The "Make America Great Again" flag will fly above the Louisiana governor's mansion in honor of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, Republican Gov. Jeff Landry announced Friday.
In one of her last acts as Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen said her agency will start taking "extraordinary measures," or special accounting maneuvers intended to prevent the nation from hitting the debt ceiling, on January 21 in a letter sent to congressional leaders Friday afternoon.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams said his meeting with President-elect Donald Trump on Friday included discussions of bringing manufacturing jobs back to the city and the Gaza ceasefire deal - but not the mayor's federal bribery case.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, one of President-elect Donald Trump's top political adversaries, has shifted his focus in recent days from gearing up for legal battles against the incoming Republican administration to prioritizing the state's response to destructive wildfires around Los Angeles.
King Charles III used his annual Christmas address to thank the medical workers who have provided care for the royal family and hailed the humanitarian workers “tirelessly” providing aid to those engulfed in conflict around the world. The 76-year-old British monarch delivered his speech from Fitzrovia Chapel, a community space in London and a former...
A Taliban government official said the airstrikes Pakistan launched on Afghanistan Tuesday killed 46 people, including women and children, according to The Associated Press. Hamdullah Fitrat, the deputy spokesperson for the Afghan government, said the strikes hit four locations in the district of Barmal. Pakistani security officials told the AP their mission was to kill...
Editor's note: President Biden commuted the sentences of 37 people on federal death row to life in prison. President Biden is readying to leave the White House with little fanfare. Democrats are eager to turn the page on a poor year in which they lost again to President-elect Trump, who has swallowed up much of...
A body was found in a wheel well of a United Airlines flight upon landing Tuesday in Maui, Hawaii, according to the airline. “Upon arrival at Kahului airport in Maui on Tuesday, a body was found in the wheel well of one of the main landing gears on a United aircraft,” the airline told The...
Political instability in Germany and France, combined with the return of Donald Trump in 2025, threatens to undermine the EU's ability to shape responses to the Ukraine war and other geopolitical and economic challenges.
The US-based Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project reported that the military under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed launched a drone strike into the crowded market, killing 43 people and marking the deadliest drone strike since the Abiy government stepped up its fighting this summer in the Amhara region.
Outgoing Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) said she is open to mounting another run for office in the future. In the meantime, the two-term lawmaker will organize and work on the same issues she focused on long before she stepped foot on Capitol Hill. “The possibilities are endless. All I know right now is that I...
The coming policy clash that no one sees coming is where the burgeoning sports gambling world will undoubtedly cross paths with the Homeland Security world.
President-elect Trump’s choice for special envoy to Ukraine and Russia, retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, slammed the Russian military missile and drone attack on Christmas Day and said the U.S. is “more resolved than ever to bring peace to the region.” “Christmas should be a time of peace, yet Ukraine was brutally attacked on Christmas...
After long being an unofficial symbol, the white head, yellow beak bald eagle became the official U.S. bird on Christmas Eve. President Biden signed 50 bills into law Tuesday. Among them was Senate bill 4610, legislation amending Title 36 of the U.S. Code to designate the predator as the national bird. The bill was originally...
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned Russia’s President Vladimir Putin for greenlighting an “inhumane” Christmas Day attack, including missiles and drones, that damaged Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and left thousands with power outages. “Today, Putin deliberately chose Christmas for an attack,” Zelensky said in a Wednesday post on social platform X. “What could be more inhumane? Over...
