Five more of President Biden’s judicial nominees advanced out of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday and will proceed to the Senate floor in the coming days. Senate Democrats confirmed Biden’s 220th federal court appointment on Wednesday and are hoping to add to that number before the Thanksgiving holiday. Republicans have fought several of these nominees on grounds that they ...
Matt Gaetz, the former Florida representative and President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, announced Thursday that he is withdrawing as Trump’s pick for the top prosecutor. Who is in consideration now for the top spot? Here are potential names floated to head the Department of Justice next. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey was tapped ...
Matt Gaetz, the former Florida representative and Trump nominee for Attorney General, announced Thursday that he is withdrawing as Trump’s pick for the top prosecutor, citing what he described as the ‘distraction’ his nomination had caused due to a swirl of allegations about paying underage women for sex. ‘While the momentum was strong, it is clear that my confirmation was ...
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., claims that Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and FBI Director Christopher Wray skipped a public Senate hearing to avoid criticism over the verdict in the case of Laken Riley’s murder. Mayorkas and Wray were scheduled to testify before the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Thursday, but the hearing was postponed after they insisted it be classified ...
House Republicans are eyeing ways to slash the outpouring of federal dollars after President-elect Donald Trump signaled that cutting government red tape would be a major part of his agenda. Rep. Stephanie Bice, R-Okla., introduced a new bill on Thursday, titled the ‘Decreasing Overlapping Grants Efficiently (DOGE) Act,’ which would establish a system for cutting down on redundant government grants ...
House lawmakers were briefed Wednesday about the potential outcome if the U.S. were to find itself at war with China over Taiwan within the next two years, as the global superpower increasingly encroaches on U.S. allies. The Chinese defense industrial base is operating at a ‘wartime footing,’ and now has a shipbuilding capacity 230 times greater than the U.S.’s, making ...
As President-elect Donald Trump continues to shape his cabinet, the selection of Mike Waltz as incoming national security adviser gives me, the father of Itay Chen, a U.S. hostage being held in Gaza by Hamas, a renewed sense of hope. Waltz should bring the decisive policy changes that we, the families of those abducted by Hamas, have been begging for. My son Itay, along ...
The International Criminal Court (ICC) rejected challenges from Israel and issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Thursday. The ICC charged Netanyahu and Gallant with ‘crimes against humanity and war crimes,’ including using starvation as a method of warfare and targeting civilians. Israeli President Isaac Herzog condemned the move in a ...
The Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action for America are launching a $1 million public education campaign to advocate for the ‘prompt confirmation’ of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet appointees and will target the home states of key senators who could ‘make or break’ the confirmation process, Fox News Digital has learned. The campaign will also educate the American public on presidential ...
In his first term, President-elect Donald Trump burned through four White House chiefs of staff who tried in vain to police who had access to the president. Now, incoming chief of staff Susie Wiles, the ‘ice maiden,’ will be tasked with guarding the president from special interests who seek to abuse the White House for their own personal gain. But ...