With Vice President-elect JD Vance the early frontrunner in the race for the 2028 GOP presidential nomination, how do other potential contenders stay in the political spotlight?
Future 49, with proponents from civilian pilots to Gov. Mike Dunleavy, is primed to launch to promote Alaskan issues and its energy, economic and national security benefits to the U.S.
President-elect Trump’s return to the White House is forcing a major shift in editorial tone by some of the nation’s leading mainstream news outlets. News organizations like The Washington Post, CNN and others are again hoping to capitalize on a so-called Trump Bump in audience, as many of them did eight years ago. But a...
President Biden will attend service at Royal Missionary Baptist Church in Charleston, S.C., for his last trip as president on Sunday, a day before President-elect Trump’s inauguration. The president will deliver remarks at the service to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which is on Monday, about King’s legacy. Biden, alongside first lady Jill Biden,...
President Trump is sparking a new feud with Panama over an old topic: the vital maritime canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. What Trump is proposing would be a massive shift in the operation of the canal, which has been under Panamanian control since the turn of the millennium after a deal struck decades...
Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci on Monday urged Elon Musk to stay out of politics and focus on his successful businesses. “Stick to business. You‘ve done great. You‘ve made a couple hundred billion dollars since the election,” Scaramucci said in an interview on CNN’s “The Situation Room” with Wolf Blitzer, describing his advice...
Former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said on Monday that President-elect Trump's recent provocations about the U.S. possibly retaking control of the Panama Canal are part of a negotiating tactic to get the rates down. Mulvaney added, however, that Trump has leverage in the negotiating process because he makes “credible” threats. “This is...
Part of the Santa Cruz, Calif., wharf collapsed on Monday, sending three construction workers into the ocean. All victims were rescued — two by a lifeguard unit and a third managed to swim to safety, according to the Santa Cruz Fire Department, which noted that there were no reports of significant injuries “at this time.”...
Ford Motor Company said it will donate $1 million and a small fleet of vehicles for use in President-elect Trump’s inauguration, multiple outlets reported Monday. Ford joins a recent wave of major tech companies that have pledged hefty donations to the incoming president’s inaugural fund. While inaugural donations from companies are not new, the flood...
Former President Clinton was admitted to a Washington hospital Monday with a fever, his spokesperson said on social media. “President Clinton was admitted to Georgetown University Medical Center this afternoon for testing and observation after developing a fever,” Angel Ureña said on the social platform X around 5 p.m. EST. “He remains in good spirits...
Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) dropped his eleventh-hour lawsuit seeking to block the release of his House Ethics Committee report since the committee distributed it publicly. The report, released Monday, found “substantial evidence” that Gaetz paid a 17-year-old high school student for sex when he was 35, used illicit drugs like cocaine and ecstasy and...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved a pilot project that would allow a company to build a small road made out of a radioactive fertilizer byproduct — drawing environmentalist ire. The Biden administration's approval allows Mosaic Fertilizer, LLC to construct a road made of phosphogypsum on its property in New Wales, Fla. Phosphogypsum contains...
Former Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) Lt. Shane Lamond was convicted Monday of obstructing an investigation into the former Proud Boys national chair, Enrique Tarrio, just weeks before the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson found Lamond guilty on one count of obstructing justice and three counts of making false statements...
A chorus of supporters and critics have emerged following the commutation of nearly every federal death row inmate by President Biden, whose decision came at a time when he’s trying to frame a so-far troubled legacy. The president on Monday commuted the sentences of 37 federal death row inmates, reclassifying their sentences from execution to...
The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) has applauded President Biden for commuting the federal death sentences of 37 inmates, even as some Democrats have condemned the president’s actions. The CBC has advocated against the use of capital punishment at the federal level, in part because of the racial disparities in its employment, Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.), outgoing...
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan will leave the Biden administration at the end of this year — about a month before the presidency changes hands. While Regan could serve until Trump’s inauguration, he notified staff on Friday he will leave a few weeks early. “Today, I am writing to let you know that...
The scathing House Ethics Committee report released Monday caps off one of the most extensive investigations into former Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-Fla.) conduct, headlined by findings that Gaetz paid a 17-year-old high school student for sex and used illicit drugs like cocaine and ecstasy. The report accuses Gaetz of misusing his office to dispense a...
