A woman twice showed up uninvited at Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff's $8 million Malibu home, prompting security to call the sheriff late Friday evening.
Alaska prosecutors are dropping voter misconduct cases against a group of residents born in American Samoa after a state appeals court threw out felony charges against a woman who wrongly checked a box saying she was a U.S. citizen.
Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kans.) appeared to shift his opinion on President Trump’s $5,000 dividends announced earlier this week. In a debate at the Kansas State Fair against Democratic opponent Adam Hamilton, a moderator asked both candidates if they supported the dividends, citing the proposal’s $1.2 trillion cost amid the growing national debt. “I’m going to...
A top watchdog agency for consumer finance has accused credit rating company Experian of failing to properly investigate consumer disputes. In an announcement Tuesday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said it had sued the company for unlawfully failing to investigate consumers' issues. “The CFPB alleges that Experian does not take sufficient steps to intake,...
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) announced on Tuesday their decision to represent an Iowa pollster entangled in a lawsuit with President-elect Trump stemming from a November poll from renowned pollster Ann Selzer that showed him losing to Vice President Harris. “Trump’s lawsuit, brought under an Iowa law against ‘consumer fraud,’ violates long-standing...
Former President Jimmy Carter's state funeral is an opportunity to reflect on the evolution of presidential state funerals and how Americans have mourned their leaders, with the first president to lay in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, Abraham Lincoln.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman suggested that President-elect Trump should ease restrictions on data center and power plant construction to help boost the development of energy-intensive artificial intelligence (AI). In a wide-ranging interview with Bloomberg published Sunday, Altman said the most helpful thing the incoming Trump administration can do for AI is support the construction of...
Outgoing Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Mark Warner (D-Va.) said that his meeting with former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii) has left him with more questions as she looks to win confirmation in the coming weeks to lead the U.S. intelligence community. Warner sat down with Gabbard, Trump's pick for director of national intelligence, on Wednesday, a...
Reducing the amount of water used to irrigate livestock feed crops may be critical to revitalizing the dried-out Great Salt Lake, a new study has found. About 62 percent of the river water heading toward the lake in Utah ends up rerouted for human purposes, with agricultural needs responsible for almost three-quarters of those diversions,...
Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill (R) said security measures would be in place through Mardi Gras celebrations in March after a deadly New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans. “I think that you're going to see a lot more resources moved into place during Mardi Gras,” Murrill said during a Tuesday press conference. "You're going to see barriers...
The Carter administration administration marked a break from the Cold War-era policies of prioritizing strategic interests over moral values, advocating instead for a foreign policy that emphasized human rights and democracy.
The Georgia Republican Party has booted longtime President-elect Trump critic former Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R), who backed Vice President Harris’s 2024 bid for the White House. A resolution from the state GOP’s State Executive Committee featured in a Tuesday release from the party stated the former lieutenant governor “is hereby expelled from the Georgia...
The Defense Department has added dozens of Chinese firms to a list of companies that are prohibited from working with the Pentagon and defense industry due to their alleged ties with China's military, including the massive tech firm Tencent. The updated blacklist, published Tuesday on the federal register, also includes the company Contemporary Amperex Technology...
By artifice, luck, disinformation and extraordinary political success, Trump has shown that the only verdict that counts is in the court of public opinion.
