15.11.2024 — The Day Cabinet Picks Met Congress

Matt Gaetz's Personality Irked His GOP Colleagues. There Are Better Reasons To Oppose His Nomination.

Conservative talk show host Dennis Prager, the founder of PragerU, will be taking a leave of absence from his widely syndicated radio program following a fall that resulted in a severe back injury, requiring hospitalization.

Environmental lawyer and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vowed to be an “honest public servant” if he gets confirmed as the head of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). “Together we will clean up corruption, stop the revolving door between industry and government, and return our health agencies to their rich tradition...

New Yorkers aren’t letting Whoopi Goldberg’s sourpuss spoil their favorite spot for sweet treats.

House Republicans will have a small margin in the chamber next year. Speaker Mike Johnson has warned Trump, who is still pulling from the GOP's ranks.

After official weigh-ins Thursday night at the Toyota Music Factory, Tyson slapped Paul during their final face-off before they meet in the ring Friday night.

President-elect Donald Trump repeatedly promised to investigate, prosecute, imprison or otherwise punish his perceived enemies during his campaign. Now, some of his targets are preparing.

Addressing the Federalist Society’s annual dinner on Thursday, Justice Neil Gorsuch sought to use a recent example to prove his point that government overreach has swept up ordinary Americans in the law. “I’ve just seen too many cases like that. You have just the other day, some of you might have seen one in the...

A former Detroit Lions linebacker was arrested and charged with allegedly assaulting law enforcement and other offenses over the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). Leander Antwione Williams, 31, of Savannah, Ga., was charged with a felony offense of resisting, assaulting and impending law police officers, according to the...

Known as ‘coyotes’ or ‘polleros,’ human smugglers anticipate U.S. border policy changes and adapt to new illegal migration dynamics.

Right-wing Israelis have embraced fresh Trump appointees like Mike Huckabee and Elise Stefanik, foreshadowing a closer U.S.-Israeli relationship.

Pentagon received hundreds of reports of new UFO sightings

The WHO and CDC say there were about 10.3 million cases of measles last year, up 20 percent from 2022. Children are especially susceptible to complications.

Stallone described Trump as “mythical character” as he was “awed” by the former and next president’s historic election night victory.

The written communication last month came after the Biden administration warned Tehran against attempts on Trump’s life.

The Treaty Principles Bill seeks to revise New Zealand’s foundational agreement with Maori people and is hugely unpopular, with even the prime minister deriding it.

President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to impose new tariffs on China, but Beijing is wiser and better prepared to push back this time around, analysts say.

Improving the regime’s limited drone capabilities has been high on Kim Jong Un’s weapons wishlist.

Tulsi Gabbard’s expressed support for national security leakers and her elevation of Russian-backed narratives are coming under renewed scrutiny after President-elect Trump nominated her to the highest intelligence post in the country. If confirmed as director of national intelligence (DNI), Gabbard would be responsible for wrangling the information collected across all 18 intelligence agencies. The...

With Republicans securing control of the House, Senate and White House in the election, they are poised to claw back major legislation Democrats have passed to fight climate change. Chief in the GOP's crosshairs are provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act — a massive climate, tax and health care package that contains hundreds of billions of dollars worth of tax credits...

President-elect Donald Trump's choice for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, was investigated for alleged sexual assault in 2017, officials in Monterey, Calif. confirm.

‘Possibility of a catastrophic failure’: Inside the space station leak problem that has NASA worried

The selection of Fox News host Pete Hegseth to lead the Trump Defense Department has renewed scrutiny of his political and religious views and his aggressive criticism of the military he would be leading.

“I apologize to younger voters that my Gen X is full of f–king fascists.”

The vaccine skeptic is President-elect Donald Trump's pick to serve as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.

How entertaining it will be in coming months to watch Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy take a hatchet to our bloated, inefficient federal government — but shrinking our government and cutting unnecessary regulations is also deadly serious.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has filed to run for reelection in 2026 even as she is reportedly doing “terrible” after President-elect Donald Trump’s massive victory and Republicans taking the Senate and retaining the House majority.

DOGE's Chances Are Slim, but It Might Be Our Only Hope

House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said Thursday that the former Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-Fla.) House Ethics Commitee report “shouldn’t go public," amid pressure to release it after he was tapped for a potential Trump administration role. “Well, it’s my understanding that it’s not supposed to go public. So, if it’s not supposed to...

Browsing real estate listings is enough to make you wish you invented a time machine so you could have bought a house a generation ago. This article may also have that effect.

A neutral Ukraine would contribute to regional stability, reduce military and economic strains on the West, and allow all parties to pivot toward peace.

Democrats had a billion dollars to pull off a Kamala Harris victory. They hurled much of that money at celebrities and designing lavish environments to say the word “joy” in. It was one big A-list party, and Americans didn’t feel invited.

Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-Wash.) spoke out on President-elect Trump’s recent decision to tap environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), calling the former presidential candidate a “fringe conspiracy theorist.”   Murray released a statement Friday morning in response to the appointment, citing Kennedy's history as an anti-vaccine advocate...

Among the most enthusiastic Trump supporters today are the members of the entrepreneurial middle and lower-middle classes.

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Andrew Selee of the Migration Policy Institute tells NPR that President-elect Donald Trump could begin his focus on newer arrivals and other immigrants on shaky legal grounds.

The city of Palm Springs, Calif., will pay nearly $6 million in reparations to Black and Brown families who were displaced from a neighborhood there during the 1960s.  The tentative settlement will be split among families who had lived in the neighborhood known as Section 14. In the 1960s, the city demolished the neighborhood for...

Right-wing Israelis have embraced fresh Trump appointees like Mike Huckabee and Elise Stefanik, foreshadowing a closer U.S.-Israeli relationship.

Actor Sylvester Stallone celebrated President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in a speech at Mar-a-Lago, referring to him as “the second George Washington.”

Israel is sending troops into villages farther from its border, in what some former senior security officials worry could turn into a war of attrition.

Mountain lions in the greater Los Angeles region are consciously shifting their activity to avoid interacting with human residents, a new study has found. Big cats living in areas with higher levels of human recreation may be more nocturnal than those inhabiting more remote areas, where felines tend to be active at dawn and dusk,...

The Palm Springs City Council has approved a $5.9-million settlement with Black and Latino families whose homes were torn down decades ago.

Pundit George Conway, an outspoken Republican critic of President-elect Trump, said the recent Cabinet picks are "truly as bad as you can imagine." He singled out the nominations of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary, Tulsi Gabbard as national intelligence director and former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) as U.S. attorney general....

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Defense Minister Israel Katz gave the go-ahead for 7,000 draft notices to be sent to ultra-Orthodox Jews, for enlistment in the Israel Defense Forces.

Prosecutors claim Jose Ibarra, 26, attacked the Augusta University nursing student, hitting her head and asphyxiating her with the plan to sexually assault her.

‘Possibility of a catastrophic failure’: Space station leak has NASA worried

Kathleen Sebelius, a former Democratic governor who served as Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary during the Obama administration, said that having anti-vaccine activist and environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. leading HHS is "very frightening" for Americans. "To have someone coming into a scientific agency that is a vaccine skeptic and may well undo decades of...

Kennedy has been most vocal about the FDA, an agency that oversees nearly $3 trillion in medicines, food and tobacco products.

General Motors laid off almost 1,000 employees on Friday as the automaker attempts to cut costs and realign priorities amid changing market conditions.

Vladimir Putin aims to keep Moldova and Georgia under his thumb — and the electoral results from both countries suggest his strategy is working.

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Brendan Carr on Friday called on big tech platforms to dismantle the “censorship cartel,” charging that American democracy depends on it. Carr states that the tech Masters of the Universe, in conjunction with “the orwellian-named NewsGuard,” fact checking groups, and ad agencies, have enforced “one-sided narratives.”

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Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Brendan Carr on Friday called on big tech platforms to dismantle the “censorship cartel,” charging that American democracy depends on it. Carr states that the tech Masters of the Universe, in conjunction with “the orwellian-named NewsGuard,” fact checking groups, and ad agencies, have enforced “one-sided narratives.”

Nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults are considered overweight or obese, according to new research published Thursday from The Lancet. The research points to a substantial increase in overweight and obese adults in the last 30 years as well as an especially large increase in adolescents aged 5-24, with forecasts showing little room for improvement...

Shares in several pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies have fallen since President-elect Trump announced Thursday that he had tapped vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The SPDR S&P Biotech ETF, which tracks the biotech sector, has dropped 3.7 percent as of noon. Shares in major pharmaceutical...

The tools you cook with may be introducing an unwanted ingredient into your family dinner: flame retardant.

Scientists welcome a renewed focus on worrisome trends in child health. But vaccines and fluoride, targets of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., are not the cause.

As the current cease-fire agreement is being negotiated, its content needs to express an understanding of the complex situation of Lebanon as a country and apply strategic rehabilitation mechanisms accordingly.

Incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune has assured the public that “all the options” are on the table to get President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet picks through the confirmation process amid concerns that some appointees might not receive enough votes.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s selection for the nation's top health post sent shock waves through the public health world.

Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown (D), who was recently unseated by Republican businessman Bernie Moreno, seems open to a bid for the rest of the term of Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), who will be stepping down to serve as vice president following last week's elections. “I’m not ruling anything out," Brown told Politico when asked if...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Friday called on Senate Republicans to act as a check on the incoming Trump administration — a response to a handful of controversial Cabinet nominations announced by the former president this week. Jeffries declined to weigh in specifically on Trump’s list of picks, which includes two of Jeffries...

This is the story of her 150-million-year journey from the Jurassic to Los Angeles’ Exposition Park.

Exit polls suggest inflation loomed large in Donald Trump's triumph in the Nov. 5 election, with more than two-thirds of voters believing the economy was in bad shape.

This is the story of her 150-million-year journey from the Jurassic to Los Angeles’ Exposition Park.

Actor Sylvester Stallone introduced 47th President-elect Donald Trump at the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) Gala on Thursday, in addition to giving a brief speech where he referred to Trump as the “second George Washington.”

Exit polls suggest inflation loomed large in Donald Trump's triumph in the Nov. 5 election, with more than two-thirds of voters believing the economy was in bad shape.

The government is trying to starve more than 1,000 informal prospectors out of a shaft of the Buffelsfontein mine, which police say extends some 8,000 feet below ground.

A series of scary text messages has heightened concerns for a Hawaii woman who vanished while on her way to a “bucket list” vacation in New York City. Hannah Kobayashi, 31, was supposedly…

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) said that former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, President-elect Trump's pick for national intelligence director, is "likely a Russian asset." "There's no question I consider her someone who is likely a Russian asset," Wasserman Schultz said on MSNBC on Friday. The Hill has contacted Gabbard's press team for comment. Wasserman Schultz's comment...

RFK Jr. wants to tackle chronic disease. Despite controversial views on vaccines, his focus on healthy food and taking on special interests may find broad support — and face political headwinds.

A series of scary text messages has heightened concerns for a Hawaii woman who vanished while on her way to a “bucket list” vacation in New York City. Hannah Kobayashi, 31, was supposedly…

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm warned Friday that President-elect Trump’s reported plans to cut consumer subsidies for electric vehicles would benefit China. “You eliminate these credits, and what do you do? You end up ceding the territory to other countries, particularly China,” Granholm told reporters at the COP29 global climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan. “If we...

Bucks County Commissioners openly defied the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Thursday by moving to count provisional ballots that are missing a signature.

Some warn that Mike Tyson is at a higher risk of injury - or worse - because his age has affected his ability to react quickly to punches.

Exit polls suggest inflation loomed large in Donald Trump's triumph in the Nov. 5 election, with more than two-thirds of voters believing the economy was in bad shape.

The Biden administration had warned the U.S. would consider any Iranian attempt on President-elect Trump’s life to be “an act of war,” officials said.

Olson played a pivotal role in striking down affirmative action and securing George W. Bush’s 2000 victory, but called fighting for same-sex marriage ‘the highlight of my life.’

Sarah Matthews, a former spokesperson for President-elect Trump, said his recent Cabinet picks stem from him being “drunk on power.”  In an MSNBC appearance Friday afternoon, Matthews said that the narrative of Trump playing “4D chess” by making distracting nominations is “hilarious.” “That's not what's happening. He knows that he is drunk on power right now...

Speaker Johnson said he will request the House Ethics Committee not release its report on the conduct of former Rep. Matt Gaetz, Trump's AG nominee.

A pair of Democratic senators called for a federal investigation into Elon Musk’s involvement in SpaceX’s federal contracts following reports the tech billionaire has been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin. In a letter sent Friday, Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Jack Reed (D-R.I.) and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) said Musk’s reported relations...

The Biden administration had warned the U.S. would consider any Iranian attempt on President-elect Trump’s life to be “an act of war,” officials said.

Donald Trump says the North Korean leader ‘misses him.’ But Kim Jong Un has a new ally now in Russia’s Vladimir Putin, and that’s emboldening him like never before.

The Biden administration had warned the U.S. would consider any Iranian attempt on President-elect Trump’s life to be “an act of war,” officials said.

Trump’s Cabinet Picks Unlikely To Avoid Senate Scrutiny

Senators have sought to see the inquiry into President-elect Trump’s attorney general pick. Speaker Mike Johnson said releasing the report would breach protocol.

The Biden administration had warned the U.S. would consider any Iranian attempt on President-elect Trump’s life to be “an act of war,” officials said.

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Pete Hegseth, the Army National Guard veteran and Fox News host nominated by Donald Trump to lead the Department of Defense, was flagged as a possible “Insider Threat” by a fellow service member due to a tattoo that’s associated with white supremacist groups.

Hit with sales dips as large as 46%, some of the region’s farmers markets are struggling — and two could close. A new fundraiser aims to help keep them afloat.

President-elect Donald Trump’s so-called Trump Romp to the iconic “YMCA” tune is the latest Trump-inspired phenomenon in pop culture.

Exit polls suggest inflation loomed large in Donald Trump's triumph in the Nov. 5 election, with more than two-thirds of voters believing the economy was in bad shape.

The National Debt Just Hit $36 Trillion. Does Trump Have a Plan To Control It?