A Jan. 6 prisoners advocacy organization is now preparing for the mass release of all incarcerated Jan. 6 defendants when President-elect Donald Trump is sworn into the White House on Jan. 20.
President Jimmy Carter's funeral service Thursday at Washington's National Cathedral brought together politicians of both parties and generated interaction between former running mates.
The Senate on Tuesday will begin confirmation hearings for President-elect Donald Trump's top nominees, with 10 of the 15 Cabinet nominees set to testify across three consecutive days.
Mark Zuckerberg further distanced himself from the Biden administration during an appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast, where the Meta CEO accused administration officials of screaming to have content taken down.
The first installment of Kevin Costner’s new Western film series Horizon: An American Saga isn’t necessarily the best Western you’ll ever watch. It’s thoroughly conventional in many ways. American settlers fight Indians and the elements to build a town, which eventually becomes a representative locale of the Old West. It’s set in the 1870s, and […]
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) appears to be bucking President-elect Trump's endorsement of Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who he criticized in a tweet as a "potato" like President Biden. “I respect and support President Trump, but his endorsement of Mike Johnson is going to work out about as well as his endorsement of Speaker Paul Ryan,”...
Chinese state-sponsored actors hacked into the Treasury Department in early December, accessing unclassified documents from its workstations, the agency said in a letter to lawmakers Monday. The hackers stole a key from a third-party software service provider, BeyondTrust, and used it to override security and gain access to Treasury workstations, according to the letter from...
Former NFL star Rob Gronkowski publicly backed tech billionaire Elon Musk over his idea to simplify the tax code. “Please do!!!!!!” Gronkowski posted on X in response to Musk’s post. “Drastic simplification now!!!” Musk posted on X, the social platform he owns, calling for a “drastic simplification” of the tax code. He was responding to...
Special counsel Jack Smith formally withdrew from the Mar-a-Lago documents case Friday, referring the ongoing prosecution of President-elect Trump’s two co-defendants to federal prosecutors in the Southern District of Florida. Smith formally dropped charges against Trump in both of his federal cases in November, dismissing them without prejudice while citing Justice Department policy that prohibits...
Russia’s connection to the rupture of an undersea cable between Finland and Estonia is raising a new bevy of fears over the sabotage of critical power lines. The new incidents come as tensions between the West and Russia and China have risen over the war in Ukraine, and as the world braces for a shift...
A U.S. soldier has died in Iraq from noncombat injuries, according to the Defense Department. Capt. Eric Richard Hart, 34, of Indianapolis, died Saturday, the Pentagon said. Hart was supporting the U.S. military's operations against the designated terrorist group ISIS in Iraq. He was assigned to the 38th Infantry Division within the Indiana National Guard....
Opponents of Alaska’s ranked-choice system are renewing their efforts to overhaul the voting method ahead of 2026 after an effort to undo the system narrowly failed last month. Two groups submitted petitions this month that would get rid of ranked-choice voting and open primaries. One of those groups is also seeking to undo a provision aimed at...
Russia and Ukraine announced Monday a swap of more than 300 prisoners of war. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced his team secured the return of 189 Ukrainians, while Russia announced the return of 150 service members. “The return of our people from Russian captivity is always very good news for each of us. And...
The son of North Dakota Sen. Kevin Cramer (R) was sentenced Monday to 28 years in prison over a police chase and death of a local sheriff’s deputy. Ian Cramer, 43, was charged with manslaughter last December after he crashed his family’s SUV into a police cruiser, concluding an hourlong chase. He killed the sheriff’s...
The German government on Monday accused Elon Musk of trying to influence its February election after the world’s wealthiest person penned an op-ed this weekend backing the far-right political party Alternative for Germany (AfD). “It is indeed the case that Elon Musk is trying to influence the federal election through his statement,” government spokesperson Christiane...
Former President Jimmy Carter died on Sunday at the age of 100. The 39th president and former Georgia governor had received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts around peace and human rights over the decades. President Biden said Carter “lived a life measured not by words but by deeds.” Biden set Carter's state funeral...
Orlando-based attorney and former President Biden donor John Morgan is weighing a third-party run for Florida governor in 2026. Morgan, who switched his registration from Democrat to independent, told The Hill on Monday that many have urged him to run following his success in leading two separate statewide ballot measures to legalize medical marijuana in...
