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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Donald Trump's Cabinet secretaries can work together to end-run regulations that are strangling new technologies and hitting the brakes on development.
Who, me? Here are the year's most outrageous official attempts to evade responsibility, from a president with "diminished faculties" to a cop who claimed...