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Roy Rochlin/Getty Images, FILE (NEW YORK) — Across hours of podcast and television interviews, Army veteran and Fox News host Pete Hegseth has articulated his plan for a “frontal assault” to reform the Department of Defense from the top down, including by purging “woke” generals, limiting women from some combat roles, eliminating diversity goals and utilizing the […]
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden is taking maybe his final lap on the world stage this week with a trip to South America. He’s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, making a historic visit to the Amazon rainforest and attending two major summits. His travel comes just about […]
Gary Miller/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The satirical website The Onion purchased InfoWars on Thursday, a capstone on years of litigation and bankruptcy proceedings following InfoWars founder Alex Jones’ defamation of families associated with the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. Those families backed The Onion’s bid to purchase InfoWars’ intellectual property, including its website, customer lists and […]
VINCE BUCCI/AFP via Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — As calls grow for the Menendez brothers to be released from prison, the incoming Los Angeles County district attorney says he has a lot of evidence to review before showing his support. Nathan Hochman won last week’s election for DA, beating incumbent George Gascón in a landslide, will take […]
Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead. Via Flickr (WASHINGTON) — After a sweeping victory over Vice President Kamala Harris on Nov. 5, President-elect Donald Trump is now set to become just the second ever to serve nonconsecutive terms in office. Trump has wasted no time in moving to assemble his team for a second […]
Operation Bear Claw reveals suspects allegedly wore bear costume to commit insurance fraud. Image via California Department of Insurance (LOS ANGELES) — Four individuals were arrested Wednesday for allegedly attempting to defraud their insurance companies by claiming a bear had damaged their vehicles — when in fact it was a person in a bear costume […]
Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Senate Republicans on Wednesday elected John Thune to be the next Republican leader to succeed Mitch McConnell in a position he’s held for 17 years. In doing so, they decided against choosing Trump ally Sen. Rick. Scott. With McConnell announcing his intent to step aside earlier this […]
Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images (WASHINGTON, D.C.) — President-elect Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he has chosen Rep. Matt Gaetz as his pick for attorney general, a move that, if he’s confirmed by the Senate, would place a firebrand and one of Trump’s most loyal allies at the head of the Justice Department. “Matt […]
SimpleImages/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Special counsel Jack Smith on Wednesday asked a federal appeals court to pause his appeal of the dismissal of President-elect Donald Trump’s classified documents case. The move is part of Smith’s winding down of his two cases against Trump — the classified documents case and the federal election interference case […]
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A Bronx man who helped Daniel Penny restrain Jordan Neely on a New York City subway car last year ”jumped in and tried to help” so Penny could release his chokehold, according to the man’s testimony Wednesday at Penny’s manslaughter and negligent homicide trial. Eric Gonzalez, who is […]