President-elect Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency has elevated the problem of wasteful spending from think-tank white papers to a national cover story. With $36 trillion in national debt —...
President Biden will sign an executive order on Thursday intended to boost the privacy of Americans amid continued cyberattacks against the U.S. "Adversary countries and criminals have increasingly targeted the U.S. government, corporations and individual Americans with cyberattacks that disrupt critical services, businesses and individual lives, costing billions of dollars as well as damages," a...
Trump's attorney general nominee Pam Bondi vowed to head up a Justice Department free from political influence if confirmed — and her full court press appears to be paying off.
Lawmakers who served on the House committee investigating Trump's actions tied to the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot have been split about the importance of a preemptive pardon.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered that flags at the state Capitol temporarily fly at full-staff for the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump on Jan. 20.
The cryptocurrency industry spent big in the 2024 election, and its investment is about to pay off in the incoming Congress and administration. For more than a decade, there was a lack of clarity from federal regulators that left industry advocates frustrated, especially as the Biden administration went after crypto giants including Coinbase and Ripple...
Common Cause is urging Congress to preserve the Office of Congressional Ethics, an independent watchdog that has investigated nearly the same number of Republicans and Democrats since its inception in 2008, and is calling for reforms to ensure its future.
Finland on Thursday seized a ship carrying oil for Russia in relation to the recent cutting of an undersea cable connecting electricity to Estonia as concern mounts over ships disrupting power and gas lines in European waters. Finland's national law enforcement body, the Police of Finland, said in a statement it had seized a Cook...
President Biden on Thursday arrived in St. Croix for his last vacation as president before leaving office next month. The president left the White House the day after Christmas with first lady Jill Biden. He arrived in St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands around 2 p.m. EST Thursday, along with his daughter Ashley Biden....
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, co-chairs of President-elect Trump’s new “Department of Government Efficiency,” are defending the tech industry’s reliance on foreign-born engineers as the incoming Trump administration prepares to crack down on immigration. Musk and Ramaswamy both pointed to a lack of engineers stateside. “The number of people who are super talented engineers AND...
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) on Thursday criticized President-elect Trump for saying the U.S. should take control of the Panama Canal and purchase Greenland. “It is utterly preposterous to suggest that we are going to send our military into Panama to, quote, 'take back the Panama Canal,'" Wasserman Schultz said during a Thursday appearance on...
NATO called for a formal investigation Thursday into the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash that killed 38 people in Kazakhstan. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and victims of #AzerbaijanAirlines flight #J28243. We wish those injured in the crash a speedy recovery and call for a full investigation,” wrote NATO spokesperson Farah Dakhlallah in...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) on Thursday signed a law that will require companies responsible for large amounts of planet-warming pollution to contribute to climate damage repair efforts. Under the new state law, companies responsible for the bulk of emissions from 2000 to 2018 will be on the hook for some $3 billion a...
Water fluoridation is one of the 10 greatest public health achievements of the 20th century, as it helps to prevent tooth decay and reduce cavities, and is endorsed by the World Health Organization and the American Dental Association.
President-elect Trump’s "border czar" Tom Homan said in a Thursday interview that halfway homes for children of non-U.S. citizens may be a necessary part of Trump's plans for mass deportation of immigrants lacking permanent legal status. “As far as U.S. children — children, that's going to be a difficult situation, because we're not going to...
