DALLAS — Republicans are increasingly worried that North Carolina’s Senate race is slipping out of contention.For months, they had argued that a post-Labor Day infusion of cash could jolt...
Republican politicians expressed outrage after NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeared to laugh on camera during a memorial for the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.
The California man who was captured on video last year while hurling large rocks at immigration officers during the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles was slapped with three years in prison.
The electricity grid that powered America through the 20th century will not work for this one. America is entering a new frontier of electricity demand. Growth in domestic manufacturing, artificial intelligence, and the electrification of heating and transportation are driving an anticipated 25% increase in power demand over the next 10 years. Meanwhile, the problems […]
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said statements in President Biden’s farewell speech came much too late in a Thursday statement, raising question with the commander-in-chief's parting remarks. “Now he tells us. Biden speaks out against dark money, for climate action, and for SCOTUS term limits. I pressed four years for this speech,” Whitehouse posted on the...
American Express has agreed to pay $230 million to settle a federal probe into deceptive marketing practices and civil fraud allegations, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday. Under the settlement released by the DOJ, American Express has agreed to pay a more than $108 million civil penalty to resolve allegations the company violated the...
Canada must send a “message” to President-elect Trump on tariffs, one of its provincial leaders said Wednesday alongside Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who described the threatened levies as unnecessary. The outgoing leader said Canada would "respond, purposefully, forcefully and resolutely" if the Trump administration implemented tariffs. “There’s no sugarcoating it,” Trudeau said alongside several provincial premiers. “The...
President-elect Trump named Troy Meink, a top spy chief who has previously served as a missile engineer, as his pick for secretary of the Air Force on Thursday. Trump said in a statement on Truth Social that Meink would work with his Defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth "to ensure that our Nation’s Air Force is...
Scott Bessent, President-elect Trump’s Treasury secretary nominee, said Thursday that he would not support raising the minimum wage. Bessent, if confirmed, would not have the authority to raise wages, which would require an act of Congress. But Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who introduced a bill in the 117th Congress to raise the minimum wage to...
Not waiting until after his inauguration, on Thursday President-elect Trump gave the country a look at what he says are the official portraits of himself and Vice President JD Vance.
The Biden administration has finalized a massive loan to electric-vehicle maker Rivian just days before the Trump administration is taking office. The $6.57 billion loan will finance an electric vehicle plant in Georgia where the company, which currently specializes in luxury vehicles, will make SUVs and crossover vehicles. The Energy Department, in a press release,...
The Biden administration is setting in motion actions that could prevent drilling in more “special areas” of Alaska’s north slope — if the incoming Trump administration does not shelve it. The Interior Department issued a memo Thursday proposing a new protected area and expansions of existing protected areas. The impacted areas would be expected to...
The Supreme Court has signaled it will release at least one opinion Friday, a hastily scheduled announcement that comes as TikTok’s divest-or-ban deadline approaches Sunday. The justices indicate in advance when they will hand down opinions, but Thursday’s update was highly unusual. It came with short notice and indicated the justices won’t read their opinions aloud...
The cancer mortality rate is continuing to decrease in America, but women – especially younger women – are seeing an uptick in diagnoses, according to new data released by the American Cancer Society (ACS). The ACS report, published Thursday, includes statistics based on mortality data through 2022 and cancer incidence data through 2021 – which...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Thursday selected Rep. Rick Crawford (R-Ark.) to chair the House Intelligence Committee, elevating the veteran panel member to the role after he removed Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) from the top job. The shift was a surprise on Capitol Hill, where Turner’s ouster sparked an outcry from Democrats and some Republicans...
The House of Representatives adopted rules for the 119th Congress that included changes to its standing procedures and the introduction of 12 policy-related bills, while Democrats proposed two priority bills to expand Medicare's drug price negotiation program and make the enhanced child tax credit permanent.
The Danish prime minister told President-elect Trump that Greenland will decide its future in a call Wednesday, according to a press release. The release from Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, translated from Danish through Google Translate, states that Frederiksen said in her call to the president-elect that Greenland’s independence is its own choice. Frederiksen also...
Attorneys for Rudy Giuliani and two former Georgia election workers said Thursday they have reached a tentative settlement, a remarkable twist that would end the workers’ extensive litigation to collect their $146 million defamation judgment. Giuliani was previously ordered to hand over most of his assets, but he was set to begin trial Thursday morning...
