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Scott Olson/Getty Images (PALM BEACH, Fla.) — President-elect Donald Trump declared in a left-field proposal on Tuesday that his administration will rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America” in his latest attack on Mexico. “We’re going to change because we do most of the work there and it’s ours,” Trump said. “It’s appropriate, […]
Christian Monterrosa/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House voted at 1 p.m. Tuesday on the Laken Riley Act, passing the bill as its first piece of legislation of the 119th Congress on a vote of 264 to 159. Forty-eight Democrats voted in favor of the bill. “Laken Riley was brutally murdered by an illegal […]
Antoine Gyori – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President-elect Donald Trump, speaking at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday, blasted President Joe Biden’s final actions before leaving office. Trump accused the outgoing administration of not providing a “smooth transition.” Trump kicked off the presser by announcing a $20 billion investment in the U.S. from DAMAC Properties, a Middle East-based […]
Lena Klimkeit/picture alliance via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Congress is gathering for a joint session to certify the results of the 2024 election, the final step before President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, after some major changes to security for the ceremony and the law that dictates how it’s carried out. Before 2021, the […]
Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House and Senate lawmakers on Monday met for joint session to certify President-elect Donald Trump’s 2024 victory. Vice President Kamala Harris, who presided over the ceremony, read the results aloud. Republicans cheered loudly as she announced Trump’s 312 electoral votes, while Democrats did the same for her 226 […]
Mustafa Yalcin/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Monday marks the fourth anniversary of the violent events of Jan. 6, 2021 — a day President-elect Donald Trump has continually tried to recast as a “day of love.” Trump is vowing to pardon Jan. 6 rioters on the first day of his administration, saying while it will […]
Mario Tama/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden is making a sweeping move to ban all future offshore oil and natural gas drilling on America’s East and West coasts, the Eastern Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s North Bering Sea. “My decision reflects what coastal communities, businesses, and beachgoers have known for a long time: that […]
(Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Sixty years after Black Americans gained the right to vote in the United States through the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Sen. Tim Scott on Friday makes history, becoming the longest-serving African American in the 235-year history of the United States Senate. This historic moment will be shared […]
Gen. Richard Edward Cavazos. Via U.S. Army. (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Friday is set to award the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military decoration, to seven U.S. Army veterans for heroism during the Korean War and Vietnam War. The Medal of Honor is awarded to those who “distinguish themselves conspicuously by gallantry […]
Tim Graham/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Following reports of alleged impropriety by Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Defense, the top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee have quietly made a request for additional information from the veterans organization Hegseth once ran, as well as the district attorney […]