"The majority of U.S. adults (83%) agreed that the holidays are a time to forget our political differences. This remains true across the political spectrum; 82% of adults whose preferred candidate lost the election agreed, as did 84% of adults whose preferred candidate won," the American Psychological Association said in a new report released Tuesday.
President-elect Trump’s poaching of a number of high-profile Florida officials to serve in his second administration is creating openings for a new slate of leaders in the Sunshine State. Trump nomination of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R) will give Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) the opportunity to appoint a replacement who will serve until 2026. Meanwhile,...
Thousands of people in Southern California were under evacuation orders or warnings on Tuesday, as the Franklin Fire roared through the wealthy Malibu area and firefighters struggled to contain it. The fire scorched more than 2,700 acres and remained zero percent contained as of Tuesday afternoon. More than 18,000 people and some 8,100 homes and...
David Kaczynski, the brother of “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski, said he hopes his brother wasn’t a model for the suspect in the UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting. “I think we always have to remember that human motivation is extremely complicated,” Kaczynski said in a phone interview with NBC News. “Many factors go into a person’s motivation that they...
Rep. Michael Guest (R-Miss.), the chair of the House Ethics Committee, told The Hill on Tuesday that the panel met this week and does not have any more gatherings scheduled for the 118th Congress, signaling that it is done deliberating on its report into former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.). “We met earlier this week and...
President-elect Trump has tapped Andrew Ferguson, a commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), as the next head of the independent agency. Trump, in a statement Tuesday night, touted Ferguson's hard-line approach toward protecting free speech and what the president-elect described as Big Tech's "censorship" of certain views. "Andrew has a proven record of standing...
President-elect Trump on Tuesday announced his nomination of Rep. Dan Bishop (R-N.C.) to serve as deputy budget director at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Trump announced the news in a post on Truth Social on Tuesday evening, describing the North Carolina Republican as “a tireless fighter for our MAGA Movement in the House...
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) blocked a federal shield law that would protect journalists from revealing their sources and material to the government. In the Senate on Tuesday, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) asked for unanimous consent for the Senate to pass the Protect Reporters from Exploitative State Spying Act, known as the PRESS Act, and Cotton objected....
Pete Hegseth is looking to win over a pair of key Republican moderates as he tries to keep his hopes of leading the Defense Department from being derailed. The former Fox News host huddled with Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) on Tuesday and is set to do the same on Wednesday with Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine),...
The battle lines over the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, and the ethics of the health care industry, are receiving additional scrutiny from Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D), the most high-profile politician yet to weigh in on the matter. Shapiro, who had been under consideration to be Vice President Harris’s running mate in this...