more Christianity to public school classrooms, testing the separation of church and state by inserting Bible references into reading lessons and requiring teachers to post the Ten Commandments.
The Biden administration prepared new action Monday to regulate artificial intelligence before President-elect Donald Trump takes office next week, forcing the incoming administration to make quick decisions about restricting emerging technology.
At the hands of President Joe Biden and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, the nation has witnessed one foreign policy disaster after the next. The duo’s catastrophic decision-making and military execution has left Americans dead, our military vulnerable, and our adversaries emboldened. To right the ship and steer America back on course, the next defense secretary […]
How this plays out remains to be seen, although, given the failures of the last four years, it is worth trying something new, no matter how unorthodox it may seem.
President-elect Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are expected to have a phone call in the coming days or weeks, Trump’s incoming national security adviser, Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.), said on Sunday. In an interview on ABC News’s “This Week,” Waltz said “the preparations are underway” for a meeting between Trump and Putin. “I do...
Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) said on Sunday that a “paperwork problem” with the Office of Government Ethics is holding up the hearing for President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the U.S. intelligence community, former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii). In an interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” Margaret Brennan noted that Gabbard appears to...
In today’s issue: The Cabinet nominees are officially going under the Senate’s microscope. Starting Tuesday, senators will hold hearings to confirm President-elect Trump’s picks to lead the executive branch. For weeks, the nominees have undergone rigorous preparations for their appearances, CNN reports, including mock hearings and coaching from Republican senators to sidestep tough questions anticipated from Democratic colleagues and tips...
The Biden administration is poised to try to lower the amount of nicotine in tobacco products, an eleventh-hour effort that’s been years in the making. The move would give the White House one last chance to try to regulate tobacco, as it previously punted on finalizing a long-standing pledge to ban menthol-flavored cigarettes. The rule...
President-elect Trump wants congressional Republicans to figure out a way to avoid a default on the national debt after venting his frustration with the Senate GOP over their failure to raise the debt limit as part of a government-funding package last month. Trump told Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) at a recent meeting that...
Senate Democrats want to slow the roll on Tulsi Gabbard, President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the U.S. intelligence community. Democrats are insisting on delaying Gabbard’s confirmation hearing for director of national intelligence, saying they still don’t have the full slate of background checks, ethics disclosures and paperwork on a candidate whose overall qualifications have sparked...
Senate Armed Services Committee Democrats are fuming as Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump’s controversial pick to lead the Pentagon, is set to head back to Capitol Hill Tuesday for his confirmation hearing before the panel. Hegseth, a former Fox News host, has met with numerous Republican senators in the weeks since Trump on Nov. 12 first...
The Senate is kicking off confirmation hearings for President-elect Trump’s cabinet nominees this week, with a slew of his picks — some controversial, others with strong support — set to appear before committees and field questions on their backgrounds and visions for the administration. Headlining the list of nominees this week is Pete Hegseth, Trump’s...
