President-elect Donald Trump is expected to select Stephen Miller for White House deputy chief of staff for policy, according to reports.
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Trump’s Day One: A Look at His Opening Moves in the White House
President-elect Donald Trump made a multitude of “day one” promises throughout the campaign to begin work on an array of issues, setting himself up for an extremely busy first day back in office.
Read MoreFed Chairman Powell Says Won’t Step Down If Trump Asks Him to Leave
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says he won’t step down from his position if President-elect Donald Trump asks him to do so.
“No,” he said Thursday when asked about the matter during a news conference.
Read MoreTrump Attorney to New York AG: We’ll ‘Put Your Fat A– in Prison’ If Lawfare Against Trump Doesn’t End
President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney Mike Davis dared New York Attorney General Letitia James to continue her prosecution of Trump after his electoral victory.
“Let me just say this to Big Tish James, the New York Attorney General … I dare you to continue your lawfare against President Trump in his second term,” he said on “The Benny Show” podcast on Thursday.
Read MoreJudge Grants Special Counsel Move to Pause D.C. Case Against Trump
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan on Friday granted special counsel Jack Smith’s motion to vacate deadlines in his D.C. election case against President-elect Donald Trump.
Read MoreTrump: ‘No Price Tag’ for Mass Deportation Effort, ‘We Have No Choice’
Former President Trump says there is no price tag for his mass deportation effort, which he pledged to carry out during the presidential campaign.
“It’s not a question of a price tag. It’s not — really, we have no choice,” Trump said during an interview with NBC News.
Read MoreJustice Department Files Criminal Charges in Thwarted, Iran-Linked Murder-for-Hire Plot on Trump
The Justice Department filed criminal charges Friday on in a thwarted plot linked to Iran to kill then-GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump before Tuesday’s presidential election, which Trump won.
Read MoreJack Smith Signals End to J6 Prosecution Against Trump, Asks Judge for Month Delay
Special Prosecutor Jack Smith signaled Friday he may end his Jan. 6 election interference prosecution against Donald Trump, asking for a month delay in the case to consider options in the aftermath of the elections.
Read MoreTech Leaders of Amazon, Apple, Meta, Google Say They Look Forward to Working with Trump
Jeff Bezos, founder and chairman of Amazon, congratulated President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday for an “extraordinary political comeback and decisive victory” after he defeated Vice President Kamala Harris.
Read MoreTrump Announces Co-Campaign Chief Susie Wiles as His White House Chief of Staff
President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday announced his first staffing position for his second administration, placing his co-campaign manager Susie Wiles as his White House Chief of Staff.
Read MoreFrom Mnuchin to Musk: The Key Figures Who Could Shape a Second Trump Administration
Former President Donald Trump’s historic comeback marked the culmination of not just his own efforts, but those of his many surrogates and allies who will likely join him in the White House.
Read MoreKamala Harris Concedes the Election: ‘We Must Accept the Results’
Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday afternoon conceding defeat in the presidential election to now-President-elect Donald Trump, delivering remarks at Howard University.
Read MoreHarris Has Called Trump to Concede the Election: Report
Vice President Kamala Harris has called President-elect Donald Trump to concede the race for the White House, Fox News’s Peter Doocy reported.
Read MoreTrump’s Improbable Comeback Also Engineered a Significant Exodus from Democrat Party
Donald Trump pulled off the most improbable comeback in American political history Tuesday night, securing a likely return trip to the White House by beating back a relentless tide of media, Big Tech and Democrat opposition that stretched from the courthouse to the social media sphere.
Read MoreSecond Lawsuit Filed Against Elon Musk’s $1 Million Giveway
Registered voters who signed a Constitution-supporting petition by Elon Musk filed a class-action lawsuit Tuesday, claiming a giveaway for petition signers was fraud.
Read MoreTrump Outperforms 2020, But Most Swing States Remain Uncalled
Former President Donald Trump has outperformed his 2020 margins in every major swing state, though most of the key battlegrounds remained uncalled as of Wednesday morning.
Read MoreIconic Entrepreneur Bernie Marcus, Who co-founded Home Depot, Dies at Age 95
Bernard “Bernie” Marcus, who helped build The Home Depot into one of America’s most iconic brands before turning to philanthropy and conservative politics and unabashedly backing Donald Trump’s rise in politics, died Monday night at the age of 95.
Read More‘The End of the Narrative’: 2024 Could Be the Final Turning Point for Legacy Media, Pollsters Say
In the sultry days of summer 2020 as Donald Trump contemplated a second term, his aides engaged in a quiet conversation with members of the emerging digital media about an audacious idea.
Read MoreVirginia A.G. Miyares Concerned over Potential Foreign Money Seeping into U.S. Election via ActBlue
Virginia GOP Attorney General Jason Miyares said this week that he is worried about the potential influence of foreign money impacting U.S. elections through the Democratic online fund-raising platform ActBlue that he is investigating.
Read MoreGeorgia Supreme Court Rules County May Not Count Absentee Ballots Received After Election Day
The Georgia Supreme Court ruled Monday that Cobb County may not accept absentee ballots after Election Day.
Last Thursday, the Cobb County Board of Elections said that it had not sent out more than 3,000 absentee ballots in a timely manner and would mail them via express shipping or overnight delivery the next day, according to Democracy Docket. Three voters sued, arguing that there was not enough time to ensure the ballots would be received in time to be counted.
Read MorePennsylvania Becomes ‘Ground Zero’ for Presidential Election Winner amid Election Integrity Chaos
Pennsylvania has become “ground zero” for whoever will become the presidential election winner and election integrity chaos, as both nominees hyperfocus on the commonwealth. Unsurprisingly, lawsuits abound.
As former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris zoom in on Pennsylvania with Election Day just a day away, both political parties are also entrenched in lawfare regarding election procedures regarding mail-in ballots.
Read MoreMissouri Secretary of State Sues DOJ over Poll Monitors
Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft (R) sued the Department of Justice on Monday for trying to place poll monitors at polling locations in the state on Election Day. The DOJ announced on Friday that it was planning “to monitor compliance with federal voting rights laws in 86 jurisdictions in 27 states” for the general election. One of those jurisdictions is St. Louis.
Read MoreLegendary Music Producer Quincy Jones Dies at 91
Legendary music producer Quincy Jones died at 91 on Sunday evening, according to his publicist, Arnold Robinson.
Read MoreDOJ Invokes Civil War-Era Law in Warning Federal Agents Not to Respond to Polling Places with Guns
In recent days, federal law enforcement agents across the government received a jarring communication from the Justice Department: a warning they could be prosecuted under a Civil War-era law if they respond to an election polling place with guns, even for a fake report of a crime.
Read MoreACLU Sues Georgia County over Alleged Failure to Send Out Election Ballots in Timely Manner
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Southern Poverty Law Center sued a Georgia county on Friday, over allegations that it failed to send out approximately 3,000 absentee ballots by a requested deadline.
Read MoreTrump Sues CBS News Over Deceptive Edit of Harris ’60 Minutes’ Interview
Former President Donald Trump on Thursday sued CBS News for $10 billion, over its alleged doctoring of an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris on “60 Minutes.”
Read MoreFrom ‘Deplorables’ to ‘Nazis’ to ‘Garbage,’ Democrats Embrace Insults, Intolerance in the Trump Era
Since former President Donald Trump’s first presidential run in 2016, his opponents have thrown an endless series of derogatory terms toward him and supporters. But while some terms attracted scandal eight years ago and even energized the Trump base, the Democrats’ penchant for smearing MAGA supporters and other dissident groups has become a central part of their messaging as Trump appears poised to make a return to the White House.
Read MoreCongress to Subpoena ActBlue as Feds Confirm Suspicious Activity Tied to Democrat Fundraising
House investigators prepared Wednesday to subpoena the Democrat donations platform ActBlue in a rapidly expanding probe into possible illicit foreign funding in the 2024 election after the Treasury Department confirmed to Congress its money laundering detection system has generated hundreds of suspicious activity reports related to the online fund-raising giant.
The dramatic developments were communicated to House members and ActBlue itself in a series of memos this week obtained by Just the News that reaffirmed that lawmakers fear foreign adversaries like China, Iran, Venezuela and Russia may be routing illicit foreign money into Democratic coffers by using the names of unsuspecting American donors.
Read MoreAfter Leading Nation in EV Mandates, California Is Now Proposing an Electric Motorcycle Mandate
California made climate history in 2020 when the state became the first in the nation to create an electric vehicle mandate, which eventually became a key part of the Biden-Harris climate agenda. Now the state wants to do the same for motorcycles, despite the problems the EV push has faced over the past four years.
Read MoreStar of ‘Young Frankenstein’ and ‘Tootsie’ Teri Garr Dies at 79
The Oscar nominated comedic actor Teri Garr died on Tuesday in Los Angeles, at the age of 79, according to her publicist Heidi Schaeffer.
Read MoreWith Bannon’s Release from Prison, Trump Campaign Regains Key Voice on Election Eve
With the presidential election fast approaching, one of Donald Trump’s most supportive media personalities, Steve Bannon, is set to return to the fold as a wildcard in the final week of voting.
Read MoreConservative Podcaster, Former Trump Political Adviser Steve Bannon Released from Prison
Conservative podcaster and former Trump political adviser Steve Bannon was released from prison Tuesday morning.
Read MoreDutch Court Orders Gates to Face COVID Vax Victims; Jury Awards $1 Million Each to Fired Unvaxxed Workers
A year after promoting passports for the COVID-19 vaccines he helped fund as a way to reopen the global economy, philanthropist Bill Gates complained about their lackluster performance against infection and transmission starting with the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2. He even called Omicron “a type of vaccine” whose natural immunity could protect unvaccinated groups.
Read MoreNevada Supreme Court Rules Mail Ballots Received After Election Day Without Postmark Must Be Counted
The Nevada Supreme Court ruled on Monday that mail-in ballots received up to three days after Election Day without a postmark must be counted, rejecting a Republican challenge.
State law requiring mail-in ballots to be counted even with a postmark that “cannot be determined” applies to mail-in ballots that do not have postmarks at all, the state Supreme Court decided.
Read MoreTrump Advisers Propose Private Agency, Not FBI, Issue Security Clearances to Appointees: Report
A group of at least six advisers to Donald Trump are reportedly circulating a memo that proposes the GOP presidential nominee, if elected, be allowed to issue security clearances to his appointees without the normal FBI background-check process.
The advisers include Boris Epshteyn, a legal adviser to Trump who is involved in his 2024 campaign, sources told The New York Times, which reported the story on Sunday.
Read MoreWashington Post String of Exits over Refusal to Endorse a Presidential Candidate Continues
Two more members of the Washington Post’s editorial board resigned on Monday, after the paper declined to endorse a presidential candidate in the 2024 elections. Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos reportedly told his editorial board last week that the paper would not endorse a presidential candidate for next week’s election, or in future presidential elections, departing from recent elections when the board endorsed the Democratic candidates. One editor resigned over the order at the time.
Read MoreBallot Drop Boxes Set Afire in Oregon, Washington, Hundreds of Ballots Destroyed
Ballot drop boxes in both Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, were set on fire early Monday morning, destroying hundreds of ballots.
Read MoreBiden DOJ Fights Election Integrity Efforts with Lawsuits Across the Country Ahead of Election Day
The Biden administration’s Department of Justice is suing states and towns across the country in an effort to thwart election integrity measures ahead of the presidential election, resulting in pushback from election integrity advocates.
Read MoreTrump Packs Madison Square Garden in Blue State Push, Unveils New Family-Friendly Tax Break
Rising in the polls and exuding confidence, Republican Donald Trump filled New York City‘s iconic Madison Square Garden with cheering MAGA supporters Sunday night in an historic effort to compete in blue territories and sweep control of the White House and Congress just 10 days from now.
Read MoreChina Strategically Manipulating Strategic Mineral Markets and Disadvantaging the West, Expert Says
During a visit to Portugal, a senior U.S. official claimed that China is flooding the market in lithium as a “predatory” tactic to drive down global prices and beat back competition. If prices are low, the theory goes, it’s hard to attract investors and make mine development in the West economically attractive.
Reuters reported Jose Fernandez, undersecretary for economic growth, energy and the environment at the U.S. Department of State said at a briefing earlier this month that China was looking at the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act, which provides government funding for the development of critical minerals and domestic manufacturing, and responding to the competition it may create.
Read MoreColorado Election Officials Find at Least a Dozen Fraudulent Ballots Cast in 2024 Early Voting
Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold on Thursday announced that at least a dozen mail ballots have been stolen, filled out, and sent in so far in the 2024 general election.
The blue-leaning state has been sending mail-in ballots to every registered voter for years, and has served as an example for other liberal states during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to NBC News.
Read MoreOver 2,000 Noncitizens Found on Iowa Voting Records, Some Referred to AG for Potential Prosecution
A recent of 2.3 million Iowa voter records showed that thousands of self-identified noncitizens registered have to vote, resulting in potential prosecution.
Read MoreU.S. Investigating Chinese Hackers Targeting Trump and Vance Phones
The FBI and the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday announced an investigation into a Chinese cyber-espionage effort that reportedly includes hacking the phones of former President Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance.
Read MoreWashington Post Won’t Endorse Either Harris or Trump for President
The Washington Post newspaper will endorse a presidential candidate this year, the publisher announced Friday.
Read MoreEducation Secretary Censors Mom on X for Showing He Supports ‘Pornography in School’: Lawsuit
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona censored a Rhode Island mother who responded to his criticism of efforts to remove sexually graphic books from public school libraries by posting images from those books on his X account, a First Amendment lawsuit claims.
Read MoreNorth Carolina Government Estimates Hurricane Helene Caused at Least $53 Billion in Damage
The North Carolina government on Wednesday released an estimate that Hurricane Helene caused at least $53 billion in damage, particularly in the western part of the state.
The state budget office calculated the preliminary amount which also includes potential investments to avoid similar expensive damages during hurricanes in the future.
Read MoreTrump Requests Dismissal of January 6 Case over Jack Smith’s Appointment
Attorneys for former President Donald Trump on Thursday asked a judge to dismiss the January 6 case against him, arguing that special counsel Jack Smith was unconstitutionally appointed, according to The Hill.
Read MoreSpeaker Johnson Shares Website to Check for Fraudulent Donations amid ActBlue Scrutiny
House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday shared a website, dubbed “checkmydonation.com” on which Americans can check whether their name has been used for any political donations without their permission amid scrutiny of the Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue.
Read MoreTrump Open to Reparations Fund for Victims of Crimes Committed by Illegals
Gaining momentum two weeks from Election Day, Donald Trump is laser focused on voters’ top priority of making America safe and affordable again. But after spending hours comforting families victimized by murder, rape and other border crimes, the former president told Just the News he also is open to creating a federal compensation fund for Americans harmed by illegal immigrants let into the country under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
The idea of a border crimes reparations fund like the one created for the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks has been floating around conservative circles for months, including in Congress where Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., even introduced the concept before it stalled.
Read MoreNearly 11 Million Illegal Immigrant Encounters Have Occurred Since Biden-Harris Took Office: GOP
Nearly 11 million illegal immigrant encounters have occurred nationwide since Biden-Harris took office, according to GOP lawmakers who cited the latest data from Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
In September, there were 101,790 illegal crossings at the southern border, including migrants who made asylum appointments at ports of entry through the CBP One app.
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