Scott Bessent, President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the Treasury Department, said Tuesday that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell can serve out the remainder of his term leading the central bank. “As the President said on Sunday, and I’m in complete agreement with him, that Jay Powell will serve out his term,” Bessent told CNBC. His...
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) called for President-elect Trump to be pardoned in his New York hush money case in the senator's first Truth Social post, which went up Tuesday. “The Trump hush money and Hunter Biden cases were both bull----, and pardons are appropriate,” Fetterman said in his post. “Weaponizing the judiciary for blatant, partisan...
President Biden has the opportunity to improve his judicial legacy by signing the bipartisan JUDGES Act into law, which would ensure that all Americans have timely access to federal district courts.
President Biden released a statement mourning Nikki Giovanni, calling her a “pioneering” poet who "used her pen to advance racial and gender equality and confront violence, hate and injustice." Giovanni died Monday in Blacksburg, Virginia at the age of 81. Her wife, Virginia C. Fowler, said she died in a hospital due to complications of...
New York Police Department (NYPD) Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, may have filed an insurance claim for back pain last year. “He was posting an X-ray on his social media. Some of the writings that he had, he was discussing the difficulty...
Sen.-elect Jim Banks (R-Ind.) advocated for government reforms favoring working-class Americans in a Wednesday policy document outlining his approach to improving the country’s economy and global standing. “Nobody has suffered more because of bad trade and economic policymaking than America’s working and middle classes,” Banks, who is finishing his fourth term in the House, wrote...
A California child with a suspected bird flu infection drank raw milk before getting sick, local health officials said. A Marin County child last month presented to a local emergency department with fever and vomiting after drinking raw milk, officials said. The child tested positive for Influenza A, a category that includes both seasonal flu...
John Bolton, President-elect Trump’s former national security adviser, is warning that Republican senators will be judged harshly by history if they confirm Kash Patel as the next FBI director. Patel, who has called for shuttering the FBI’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., and firing its top ranks, is picking up a lot of early Senate Republican...
Apple began integrating OpenAI's ChatGPT onto its devices in a long-awaited software rollout on Wednesday. ChatGPT — OpenAI's popular generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot — will be available for Apple's Siri voice assistant and the new Writing Tools feature found on iPhones, iPads and Mac computers, the tech giant announced Wednesday. When a user with...