Former federal prosecutor Harry Litman says former Rep. Matt Gaetz would fail a background check for an entry-level position at the Justice Department, which President-elect Donald Trump wants him to run.
After two days of meetings in Lima that rarely ventured beyond platitudes in discussing the strategies of robust economic engagement, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum wrapped up Saturday with a spirit of detente that many fear the annual summit may not see again for the next four years.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem oversees a state government that employs about 12,000 people. If President-elect Donald Trump gets his way, she'll soon be in charge of the sprawling Homeland Security Department, with 260,000 employees.
Mark Penn, an adviser to the Clintons for over a decade and now runs the Harris Poll, contends that Democrats' demonization of Donald Trump caused voters to tune out the noise.
Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.), two of the Senate’s most aggressive advocates for action on climate change, said Friday that the second Trump presidency will be a major setback for that action but expressed confidence there would still be opportunities for progress. Speaking on a press call from the COP29 climate summit...
Kamala Harris lost the presidency to Donald Trump because she ran an awful campaign. Contrary to received wisdom, this was not because she did not adequately distance herself from President Biden; rather, it was because she did not embrace him sufficiently.
The FDA's REMS program has been found to have unintentionally created barriers to accessing clozapine, a crucial antipsychotic drug for treatment-resistant schizophrenia, leading to tragic stories of relapses and suicide attempts.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) called on Senate Republicans on Friday to act as a check on the incoming Trump administration — a response to a handful of controversial Cabinet nominations announced by the former president this week. Jeffries declined to weigh in specifically on President-elect Trump's list of picks, which includes two of...
The Texas Supreme Court ruled that a legislative subpoena cannot be used to stop an execution after lawmakers on both sides of the aisle used it last month to pause Robert Roberson's execution. Roberson, 57, was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Oct. 17 after being convicted of killing his 2-year-old daughter, when...
Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown (D), who was unseated last week by Republican businessman Bernie Moreno, seems open to a bid to replace Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), who will be leaving the upper chamber to serve as vice president. “I’m not ruling anything out," Brown told Politico when asked if he might run for the remainder...
A few years ago, U.S. workers were spoiled with perks in the office, particularly if they worked in tech or for a big bank. From dedicated coffee areas to fully-catered meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner, some workers also enjoyed free massages, on-site laundry and gym facilities, or even shuttle services. Many of these extras...
The 119th Congress will be the first to begin since the Supreme Court overturned its 1984 Chevron decision, and their are proposed reforms to restore the role of the legislative branch in policymaking, incentivizing members to invest in lawmaking and reclaiming its role as the people's chamber.
President-elect Trump's pick for defense secretary, Fox News personality Pete Hegseth, was involved in a 2017 sexual assault incident in California, according to Monterey City police. The city confirmed an investigation into an "alleged sexual assault" at a home in the city in October 2017 between the late night hours and early morning. A summary...
CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin spoke out on President-elect Trump’s nomination of now-former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) for attorney general, saying the decision resulted in a “shift in tone” for Wall Street CEOs. “Up until that moment, so many of them had frankly a big grin on their face about where the markets were going,” he said. “When [the...
Kathleen Sebelius, a former Democratic governor who served as Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary during the Obama administration, said that having anti-vaccine activist and environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. leading HHS is "very frightening" for Americans. "To have someone coming into a scientific agency that is a vaccine skeptic and may well undo decades of...
A tech lobbying group called on President-elect Trump and his team to ensure the U.S. maintains leadership in the development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) as it crafts the incoming regulations and policy on the advancing technology. The Software Alliance — also known as BSA — argued in a letter to Trump and Vice...
