President Biden on Wednesday announced he will nominate former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) to be commissioner of the Social Security Administration. O’Malley, who was governor from 2007 to 2015, ran for the Democratic nomination for president in 2016. He had also served as mayor of Baltimore and was first elected in 1999. “Since Day...

Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin has been tapped by President Biden to be the top ranking officer in the service amid the holdup on military promotions in the Senate. Biden’s nomination of Allvin to be Air Force chief of staff was submitted to the Senate on Tuesday, according to a notice from the chamber....

Unmarried different-sex couples, interracial couples and others could find themselves the targets of discriminatory treatment as well.

A campaign watchdog group is alleging a $500,000 donation to a super PAC backing Miami Mayor Francis Suarez’s (R) 2024 presidential bid may have violated campaign finance laws. The Campaign Legal Center said in a complaint filed this week with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) that PassionForest, “an obscure, eleven-month-old company whose only known activity...

A jury in London acquitted actor Kevin Spacey on charges of sexual assault Wednesday, his latest court victory after a series of men have accused him of misconduct. During Spacey’s trial, which took four weeks, he had argued he was a “big flirt” but did not assault anyone. Accusations in the trial included three men...

Tech companies leading in the artificial intelligence (AI) industry are creating a joint forum aimed at ensuring safe and responsible development of AI models, the companies announced Wednesday. The Frontier Model Forum, led by Microsoft, Google, ChatGPT creator OpenAI and AI research company Anthropic, comes as lawmakers in the U.S. and globally are racing to...

Hunter Biden pleaded guilty to misdemeanor tax charges Wednesday morning during his first court appearance stemming from the years-long federal investigation into his tax affairs.

Senate Republicans have drafted an amendment to the defense bill to establish a dedicated office solely for auditing U.S. aid to Ukraine.

The State Department is to brief the House Foreign Affairs Committee behind closed doors on the probe into Iran envoy Rob Malley's security clearance.

An MNSBC guest floated the idea of the government implementing a Patriot Act-style response to right wing extremists and possibly the creation of a new government agency.