Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker posted on X Saturday in recognition of Transgender Awareness Week. His billionaire family is deeply involved in awarding grants to the transgender movement.
President Biden awkwardly stood in the back corner of this year's APEC family photo on Saturday, which prominently featured Xi Jinping and Justin Trudeau towards the center.
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.
Betty White may soon be headed to your mailbox — the late legendary actor is poised to be honored with her own U.S. Postal Service (USPS) stamp. An image of the "Golden Girls" star is among several new stamps that will be making their debut next year, the USPS announced Friday. In a statement revealing...
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said that Key Square Group founder Scott Bessent would be an “outstanding” choice as President-elect Trump’s Treasury secretary. “I think he’d be outstanding. He’s from South Carolina, I know him well, he’s highly qualified,” Graham told news outlet Semafor on Thursday. “I think he’s been well-vetted,” he added. Bessent, a hedge...
Pundit George Conway, an outspoken Republican critic of President-elect Trump, said the recent Cabinet picks are "truly as bad as you can imagine." He singled out the nominations of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary, Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence and former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) as U.S. attorney...
Browsing real estate listings is enough to make you wish you invented a time machine so you could have bought a house a generation ago. This article may also have that effect.
Should Hegseth win Senate confirmation, he will discover when he takes office that changing the Pentagon’s behavioral and cultural patterns is easier said than done.
House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said Thursday that the former Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-Fla.) House Ethics Commitee report “shouldn’t go public," amid pressure to release it after he was tapped for a potential Trump administration role. “Well, it’s my understanding that it’s not supposed to go public. So, if it’s not supposed to...
How entertaining it will be in coming months to watch Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy take a hatchet to our bloated, inefficient federal government — but shrinking our government and cutting unnecessary regulations is also deadly serious.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) criticized President-elect Trump's decision to tap environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), claiming it will set the U.S. back more than 200 years. “You have a baby, and anywhere in the world, I mean, protecting against polio, against measles, against very...
Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) launched a bid for Democratic leadership on Thursday, announcing his candidacy for co-chair of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee (DPCC). If he wins the position, he will be the first Generation Z congressional leader from either party. He shared a letter, obtained by Axios, with fellow lawmakers to hammer down...
A former Detroit Lions linebacker was arrested and charged with allegedly assaulting law enforcement and other offenses over the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). Leander Antwione Williams, 31, of Savannah, Ga., was charged with a felony offense of resisting, assaulting and impending law police officers, according to the...
Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) admitted he would be “surprised” if Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), President-elect Trump’s pick for attorney general gets confirmed, joining a crowd of doubters that include Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and others. “I’d actually be surprised if Gaetz gets confirmed,” Kinzinger told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Thursday in the clip highlighted by...
