Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) is facing mounting backlash over her response to the wildfires that have torn through her city, raising questions about her own political future as the region continues to struggle to contain the fires. Critics point to Bass’s decision to travel out of the country ahead of the wildfires after...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has sued tech billionaire Elon Musk, alleging he committed securities fraud by failing to disclose his ownership of Twitter. According to the SEC complaint filed Tuesday in D.C. District Court, Musk withheld information that allowed him to underpay for the shares of Twitter he bought “after his financial beneficial...
The confirmation hearing for South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R), President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), was postponed by two days. Noem will appear before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Friday at 9 a.m. She was previously slated to appear before the committee on Wednesday. A...
Reps. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) and Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) got into a heated exchange during a Tuesday Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing and discussion about civil rights and transgender rights that ended with Mace suggesting the two could “take it outside.” Crockett asked her fellow members to reinstate the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties,...
Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump's choice for Defense secretary, on Tuesday emerged largely unscathed from an at times blistering confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Democratic lawmakers on the panel took aim at Hegseth’s lack of experience leading an agency as large and complex as the Pentagon, claims related to his treatment of women...
President-elect Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) met for a round of golf on Tuesday, according to a source familiar with the matter, as the Florida governor mulls a replacement for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Trump’s secretary of State nominee. A number of names have been floated for the post, including Florida Attorney General...
President Biden has officially designated two new national monuments in California. The White House announced last week that Biden would designate the Chuckwalla National Monument and the Sáttítla Highlands National Monument — protecting a combined 848,000 acres of particular significance to Native American tribes in the region. However, the designations were postponed until this week. ...