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Biden administration says it’s done selling off border wall materials — for now

The Biden administration told a federal judge Friday that it's done selling off border wall materials for now and won't get rid of anything else until President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

Trump asks Supreme Court to delay TikTok ban to allow him to solve national security concerns

President-elect Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court to delay the upcoming federal ban against TikTok, telling the justices that he wants to address the national security and free speech concerns surrounding the popular social media app once he takes office Jan. 20.

Janet Yellen tells Congress U.S. could hit debt limit in mid-January

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said her agency will need to start taking "extraordinary measures," or special accounting maneuvers intended to prevent the nation from hitting the debt ceiling, as early as January 14, in a letter sent to congressional leaders Friday afternoon.

PolitiFact ripped for giving ‘Lie of the Year’ to Trump over ‘Biden is fine’ narrative

The White House repeatedly insisted that President Biden was in great shape and that he would not pardon his son Hunter, but none of that was enough to win PolitiFact's 2024 Lie of the Year nod.

Trump World turns on Musk, Ramaswamy over their use of special visas for foreign workers

President-elect Donald Trump's incoming government waste-cutters Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are catching heat from conservatives for the tech industry's use of foreign-born workers.

Leon Panetta suggests it’s ‘pretty clear’ Russia ‘responsible’ for Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash

Former Secretary of Defense and CIA director Leon Panetta speculated that Russian air defenses may have caused the crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane in Kazakhstan that killed 38 people and left all 29 survivors injured earlier this week. "When you look at all the preliminary evidence here, I don't think there's any question, but...

Yellen says extraordinary measures to avoid default will begin as soon as Jan. 14

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen suggested in a letter to Congress on Friday that the department doesn't think the U.S. will need to take "extraordinary measures" on Jan. 2 to avoid defaulting on its obligations, and instead expects that it will reach the new limit between Jan. 14 and 23. "Treasury currently expects to reach the...

Hochul ‘outraged’ over correctional officers’ killing of inmate

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul condemned the "senseless" assault of Robert Brooks, an inmate at the Marcy Correctional Facility, a state prison in Oneida County, which resulted in his death. “Like all New Yorkers, I was outraged and horrified after seeing footage of the senseless killing of Robert Brooks," Hochul said in a statement issued...

Lawmakers, former officials weigh in on TikTok ban as case heads to Supreme Court  

Top lawmakers, First Amendment advocacy groups and President-elect Trump weighed in Friday on a law that could ban TikTok in the U.S., as the Supreme Court prepares to take up the case.  The court agreed last week to hear TikTok’s challenge to the law, which requires its China-based parent company ByteDance to divest from the...

Musk and MAGA are fighting over H-1B visas. How do they work?

Tech mogul Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have faced backlash within President-elect Trump's base after the two signaled their support for the H-1B work visa, a key program to attract international talent that’s been criticized as too complicated and susceptible to abuse. The backlash heightened on the tech billionaire's social platform X within the last...

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