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RFK Jr. Reportedly Makes Phone Calls To Push Key Appointment For Family Member
It's Donald Trump who makes the decision, but RFK Jr. is actively promoting a family member for another post.
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Homeland security officials meet with lawmakers about mysterious drone flights in New Jersey
Homeland security officials in New Jersey huddled with state and local lawmakers Wednesday to discuss the recent spate of drone sightings throughout the state. Part of the worry stems from the flying objects initially being spotted near the Picatinny Arsenal, a U.S. military research and manufacturing facility; and over President-elect Donald Trump’s golf course in Bedminster. Drones are legal in New Jersey for recreational and commercial use, but they are subject to local and Federal Aviation
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Bank of Canada cuts interest rate by half a percentage point, highlights risk of Trump's tariffs
Canada’s central bank lowered its key interest rate by half a percentage point on Wednesday and called President-elect Donald Trump's threat to impose sweeping new tariffs on Canada “a major source of new uncertainty.” The Bank of Canada's decision marked the fifth consecutive reduction since June and brings the central bank’s key rate down to 3.25%. Forecasters were widely expecting a big rate cut after the November labor force survey showed the unemployment rate rose to 6.8%.
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Blinken faces GOP critics in Congress who say Afghanistan withdrawal 'lit the world on fire'
Under fire from congressional Republicans about one of the darkest moments of Joe Biden’s presidency, Secretary of State Antony Blinken defended the administration’s handling of the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, saying Democrats struggled to make the best of a bad pullout deal struck by Donald Trump. Blinken testified Wednesday before the Republican-led House Foreign Affairs Committee, facing questions from lawmakers for the last time.
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Even if Trump tried to raise the minimum wage, his own party could get in the way
Trump recently signaled openness to raising the federal minimum wage. Even if he's serious, he's likely to hit GOP resistance.
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Rep. Nancy Mace Says She Was 'Physically Accosted' On Capitol Hill
"One new brace for my wrist and some ice for my arm and it’ll heal just fine," the South Carolina Republican said.
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Chuck Todd: Is the rise of the independents coming? An experiment is brewing in a key battleground
While most of Washington is obsessed with either the reality show that is President-elect Donald Trump's transition or the hand-wringing and blame-gaming over Democrats' election loss, a potentially critical political storyline is brewing in Michigan.
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Trump names California Republican Harmeet Dhillon for top civil rights post
President-elect Donald Trump named Harmeet Dhillon to lead the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division.
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Trump picks Kimberly Guilfoyle and Tom Barrack to be ambassadors to Greece and Turkey
President-elect Donald Trump said he would nominate former Fox News personality Kimberly Guilfoyle and his longtime billionaire friend Tom Barrack to serve as ambassadors to Greece and Turkey respectively.
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Top Republicans split over strategy to move Trump's 2025 agenda
Top Republicans are divided over the best strategy to advance border, tax, energy and other core components of President-elect Donald Trump’s agenda through reconciliation next year.
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Trump lawyers and aide hit with 10 additional charges in Wisconsin over 2020 fake electors
The charges are for using forgery in an attempt to defraud Republican electors who cast their ballots for Trump that year.
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Kimberly Guilfoyle Nominated For Greece Ambassadorship Amid Drama With Don Jr.
The news came on the same day that various outlets reported that Donald Trump Jr. has been recently seen holding hands with Florida socialite Bettina Anderson.
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New York prosecutors urge judge not to toss out Trump hush money conviction
Prosecutors from the Manhattan district attorney's office urged a New York judge not to throw out President-elect Donald Trump's criminal conviction in his hush money case, offering a variety of suggestions about how the case could proceed without interfering with his presidential duties.
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Marc Andreessen says he's spent 'half' his time at Mar-a-Lago since the election, weighing in on tech and economic policy
In a podcast appearance, Marc Andreessen said he now spends about "half" his time with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago weighing in on policy issues.
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San Diego sheriff defies new policy to limit cooperation with immigration officials
The sheriff of the nation’s fifth-largest county on Tuesday defied a new policy to limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities, setting up a showdown over a new obstacle to President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans. Earlier Tuesday, San Diego County supervisors voted to prohibit its sheriff's department from working with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on the federal agency's enforcement of civil immigration laws, including those that allow for deportations. Cal
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A blue state could provide an early test for the Trump coalition: From the Politics Desk
New Jersey’s 2025 gubernatorial contest could serve as an early test of the Republican Party's new coalition under Trump.
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House task force releases final report on Trump assassination attempts
The House task force investigating the assassination attempts against Donald Trump recommended that the Secret Service scale back the president and other top U.S. officials.
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Ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner, jailed for sexting child, eyes political comeback in New York City Council
Former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner has filed to run for a seat on the New York City Council, launching a potential political comeback after his once-promising career was destroyed by sexting scandals and later a criminal conviction for having illicit online contact with a child. Campaign finance records list a campaign committee that was set up on Friday for Weiner called Weiner 25, in addition to listing him as a candidate for a council seat in lower Manhattan. In a phone conversation Tuesday wi
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Democratic President Rebuilds Economy, Just In Time To Hand It Off To Trump — Again
Trump damaged the Obama economy he inherited with his trade war, and now appears poised to repeat that move with the Biden economy.
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Senators are skeptical of Trump's call for a bipartisan deal on Dreamers
Senators in both parties are skeptical of Donald Trump's call for a bipartisan agreement to protect Dreamers who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children.
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Kroger-Albertsons Merger Blocked By Federal Judge
The order is a setback for the two grocers and a big win for Biden’s antitrust regulators.
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Biden says he was 'stupid' not to put his name on pandemic relief checks like Trump did
President Joe Biden said Tuesday he was “stupid” not to put his own name on pandemic relief checks in 2021, noting that Donald Trump had done so in 2020 and likely got credit for helping people out through this simple, effective act of branding. Biden did the second-guessing as he delivered a speech at the Brookings Institution defending his economic record and challenging Trump to preserve Democratic policy ideas when he returns to the White House next month. As Biden focused on his legacy wi
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Another recount won't be ordered in a North Carolina court race, but protests are ahead
North Carolina election officials won't order another recount in a close state Supreme Court race after a partial hand recount failed to suggest the trailing Republican candidate could overtake the Democratic incumbent. Following the completion of a machine recount of over 5.5 million ballots last week, Democratic Associate Justice Allison Riggs maintained a 734-vote lead over Republican Jefferson Griffin, who is currently a state Court of Appeals judge. Griffin then requested a partial hand r
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Sen. Mitch McConnell is 'fine' after medical personnel spotted at his office, GOP senator says
Outgoing Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is "fine" after medical personnel made a visit to his office Tuesday, Sen. John Thune told reporters.
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Trump’s deportation plan would hurt families and economy, Senate hears
Witnesses testify to judiciary committee as top Republican says undocumented people should ‘get ready to leave’
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Florida lawmaker's party switch increases Republican supermajority in the House
If last month's election wasn't painful enough for Florida Democrats, they're losing another state House seat after one of their members announced Monday that she's switching parties. State Rep. Susan Valdés, a former school board member who was reelected as a Democrat last month, said on X that she is “tired of being the party of protesting.” Valdés ran to be chairperson for her local county’s Democratic executive committee earlier this month.
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Outgoing Senate GOP Leader McConnell Has A Fall In Latest Health Episode
The veteran Kentucky senator stepped down from his perch as the top Republican senator after he froze up in front of cameras last year.
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Yellen says Trump's tariffs could derail US inflation progress, raise costs
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Tuesday she was worried that President-elect Donald Trump's plans to levy broad import tariffs could derail progress in quelling inflation and raise costs for households and businesses. Yellen, at a Wall Street Journal CEO Council event, also said she was concerned about U.S. fiscal sustainability and said Congress needed to look for ways to pay for any extensions of Trump's 2017 individual and small-business tax cuts, which are
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For now, 'Dreamers' will be shut out of the health care marketplace in 19 states
Young adult immigrants known as “Dreamers” in 19 U.S. states will be temporarily blocked from getting health insurance through the Affordable Care Act's public marketplace, a federal judge has ruled, limiting an effort by the Biden administration to help immigrants brought to the country illegally as children. Judge Daniel Traynor of the U.S. District Court in North Dakota issued the order Monday from Bismarck, dealing a setback to a Biden administration rule that was estimated to allow 147,000
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N.Y. attorney general refuses to drop $486 million judgment against Trump
New York Attorney General Letitia James has rejected President-elect Donald Trump's request to walk away from her office's $486 million civil fraud judgment against him.
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Biden issues veto threat on bill expanding federal judiciary as partisan split emerges
House Republicans teed up a vote this week on bipartisan legislation to gradually expand by 66 the number of federal judgeships across the country. Democrats, though, are having second thoughts now that President-elect Donald Trump has won a second term. The White House said Tuesday that if President Joe Biden were presented with the bill, he would veto it.
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McConnell falls and sprains wrist after GOP luncheon, colleague says he is 'fine'
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell fell and sprained his wrist while walking out of a GOP luncheon on Tuesday, the latest in a series of medical incidents for him in recent years. McConnell, who is stepping down from his leadership post at the end of the year, was walking out of his weekly party lunch with Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso when he tripped and fell, Barrasso said, before walking back to his office on his own. The longtime Republican leader, 82, also has a cut on his face, his of
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Former Jan. 6 committee chair fires back at Trump's suggestion that panel members should be imprisoned
WASHINGTON — Rep. Bennie Thompson, who chaired the now-defunct House Jan. 6 committee, pushed back Tuesday against President-elect Donald Trump's suggestion that the panel's former members should be imprisoned.
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'The Democratic Brand Stinks' Due To Cultural Disconnect, Says Dem Senator
Virginia Democrat Mark Warner said his party needs to show it is not out of touch with U.S. voters.
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Biden says it was 'stupid' not to have signed his name on COVID-19 stimulus checks like Trump
While speaking at the Brookings Institute, Biden reflected on his economic record following an election where it was rejected by many voters.
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Trump lawyers and aide hit with 10 additional felony charges in Wisconsin over 2020 fake electors
Wisconsin prosecutors filed 10 additional felony charges Tuesday against two attorneys and an aide to President-elect Donald Trump who advised Trump in 2020 as part of a plan to submit paperwork falsely claiming that the Republican had won the battleground state that year. Jim Troupis, who was Trump’s attorney in Wisconsin, Kenneth Chesebro, an attorney who advised the campaign, and Mike Roman, Trump’s director of Election Day operations in 2020, all initially faced a single felony forgery char
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Trump mocks Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as the 'governor' of the 'Great State of Canada'
President-elect Donald Trump mocked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as the "governor" of the "Great State of Canada" after recently joking about the country becoming the 51st state.
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US officials to investigate labor and human rights abuses in Nicaragua
The Biden administration is opening an investigation into labor and human rights abuses in Nicaragua, impacting relations with a country the U.S. has a free trade deal with amid growing concerns over President Daniel Ortega’s increasingly authoritarian rule. The investigation being opened by the U.S. Trade Representative must be completed within a year. “Numerous reports suggest the Government of Nicaragua is engaging in repressive acts that harm Nicaragua’s own workers and people, undermine f
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Lawmaker who was member of ruling coalition shot dead in Mexico
Benito Aguas Atlahua was a member of the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico, part of the ruling coalition that controls congress.
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Once strongly liberal, Pico-Robertson surged for Trump in 2024. Why?
Citing public safety and Biden's approach to the Israel-Palestinian situation, many in the Jewish neighborhood of Pico-Robertson voted for Trump in the 2024 presidential election.
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In Arcadia and Temple City, Asian American voters fueled gains for Trump
While Arcadia and Temple City remained solidly blue, many voters expressed despair about crime and the economy as reasons to give Donald Trump another chance.
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Trump allies adopt new strategy for nominees: Make the doubters pay
Skeptical Republican senators were singing a different tune about Pete Hegseth on Monday.
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Biden's approval of an oil lease sale will keep the door open to drilling in Alaska's Arctic refuge
The Biden administration has approved plans for a sale of oil and gas leases in Alaska that leaves open the door for drilling in a portion of the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The sale will be held Jan. 9, less than two weeks before President Joe Biden leaves office. It will include a fraction of the land total that was available for bidding roughly four years ago in a sale held during the Trump administration.
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Trudeau says Americans are realizing Trump's tariffs on Canada would make life a lot more expensive
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday that Americans “are beginning to wake up to the real reality that tariffs on everything from Canada would make life a lot more expensive" and said he will retaliate if Donald Trump goes ahead with them. Speaking at an event put on by the Halifax Chamber of Commerce, Trudeau also said dealing with Trump will be “a little more challenging” than the last time because Trump’s team is coming in with a much clearer set of ideas of what they want to d
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Trump's Cabinet picks set off political chain reaction in Florida congressional races
The field of candidates has been set for two special elections in Florida to replace members of Congress nominated for positions in President-elect Donald Trump’s new administration. Two dozen candidates have filed to run for the seats of outgoing Republican Reps. Matt Gaetz and Mike Waltz, though Trump has already weighed in on his preferred successors. Trump's reliance on Florida lawmakers for his new Cabinet is setting off a political chain reaction that’s opening up new possibilities in th
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Clarke Reed, who helped Gerald Ford win the 1976 Republican nomination, has died at 96
Clarke Reed, a Mississippi businessman who developed the Republican Party in his home state and across the South starting in the 1960s, died Sunday at his home in Greenville, Mississippi. Reed was chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party from 1966 to 1976, beginning at a time when Democrats still dominated in the region. During the 1976 Republican National Convention, delegates were closely divided between President Gerald Ford and former California Gov. Ronald Reagan.
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RNC treasurer announces bid to replace Lara Trump as co-chair
Republican National Committee Treasurer KC Crosbie told fellow members Sunday night that she is running for RNC co-chair to replace Lara Trump, who said Sunday night she is stepping down from that post.
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California to consider requiring mental health warnings on social media sites
California, home to some of the largest technology companies in the world, would be the first U.S. state to require mental health warning labels on social media sites if lawmakers pass a bill introduced Monday. The legislation sponsored by state Attorney General Rob Bonta is necessary to bolster safety for children online, supporters say, but industry officials vow to fight the measure and others like it under the First Amendment. Warning labels for social media gained swift bipartisan support
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DeSantis appointee says he won't help his elected replacement take office
A state attorney in Florida told his staff he can't legally help his elected replacement take over his seat because Gov. Ron DeSantis had already suspended the Democrat from the office, according to an internal email obtained by The Associated Press. An executive order issued by DeSantis in 2023 suspending then-State Attorney Monique Worrell from office is still in effect, argued state attorney Andrew Bain in a message sent to staff on Monday. The governor appointed Bain to the 9th Judicial Ci
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Five years since its inception, a US development agency competes with China on global projects
When President Joe Biden visited Angola last week, one of the highlights was his pledge of hundreds of millions of dollars for an ambitious trans-Africa rail project that would bring copper and cobalt from central Africa to the Atlantic port of Lobito. The project is possible because of the commitment of a $553 million direct loan from the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, created in 2019 during the first Trump administration to counter China's expansion of its global reach th
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