Charles Hurt is stepping down as opinion editor of The Washington Times to take over hosting duties at Fox News' weekend morning show. He will continue to write his regular column for The Times.
Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin urged a skeptical Democratic-controlled Legislature on Monday to work with him to roll back taxes and environmental laws in his administration's final year in office.
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee pushed the confirmation hearing scheduled for Interior Secretary nominee Doug Burgum from Tuesday to Thursday because the chamber has yet to receive required ethics paperwork.
President Biden kicked off his last week in office on Monday trying to sell the American public on his foreign policy agenda, arguing that the U.S. became stronger under his administration.
Country music star Carrie Underwood will perform "America the Beautiful" at Donald Trump's inauguration next week and other performers will include two of the president-elect's musical favorites, country singer Lee Greenwood and opera singer Christopher Macchio.
President-elect Trump said Monday that California had the chance to “maintain their forests” amid the ongoing Los Angeles-area wildfires. “The problem is it's so dry, it was always so dry there, and it's just … it's just a mess. They could’ve, you know, maintained their forests, and — as I said they have to do,”...
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) said Monday that California doesn't “deserve” funding after wildfires unless they "make some changes." “If you go to California, you run into a lot of Republicans, a lot of good people, and I hate it for them, but they are just overwhelmed by, by these inner-city woke policies with the people...
The confirmation hearing for President-elect Trump's pick for the next the secretary of Veterans Affairs, former Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), has been delayed by a week until Jan. 21. Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), the chair of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs, said in a statement on Monday that Collins had submitted all of his paperwork in...
Florida Republican leaders in the state Legislature pushed back on Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) call for a special session to implement President-elect Trump’s immigration agenda, calling the move “premature.” In a letter addressed to their fellow legislators, state Senate President Ben Albritton (R) and state House Speaker Daniel Perez (R) said they were not aware...
Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna asked community members to be patient with local officials, as residents eagerly await permission to return to their homes in Southern California, where tens of thousands of acres have been decimated by wildfires in the past week. At a press conference on Monday, Luna said officials are still searching...
President-elect Trump and congressional Republicans are plotting how to address the nation’s debt limit this year. The debt ceiling, which caps how much money the Treasury can owe to pay the country’s bills, was reestablished earlier this month after being suspended for the past year and half. The national debt now stands at more than...
Special counsel David Weiss defended his handling of the Hunter Biden investigation in a final report capping his multiyear probe into the president’s son. Weiss pushed back against President Biden’s decision to pardon his son, as he was facing both tax and gun charges in two different states. Read the report below.
The Laken Riley Act on Monday cleared a second procedural hurdle in the Senate as talk turns to an amendment push by Democrats in order to potentially make alterations to the bill. Senators voted 82-10 on the motion to proceed to the legislation, allowing the chamber to begin debate. The legislation would mandate federal detention...
