President-elect Trump has been named Time Magazine’s 2024 “Person of the Year.” The legacy news magazine announced the decision Thursday morning. Trump, 78, has plans to be in New York City early Thursday morning to ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. In a feature announcing the magazine’s honoree, Time noted that...
Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) weighed in on questions swirling around China's potential use of drones against the U.S., claiming the chance was "nontrivial." Krishnamoorthi, the top Democrat on the House select panel examining the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), joined NewsNation's "The Hill" Wednesday, looking into the uptick in recent drone sightings. Asked by host Blake...
Among Donald Trump’s many disconcerting campaign promises is a pledge to fire tens of thousands of federal employees and replace them with loyalists. Some people have dismissed some of his other threats as empty rhetoric that won’t materialize. But this one is real.
Chris Sununu, the Governor of New Hampshire, has urged Elon Musk to look to the states for inspiration in streamlining government, citing the success of states with balanced budgets and limited government as a blueprint for achieving what some say is impossible.
President Biden on Thursday announced pardons for 39 people and commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 others, setting a new daily record for clemency with a focus on those who were under home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic. The sweeping act of clemency came as Biden has been under pressure to pardon individuals after he...
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been dealt a severe blow with the destruction of Hamas and Hezbollah, but his nuclear weapons program is still active, and the Biden administration's decision to free up $10 billion for Iran through sanctions relief has only made the task of eliminating Tehran's nuclear threat even harder.
In today’s issue: FBI Director Christopher Wray, who began his tenure atop the bureau in 2017 as the choice of then-President Trump, does not want to become the third bureau director in history to be fired by a president. He said Wednesday that he will resign at the end of the current administration. The decision...
A shadowy super PAC that popped up just before the 2024 election was bankrolled by an opaque nonprofit, obscuring the ultimate source of the funds and raising “several red flags” for campaign finance experts. The super PAC, Save Western Culture, drew scrutiny ahead of the election as it spent nearly $1.4 million on controversial ads,...
The fate of President-elect Trump’s New York hush money case is now in the hands of Judge Juan Merchan, who oversaw the first historic conviction of the country’s former and now incoming president. At issue is whether the jury’s verdict of finding Trump guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records should stand in...