Enough House Republicans are drawing red lines in pursuit of steeper state and local tax deductions and deep spending cuts to throw a wrench in passing President-elect Donald Trump's agenda.
New York election officials are being urged to investigate whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr. committed voter fraud by casting his November ballot from a discredited address, as the former independent presidential candidate seeks Senate confirmation for a top public health role in the Trump administration.
Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman will become the chamber's first Democrat to meet with President-elect Donald Trump since the election and plans to travel to Trump's private Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
As the Biden administration finishes its last days, one unfortunate truth revealed during the term was the magnitude of government censorship, particularly on the internet. The matter first came to light during the COVID pandemic, in which Big Tech suppressed viewpoints on social media platforms that they considered incorrect. Later, the “Twitter Files” would provide […]
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, called on Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito to recuse himself from President-elect Trump’s hush money criminal case in a statement on Thursday. Raskin, in making his case, pointed to reporting that Alito and Trump spoke by phone “just hours” before Trump’s legal team asked the...
A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected a bid from President-elect Trump’s two co-defendants in the Mar-a-Lago documents case to block the release of special counsel Jack Smith’s final report. The court’s swift decision comes after the Trump team late Monday asked two different courts to bar the release of Smith’s report, set to cover...
An appeals court on Thursday temporarily blocked a plea deal for three accused 9/11 plotters in a win for the Justice Department and Pentagon, which had requested this week that the court block the agreements ahead of a Friday hearing. Judges on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in a brief order granted the request...
Vice President Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff announced their decision to cancel their upcoming international trips on Thursday in the wake of the Los Angeles wildfires. “In response to the historic wildfires in Los Angeles, the Vice President has made the decision to cancel her and the Second Gentleman’s upcoming trip to Singapore, Bahrain,...
Vice President-elect JD Vance (R-Ohio) announced on Thursday he will resign from his seat in the Senate, effective at the start of Friday. Vance sent his resignation letter on Thursday to Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) as he readies for the next four years in the White House. "As I prepare to assume my duties...
The Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision on Thursday refused President-elect Trump’s request to halt his criminal sentencing, now just hours away, closing off Trump’s last remaining pathway to avoid receiving his punishment for his 34-count felony conviction in New York. On Friday morning, Trump’s hush money sentencing will secure his status as the first...