Sen. Josh Hawley is calling on the Senate Homeland Security Committee to subpoena public testimony from Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and FBI Director Christopher Wray.
“While the momentum was strong, it is clear that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction to the critical work of the Trump/Vance Transition," Gaetz said.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer plans to put Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in charge of a subcommittee that will work closely with President-elect Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency.
President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Linda McMahon, the co-chairwoman of his transition team, for education secretary. If the Senate confirms her, she could be one of the president-elect’s most important Cabinet appointments. McMahon’s resume is impressive. She worked in Trump’s first term as the administrator of the Small Business Administration, founded World Wrestling Entertainment with […]
Henry Gunther was killed at 10:59 a.m. on Nov. 11, 1918, the last fatality of World War I. The former bank clerk from Baltimore was charging a German machine-gun emplacement in eastern France, possibly because he wanted to redeem himself after being reduced in rank from sergeant to private. There had been heavy fighting throughout […]
The Department of Education announced on Thursday the 2025-2026 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) forms are officially available for all students and families, 10 days ahead of schedule following last year's chaotic rollout of the revamped forms. The department originally expected to launch the FAFSA forms on Dec. 1 after beta testing that started...
Ukrainians' approval of President Volodymyr Zelensky and their national government has dropped more than 15 percentage points since 2023, a new Gallup survey revealed. The drop marks the lowest support for Zelensky since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, though it's still higher than his approval ratings in 2020 and 2021, which sat at 41...
Russia’s third largest bank, Gazprombank, and its subsidiaries were hit with U.S. sanctions on Thursday, making it the largest bank not already targeted as the Russia-Ukraine war nears its three years mark. The new sanctions are part of the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control and is targeting more than 50 “internationally connected” Russian...