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Former Senate counsels: FBI vetting of Trump Cabinet picks is ‘a must’

Two former Senate counsels agreed in a New York Times op-ed published Friday that President-elect Trump's nominations for his Cabinet need to undergo FBI checks. Some advisers to the president-elect have suggested taking the job of conducting background checks for high-level nominees away from the FBI and give it to private investigators, but other Republicans...

Popular gun manufacturer thanks Elon Musk after being suspended by Facebook

After its Facebook account was suspended, Smith & Wesson thanked Elon Musk and X for supporting free speech amid what it called ongoing attacks against the First and Second Amendments.

Dem leader condemns Thanksgiving bomb threats against liberal lawmakers after Team Trump targeted

Connecticut's entire congressional delegation was targeted by violent threats, leading House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., to speak out, following Trump nominees facing threats earlier this week.

EV industry hard-pressed to find GOP allies in Congress to save tax credits

House Republicans with electric vehicle manufacturing or battery production in their states still welcome President-elect Donald Trump's plan to nix a $7,500 tax credit for buying EVs.

Republicans ready to claw back troves of Biden regulations when they take power in Washington

House and Senate Republicans are readying the seldom-used Congressional Review Act to repeal perhaps dozens of regulations implemented by President Biden in the waning days of his administration.

Putin warns Trump ‘is not safe now,’ knocks the president-elect’s political opponents

Russian President Vladimir Putin does not think U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is safe.

Ireland votes in a close-run election where incumbents hope to cling on to power

Ireland is voting Friday in a parliamentary election that will decide the next government -- and will show whether Ireland bucks the global trend of incumbents being ousted by disgruntled voters after years of pandemic, international instability and a cost-of-living pressures.

What’s up with Kamala Harris?

WHAT’S UP WITH KAMALA HARRIS? When Al Gore lost the presidential race in 2000, he grew a beard, disappeared for a while, and got weirder than ever. After John McCain lost in 2008, he often said he slept like a baby — “sleep for two hours, wake up and cry, sleep for two hours, wake up […]

Auto industry may lose 17 percent of profits due to Trump’s tariff plan: Report

Carmakers in the U.S. and Europe could lose up to 17 percent of their combined annual core profits in a worst-case scenario if the U.S. imposes steep tariffs on Europe, and two key U.S. allies, Mexico and Canada, a report from S&P Global released Friday showed. The report comes as President-elect Trump has threatened to...

Top Canadian news outlets sue OpenAI over copyright infringement

Five leading Canadian news outlets filed a suit against OpenAI on Friday, alleging the ChatGPT owner of violating copyright laws to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models. The outlets' lawsuit, filed in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice against OpenAI, is the latest in a series of legal challenges against the AI developer over its...

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