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...
Former Vice President Mike Pence, who had to be evacuated four years ago Monday as rioters stormed the Capitol, welcomed "the return of order and civility" as Congress moved to certify President-elect Trump's 2024 victory. "The peaceful transfer of power is the hallmark of our democracy and today, members of both parties in the House...
Susie Wiles, President-elect Trump’s incoming White House chief of staff, praised President Biden's chief of staff Jeff Zients for his help during the presidential transition. Zients “has been very helpful. He has made great suggestions, helped make sure we stay on time with required functions, helped us navigate the labyrinth that is the Executive Office of the...
Vice President Harris is spoke Monday afternoon after Congress certified President-elect Trump’s electoral victory. The certification officially cemented his win over Harris ahead of his inauguration with no objections from any lawmakers. Harris presided over the event, donning a business-like or expressionless demeanor and refrained from any applause. Watch a replay of the remarks in...
A lead prosecutor on the Department of Justice's (DOJ) prosecution into President-elect Trump's mishandling of documents at Mar-a-Lago has retired from the department. Jay Bratt left the DOJ on Friday after 34 years of working for the department, a spokesperson confirmed. Bratt was a senior national security prosecutor who worked on the Mar-a-Lago documents case...
Less than 1 in 1,000 adolescents with commercial insurance received gender-affirming medication over a five-year period, according to a study released Monday. The researchers in the study surveyed more than 5 million patients, ages 8 to 17, from 2018 to 2022. Of those who received a gender-related diagnosis, 926 received puberty blockers during that time...
A small study published Monday found that the COVID-19 antiviral treatment Paxlovid may have use as a treatment for long COVID when administered outside of an infection. Administration of Paxlovid during a SARS-CoV-2 infection has previously been linked to a lower risk of developing long COVID symptoms. But a study published in the Nature science...
President-elect Trump pitched the idea of a “merged” United States and Canada after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation, noting there would be no tariffs if the two countries were one. “If Canada merged with the U.S., there would no Tariffs, taxes would go way down, and they would be TOTALLY SECURE from...
Federal prosecutors are mulling bringing charges against as many as 200 more people for their roles in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, including some 60 individuals suspected of assaulting or impeding law enforcement. The new figures, announced on Monday, mark the first time the Justice Department has revealed how many cases it believes are...
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's attempted martial law declaration sparked a wave of collective resistance from citizens, who used protests, social media, and cultural works to express their outrage and demand accountability from the government.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), on the fourth anniversary of the Capitol riots, said the Jan. 6 protesters were not “peace-loving individuals.” “The thugs who were part of the violence mob on January 6 desecrated the Capitol, threatened to hang the Vice President, assassinate the Speaker of the House and hunt down Members of...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigned on Monday, ahead of general elections later this year in which the ruling Liberal party is polling badly, and amid tensions with President-elect Trump who has threatened steep tariffs on the country over border policies. “I intend to resign as party leader, as prime minister,” Trudeau said. “Last night,...
China slammed the U.S. on Monday for sanctioning a Beijing-based cybersecurity firm allegedly behind a botnet targeting American infrastructure, accusing Washington of “using the issue of cybersecurity to vilify and smear China.” “On the so-called issue of cyberattacks, China has made clear our position more than once,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said at...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to announce his resignation as Canada's Liberal Party leader Monday, after nine years in the country's top office. The reports from Canadian news outlets come as Trudeau and the Liberals trail Conservatives in polls heading into the next general election, to be held by October at the latest....
