Twenty-three years after the 9/11 attacks on NYC, new US intelligence documents reveal 234 “rehabbed” former Gitmo detainees have returned to terrorism and killing Americans — an alarming 32% recidivism...
All credit to the Polish government for protecting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from the malicious dictates of the International Criminal Court. The ICC is an illegitimate body, not recognized by the United States or Israel, that baselessly pretends to supersede national sovereignty while pursuing perverse notions of justice. On Nov. 30, the court issued […]
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) did not emerge from his meeting with President-elect Donald Trump with a promise that the Braddock Democrat would be named the “Pope of Greenland,” but Trump said Fetterman did earn his admiration for his commonsense approach to governing. “It was a totally fascinating meeting. He’s a fascinating man, and his wife […]
President-elect Trump’s Treasury Secretary pick Scott Bessent has plans to divest from funds and other investments as he prepares to take over as the country’s top economic official. In an agreement released Saturday by the Office of Government Ethics ahead of Bessent’s confirmation hearing on Thursday, he outlined his plans. Bessent, a billionaire hedge fund...
President-elect Trump asked the Supreme Court to delay the deadline for a potential TikTok ban, which is slated for the day before his inauguration. The court has agreed to hear TikTok’s challenge to the potential ban on an expedited schedule, but Trump told the justices that delaying the law until he returns to the White House...
Rep. Scott Perry (Pa.), a former chair of the House Freedom Caucus, is the latest Republican to decline to commit to supporting Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) as the House prepares to formally elect a Speaker on Jan. 3, adding uncertainty to the GOP leader’s prospects of retaining his gavel. “Right now, I think that Mike...
The only man to lead both the FBI and CIA spoke out against Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard, two of President-elect Trump’s top intelligence picks, saying both positions require “complete independence from political influence.” William Webster, who led the agencies under both Democratic and Republican presidents, made the comment in a letter to senators, saying...
A second Democratic Florida legislator has switched parties to the GOP this month, citing her former party’s lack of unified support for Israel. State Rep. Hillary Cassel (R) said in a Friday statement on the social platform X that she is not making the decision lightly, but she is joining the Republican Party because she...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) published an op-ed on Fox News, slamming the political power of billionaires in the U.S. and increasing wealth concentration, arguing the country is moving down "the path of oligarchy." Sanders, who in November secured his fourth term in the Senate, wrote that the country is diverging in two opposite directions: the...
A Trump World civil war has erupted over visas for highly skilled workers, with the president-elect’s new tech industry allies like Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy on one side and the anti-immigration MAGA base on the other. The clash is a preview of the challenges in holding the Trump coalition together as his administration executes...
Fifty-one percent of Americans approve of the way President-elect Trump has handled his presidential transition, according to a new Gallup survey. It's a slightly higher number than in December 2016, when 48 percent said they felt positive about the Trump transition compared to 48 percent who felt negative. In the new Gallup poll, 44 percent...
Homelessness in the U.S. hit the highest level on record this year as the affordable housing crisis intensifies, federal regulators said Friday. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) tallied more than 770,000 people experiencing homelessness on a single night in January, an 18 percent increase from 2023 that is likely an undercount. Families...
Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro (D) sharply criticized incoming “border czar” Tom Homan during a Friday appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe," saying a "heart of cruelty" is behind President-elect Trump's strident immigration policies. Homan, who has encouraged undocumented immigrants to "self-deport" out of the U.S., said this week that family detention...
A smattering of CEOs and top tech company leaders are currying favor with President-elect Trump, who has acknowledged with some awe that people who once went up against him now appear to be embracing the prospects of him becoming president. Top names in the business community have made the trip down to Mar-a-Lago, Trump's Florida...
The Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats after World War I, and the recent collapse of Syria has led to calls for the region to be divided according to ethnic and religious lines, as the current nation-states are not sustainable.
A genetic analysis of viral samples from a patient in Louisiana hospitalized with the first severe case of bird flu showed mutations that may result in the virus becoming more transmissible among humans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The agency in its latest update released Thursday said the mutations were not found in...
