This effort to paper over radicalism is neatly summed up in the “Woke 1 was craaazy” noise from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — a pretense of a pivot to the...
Two of the highest-profile Jan. 6 prisoners — Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio — were released from prison Tuesday following President Trump’s order granting pardons or clemency to more than 1,500 rioters charged in connection to the Capitol attack of Jan. 6, 2021. Tarrio was serving a 22-year...
Twenty-two Democrat-led states and two cities challenged President Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship, which on Tuesday kicked off the first legal battles between his new Justice Department and Democratic attorneys general. The two separate lawsuits, filed in Massachusetts and Washington state, ask federal judges to rule the order contradicts the Constitution, which under the 14th...
Newly sworn-in Secretary of State Marco Rubio is hitting the ground running Tuesday with meetings with his counterparts in the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, known as the Quad, which includes India, Australia and Japan, a bloc formed to counter Chinese clout in the Indo-Pacific. The meeting is set to take place Tuesday afternoon at 2:45 p.m. ET...
The reverend at the National Cathedral prayer service for the inauguration called on President Trump to have mercy on transgender children and immigrant families in her sermon on Tuesday. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde said to Trump, who was sitting in the first pew, that millions of Americans have “put their trust in you” before making...
President Trump is expected to attend an inaugural prayer service at Washington National Cathedral, meet with Republican leaders, and continue to work on executive and congressional actions on Day Two of his second administration.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday said it "regrets" President Trump's move to withdraw from the global health authority, saying it hopes the U.S. will reconsider the decision. President Trump signed an executive order on the first day of his second term announcing his intent to withdraw from the WHO, citing what he referred...
The Senate Finance Committee voted 16-11 on Tuesday morning to advance the nomination of Scott Bessent, President Trump’s pick for Treasury secretary. Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) bucked party lines to join Republicans in backing the nomination. But the vote did not come without last-minute opposition from Democrats. Senate Finance Chairman Ron...
Comedian Jon Stewart on Monday criticized the appearance of tech moguls at President Trump’s inauguration. “Yes, taking the place of seats normally reserved for Democratic or Republican governors, sat Zuck, Bezos, Tim Cook, Elon, Tic Tac guy, Google guy, the six guys who control maybe 20 percent of the world's wealth and 100 percent of...
Former Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), whom President Trump nominee selected to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is scheduled to testify at her confirmation hearing on Tuesday. Stefanik will appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee starting at 10 a.m. EST. Watch it live in the video player above.
A bipartisan bill called the Protecting Students on Campus Act, recently reintroduced in the Senate, aims to make it easier for students to file civil rights complaints against their schools. Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, and John Fetterman (D-Pa.) reintroduced the legislation after previously bringing it forth...
President Trump's commitment to border security and immigration reform is supported by Utah Sen. John Curtis, who emphasizes the need to uphold both compassion and the rule of law in addressing the issue of illegal immigration.
President Trump ended his Inaugural Ball on Monday with a dance that included fist pumps and a large sword. At the end of Monday's event at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., "YMCA" by The Village people began to play, as it has at many Trump rallies and events in recent months....
