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CNN The Senate voted on Monday to confirm Marco Rubio as President Donald Trump’s secretary of state, the first high-level Cabinet official for the new administration to be approved by the chamber. The confirmation vote took place just hours after Trump was sworn in as president. The overwhelmingly bipartisan…
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Washington Examiner As one of his first acts, President Donald Trump appointed 31 people to lead various government agencies on an acting basis while his Cabinet nominees move through the Senate confirmation process. The list of people Trump approved on Monday after he was sworn in will carry out the first acts of Trump’s second…
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The Hill A portrait of retired Gen. Mark Milley, the former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who has feuded in highly public spats with President Trump, was taken down in the Pentagon on Monday. A spokesperson for the Pentagon confirmed the portrait was taken down but deferred comment to…
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Breitbart The Christian aid organization Open Doors published its annual World Watch List – a ranking of the most dangerous places in the world to practice the Christian faith – on Wednesday, which found that 380 million Christians around the world face severe persecution. Christian persecution – which Open Doors defines…
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Washington Examiner President-elect Donald Trump is quietly pushing entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy to fill the Senate seat vacated by Vice President-elect J.D. Vance, three sources familiar with the matter confirmed to the Washington Examiner. Ramaswamy previously took himself out of the running for the position last year after Trump and Vance won the November election,…
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CBS News The Transportation Department is stepping up enforcement of persistent flight delays with a lawsuit against Southwest Airlines and a fine against Frontier Airlines. The agency said the U.S. District Court lawsuit it filed in California on Wednesday alleges that Southwest illegally operated chronically delayed flights and disrupted…
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Just the News Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe faces a confirmation hearing to lead the CIA. READ MORE
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Washington Examiner President Joe Biden announced possibly his final round of student loan debt relief Monday, bringing the total student loan forgiveness extended over the past four years to more than $183 billion for five million federal student loan borrowers. Biden announced Monday morning that the latest round of forgiveness will…
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Axios The CEO of steelmaker Cleveland-Cliffs reiterated he still wants to acquire rival U.S. Steel, in a news conference filled with intense and vehemently anti-Japan rhetoric. Why it matters: This is the buyer that the United Steelworkers union wants, but it presents major antitrust challenges. Catch up quick: Cleveland-Cliffs offered to…
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Breitbart Five hundred Navy SEALs, veterans, and other supporters are planning to march in support of Defense Secretary Nominee Pete Hegseth as he appears before senators for his confirmation hearing on Tuesday. That morning, his supporters will meet at the Vietnam Memorial Wall at 9 a.m. EST and march…
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Axios Senate Democrats are forcing a delay in Tulsi Gabbard’s confirmation hearing next week, claiming she hasn’t provided required vetting materials — while Republicans accuse them of playing games, Axios has learned. It’s the first taste of what’s expected to be a drama-filled few weeks as the Senate takes up some…
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CBS News Two private equity firms’ efforts to wring profits out of hospitals in underserved communities put patients in danger, according to a new report released Tuesday by a powerful Senate committee. The 162-page report by the Senate Budget Committee comes as Americans continue to express outrage over the role of…
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Washington Examiner President-elect Donald Trump is prepared to use the U.S. military to reclaim the Panama Canal and take Greenland. Trump, who vowed to take back the Panama Canal and gain control of Greenland, was asked by a reporter Tuesday if he can assure the public that he will not use military force…
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NBC Montana Mexico is developing a cell phone app that will allow its citizens in the U.S. to alert family members if they are at risk of being detained, a senior official announced Friday. The app, which will be officially launched in January, will allow migrants to notify both…
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Axios A U.S. appeals court on Monday upheld the verdict against President-elect Trump in the civil suit for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll. The ruling means Trump must pay Carroll $5 million in compensatory and punitive damages for his alleged defamatory statements after she accused him of sexually assaulting her in…
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Washington Examiner President-elect Donald Trump promised to pursue the death penalty against “violent rapists, murderers, and monsters” once he takes control of the White House. Trump’s vow came hours after President Joe Biden‘s controversial decision to commute the sentences of 37 federal death row prisoners, which the president-elect’s team previously called a “slap in the face to the…
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Axios The Biden administration on Monday withdrew its proposed plans to reverse a Trump-era policy that made it easier for employers to refuse to offer birth control coverage in company-sponsored health plans. With Democrats’ loss of the White House and Congress in the 2024 elections, Republicans are in a strong position to undermine…
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CNN Former President Bill Clinton was discharged from a hospital on Tuesday one day after being admitted for the flu, his office said. “President Clinton was discharged earlier today after being treated for the flu. He and his family are deeply grateful for the exceptional care provided by the team…
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Former President Bill Clinton was admitted Monday to the Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C., for flu-like symptoms, his deputy chief of staff told CNN.
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Breitbart House Speaker Mike Johnson is reportedly not in good graces with President-elect Donald Trump. Johnson needs Trump’s support to keep the gavel on January 3, the day House Republicans will have an option to renew or cancel his speakership. Johnson appears on the outs with Trump due to…
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The Hill Texas, Florida, Arizona and Idaho are likely to gain House seats after the 2030 census, according to consulting firm Election Data Services. A gain of two congressional seats would be seen in Texas and Florida, and one seat each in Arizona and Idaho, if congressional reapportionment were being…
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Reuters Starbucks, opens new tab workers have expanded their strike to four more U.S. cities, including New York, the union representing over 10,000 baristas said late on Saturday. The five-day strike, which began on Friday and initially closed Starbucks cafes in Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle, has added locations…
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The Hill The House approved legislation to avert a government shutdown hours before the deadline Friday, sending the bill to the Senate for consideration after a whirlwind week on Capitol Hill. The chamber voted 366-34-1 in support of the legislation, clearing the two-thirds threshold needed for passage since GOP leadership…
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The Daily Mail UK This is the moment a Saudi doctor who drove through a massive crowd at a German Christmas market, killing at least two and injuring nearly 70 people, was arrested. The driver of the car, reported to be a dark BMW, was arrested following the crash which took place…
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The Hill TikTok filed an emergency appeal at the Supreme Court on Monday seeking to delay a law that would ban the video-sharing platform nationwide if TikTok doesn’t divest from its Chinese parent company. The company’s application asks the court to put the Jan. 19 divest-or-ban deadline on hold until the…
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Axios A new report out from the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), led by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), accuses Amazon of manipulating data on worker injuries and ignoring safety concerns. The online retail giant has faced intense scrutiny in recent years over allegations of unsafe or grueling work conditions. Amazon…
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Breitbart President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly considering privatizing the United States Postal Service (USPS), according to a report from the Washington Post. Three people with knowledge of the matter told the outlet that Trump had been talking with Howard Lutnick, who Trump picked to serve as the Commerce Secretary, about carrying out…
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Fox News ABC News and their top anchor George Stephanopoulos have reached a settlement with Donald Trump in his defamation suit, which will result in the news network paying the president-elect $15 million. The settlement was publicly filed on Saturday, revealing that the two parties have come to an agreement…
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Axios House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi sustained an unspecified injury and was hospitalized during a congressional visit to Luxembourg, her office said Friday. The 84-year-old former speaker is cancelling the rest of her CODEL engagements but “continues to work,” spokesperson Ian Krager said in a statement. Pelosi sustained the injury from…
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Washington Examiner Popular support for President-elect Donald Trump has never been higher, according to a polling group that awarded him a net positive personal rating for the first time. RealClearPolling gave Trump a net approval score of plus-2 percentage points as of Dec. 11, a steep increase from the president-elect’s negative 12.8 rating at…
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Fox News A Florida woman is behind bars after she allegedly threatened a Blue Cross Blue Shield agent during a phone call about a recently denied insurance claim. Polk County jail records show Briana Boston, 42, was charged with threats to conduct a mass shooting or an act of…
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GOV.UK Existing emergency measures banning the sale and supply of puberty-suppressing hormones will be made indefinite, following official advice from medical experts. The Commission on Human Medicines (CHM) has provided independent expert advice that there is currently an unacceptable safety risk in the continued prescription of puberty blockers to children.…
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Politico Donald Trump is expected to be named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” — and to celebrate the unveiling of the cover, the president-elect will ring the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday morning, according to three people familiar with the plans granted anonymity…
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Breitbart A report published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) this week revealed previously unconfirmed information on four eavesdropping facilities in Cuba that China may be utilizing to conduct espionage on the United States. CSIS, a Washington-based think tank, detailed in the report that satellite imagery and open-source…
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Washington Examiner Federal bankruptcy judge Christopher M. Lopez rejected the Onion‘s bid to buy Infowars, the website of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, citing that the auction of the website and the bid lacked transparency and created an uneven playing field. Chicago-based satirical publication, won the auction for the website while backed by the families of the…
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Washington Examiner Police arrested a suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on Monday. Luigi Mangione, 26, was described as a “person of interest” by New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch at a news conference Monday afternoon. She added that Mangione had multiple items on him, including a firearm…
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Breitbart Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that he’s open to the potential deployment of Western troops in Ukraine to guarantee the country´s security as part of a broad effort to end the almost three-year war with Russia. The deployment would be a step toward Ukraine joining NATO, Zelenskyy…
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Axios China is launching an antitrust investigation into AI giant Nvidia, triggering fears of an escalating international dispute entangling one of America’s most vital tech companies. The move may be seen as a retaliation over the U.S. imposing restrictions on the sale of advanced AI chips and technology to…
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New York Post A Manhattan jury has cleared Daniel Penny of criminal wrongdoing in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely on a crowded subway — a caught-on-video killing that sparked fierce debate over the city’s mental health system and crime underground. The panelists acquitted Penny of criminally negligent homicide — which could have put him…
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The Daily Wire A doctor celebrated as “America’s best-known practitioner of youth gender medicine” is being sued for medical negligence by a former patient — a young girl who underwent a gender transition and now feels she was deeply betrayed. Twenty-year-old Kaya Clementine Breen accuses Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy of fast-tracking her attempted…
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The Washington Examiner Republicans killed two measures that would have compelled the House Ethics Committee to release its report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz, but some would be willing to reverse their stance if the former Florida congressman is nominated for another position. “Many of us voted to support the precedent but will feel…
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Breitbart Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) on Thursday, after a groundswell of support for Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth, denied she is behind a campaign on Capitol Hill to tank his nomination and seek the job herself. “I don’t have a campaign against Pete,” she told RealClearPolitics’s White House correspondent Philip Wegmann, adding…
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Axios The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday announced a federal order that the country’s milk supply be tested for bird flu. The sluggish federal response to the H5N1 bird flu outbreak has alarmed researchers, especially with new findings that the virus is one mutation away from being able to more efficiently affect humans.…
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The Economist JOHANNA OLSON-KENNEDY is among the most celebrated youth gender medicine clinicians in the world. She has been the Medical Director of the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), one of the first high-profile American youth gender clinics and presently the largest, since…
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Breitbart Several top Veterans Affairs officials in Tennessee resigned as an internal investigation and a broader congressional probe into alleged sexual misconduct intensified, Breitbart News has learned. Congressional investigators discovered that one man who resigned, whose name they would not tell Breitbart News but sources familiar say was a…
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The Hill The Biden administration issued new restrictions Monday on exports of certain semiconductor chips and equipment to China, marking the Biden administration’s latest crackdown to curb the country’s competitive advancements in chipmaking. The new export controls place more than 100 Chinese chipmaking tool manufacturers on a restricted trade list, prohibiting…
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Politico A House staffer was arrested Monday morning for entering the Cannon House Office Building with ammunition, according to a statement from the US Capitol Police. Capitol Police said the staffer is Michael Hopkins, who is the communications director for Rep. Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.). “USCP officers noticed what appeared…
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Axios President Biden is facing a steady trickle of condemnation from members of his own party for issuing a pardon of his son Hunter over the weekend. The pardon is already having downstream political ramifications for Democrats as Republicans try to tie them to it. Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), an incoming…
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New York Post Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is willing to hand over territory to Russia in exchange for NATO protection if it means ending the war. “If we want to stop the hot stage of the war, we should take under [the] NATO umbrella the territory of Ukraine that…
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