President-elect Trump boasted on Monday about special counsel Jack Smith’s move to drop the federal cases against him. “These cases, like all of the other cases I have been forced to go through, are empty and lawless, and should never have been brought,” Trump said on his Truth Social platform, shortly after news broke that...
President-elect Trump’s criminal indictment accusing him of conspiring to subvert the 2020 election results is no more. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan on Monday swiftly granted special counsel Jack Smith’s motion to dismiss the case following Trump’s election victory. “The court will therefore grant the Government leave to dismiss this case,” Chutkan wrote. She dismissed...
A former anchor for ABC News claims years of working in a toxic work environment and enduring racist rhetoric from superiors led him to attempt suicide. In his new memoir, former “World News Now” anchor Kendis Gibson alleges he was subjected to one of the most grueling desks, repeatedly had his pitches dismissed or handed...
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) will hold its leadership elections Feb. 1, less than two weeks after President-elect Trump is inaugurated. Elections will take place at the party's winter meeting in National Harbor, Md., according to a Monday press release. Jamie Harrison, chair of the DNC, rolled out next steps for the election, which will decide the roles of chair, vice chairs,...
Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) will resign from the House on Jan. 20, the day President-elect Trump takes office, to become the national security adviser for Trump's second term, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to The Hill. His upcoming resignation means that House Republicans, who were already slated to have a razor-tight majority, will...
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — Ukraine needs money invested into its own military production industry, not foreign troops to fight its war against Russia, Estonian Minister of Defense Hanno Pevkur told The Hill. While President Biden has lifted restrictions on American military contractors traveling to Ukraine to assist in maintenance and repair of equipment, European leaders are reportedly debating whether to send troops into Ukraine for...
California Rep. Ro Khanna (D) said President-elect Trump’s new attorney general pick, Pam Bondi, has said some “concerning” things about investigating the people who investigated Trump’s various legal battles. Khanna on Monday joined CNN’s Jim Acosta, who asked about Bondi’s comments and the concern that Trump’s attorney general pick might use the department to go...
The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) antitrust case against Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, will head to trial on April 14. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg scheduled a bench trial, meaning the case will not go before a jury and the judge will decide the outcome of the trial. The case had been...
Elon Musk criticized the British government, continuing his feud by calling the U.K. a “tyrannical police state” as the country grapples with violent unrest. In a post on X, the social media platform that Musk owns, he shared a post that said a petition going around England has more than 1 million signatures calling for...
The Trump administration could launch a new national service project that would give undocumented immigrants the opportunity to contribute to our ongoing efforts to create a more perfect union.
Exposure to the tiny pollutants emitted by wildfires may be increasing the older adult population’s odds of dementia diagnosis, a new study has found. Among more than 1.2 million people tracked over a decade in Southern California, each microgram-per-cubic-meter rise in wildfire-borne particulate matter (PM 2.5) exposure was associated with an 18 percent increase in...
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — Canada’s military chief is working to soften the expected blowback from President-elect Trump’s return to office, with Canada trailing the majority of NATO allies in reaching the targeted 2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) for defense spending. NATO allies not spending enough on defense is a major feature of Trump’s...
President-elect Trump’s pick for “border czar,” Tom Homan, on Sunday threatened funding for states that refuse to cooperate in the federal government's deportation plans. Fox News’s Mark Levin, in an interview with Homan aired Sunday, said the border czar will have “a very, very powerful weapon that the Democrats, when they’re in power, use against...
