The first in what will be another four years of frantic Democratic freak-outs over the things President-elect Donald Trump will say or do is upon us, with Democrats ratcheting up the fear that Trump’s FBI will be politically corrupted and not “independent.” It is a wonderful sentiment, but if recent history is any indication, that […]
The father of Jordan Neely, the man who died after a Marine veteran on a New York City subway car put him in a chokehold, has announced a lawsuit against the man facing charges of manslaughter in his son's death. Andre Zachary, Neely’s father, filed the suit Wednesday against Daniel Penny in New York Supreme...
A tsunami warning was issued Thursday for the coast of Oregon and Northern California, according to the National Weather Service's (NWS) tsunami tracking site. The weather service issued an update around 2:30 p.m. EST saying the tsunami threat had passed, less than an hour after the earthquake hit. The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake...
President-elect Trump has been urged to reconsider his opposition to the PRESS Act, a bipartisan bill to protect journalists' sources, as journalist Catherine Herridge's case threatens to undermine journalist-source confidentiality.
A federal judge on Thursday rejected a proposed plea deal that would have allowed Boeing to plead guilty and pay a fine for two fatal 737 Max crashes, thrusting the airline giant back into uncertain legal territory. Judge Reed O'Connor of the Northern District of Texas specifically rejected provisions of the proposed agreement that would...
It has been a busy Thursday on Capitol Hill, with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy meeting with House and Senate Republicans about their Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) as the saga of the House Ethics Committee’s investigation into former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) reaches its final act. This morning, the House task force investigating the...
Sen. Laphonza Butler (D-Calif.) suggested that Democrats will need to start listening to voices "outside of Washington, D.C.," as the party reels from its losses in the 2024 election. "It’s going to have to start with a whole lot of authentic listening outside of Washington, D.C.," Butler, who took over the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein's (D-Calif.)...
The Senate is set to spend more time in Washington next year as Republicans look to expeditiously usher President-elect Trump's agenda through Congress. According to the 2025 Senate calendar, the chamber is slated to be in session for 10 straight weeks to open the 119th Congress and not have its first recess until March. The...
Speaker Mike Johnson is holding a press conference ahead of GOP lawmakers' high-stakes meeting with Tesla CEO Elon Musk and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who were tapped by President-elect Trump to head the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). DOGE is tasked with working outside government to "dismantle" bureaucracy, slash "excess" regulations, cut wasteful spending...