Top Trump administration officials said Sunday the Afghan refugee accused of shooting two National Guardsmen before Thanksgiving in the nation's capital was likely radicalized in the U.S. after entering the country in 2021.
White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said Sunday that retailers enjoyed a "blockbuster" sales weekend after Thanksgiving despite narratives about economic pessimism under President Trump.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) said he thinks it’s “very possible” that a reported follow-up strike on two survivors of an initial U.S. attack in the Caribbean in September could constitute a war crime. “I think it's very possible there was a war crime committed,” Van Hollen said in an interview on ABC News’s “This...
At the U.S.-Central Asia Summit, the U.S. and Kazakhstan announced initiatives to deepen cooperation in digital infrastructure and high-performance computing, including the establishment of a $2 billion regional AI Compute Hub in Kazakhstan, to address the growing demand for energy and critical minerals for AI systems.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) predicted Sunday that the Senate will hold a vote on extending subsidies offered under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) this year. “That vote will happen. And whether it will pass is in the hands of Donald Trump and the Republicans,” Klobuchar told host Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union.”...
On the ground in Ukraine, all of my sources are giving indications it is highly tense, and they do not like where the conversation is going between the Kremlin and White House.
Senate Republicans are venting their frustration over Attorney General Pam Bondi’s management of thousands of records related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and, more recently, mistakes made by the Department of Justice (DOJ) in handling a controversial indictment against former FBI Director James Comey. Several Republican senators say that controversies at the Justice Department...
House Republicans are throwing cold water on the idea of making discharge petitions harder to execute — and threatening to launch even more of the rarely used gambits to circumvent leadership. The heightened interest in the rarely used tool comes after Democrats teamed up with a small group of Republicans to force a vote on...
For former national security adviser John Bolton, a trial is a long way off. At a hearing in his criminal case Friday, a federal judge made no attempt to set a trial date on the allegations of mishandled classified material, forced instead to grapple with a pretrial schedule that will likely stretch into next fall...
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) said that the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell will “plead the Fifth” against congressional investigators. “Her lawyers have replied that she’s not going to answer any questions,” Comer told Politico in an interview Friday. “She’s only going to plead the Fifth.” ...
Attorney General Pam Bondi has filed an expedited motion seeking the release of the grand jury transcripts in the Jeffrey Epstein case amid an aggressive push by lawmakers to release all files related to the late convicted sex offender. Bondi filed the motion in the U.S. District Court of Southern Florida, leveraging the enactment of...
President Trump on Friday night said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-Ga.) announcement that she is leaving Congress in early January is "great news for the country" — perhaps pouring salt on the wound one week after pulling his support from her. The president told ABC News's Rachel Scott that Greene, formerly one of Trump's biggest...
Kansas City Chiefs special teams coordinator Dave Toub brushed off President Trump’s criticism of the National Football League’s (NFL) new kickoff rule, saying Trump has “no idea what’s going on.” “He doesn’t even know what he’s looking at,” Toub said at a Thursday press conference in response to a reporter’s question about Trump’s comments. “He...
A federal judge has blocked the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from handing over the home address information of taxpayers who may be undocumented to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued a 94-page ruling Friday in a lawsuit brought by the Center for Taxpayer Rights against the IRS that called the...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) announced on Friday that she is resigning from Congress, following her public fallout with President Trump in which he un-endorsed her and called her a “traitor.” The decision comes one week after Trump pulled his support from the Georgia Republican. “I have too much self respect and dignity, love my...
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has threatened to revoke nearly $75 million in federal funding from Pennsylvania for “illegally” issuing commercial driver’s licenses to “ineligible and unqualified foreign drivers.” Duffy announced the possible withholding of funds on Thursday, alleging that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) had found multiple instances of Pennsylvania’s Department of Transportation...
Fox News host Brian Kilmeade said that President Trump and New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani had gotten along “fantastic” during their Friday meeting and that J.D. Vance was “jealous.” “I think J.D. Vance is jealous,” the "Fox & Friends" host said. “I think the president wants to use him [Mamdani] as a running mate....
