(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., removed Mike Turner, R-Ohio., as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, a move that garnered praise from conservatives due to Turner’s puzzling support for Ukrainian funding and Section 702 of the FISA law.
Johnson said Thursday that Turner’s removal was not...
(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Former Vice President Mike Pence’s organization, Advancing American Freedom (AAF), recently suggested that senators should not confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over his stance on abortion.
The Daily Wire obtained the organization's letter, stating that President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee is not fit to serve as...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, found a new way to attack President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees during their confirmation hearings: questioning whether they've ever been accused of sexual misconduct.
Hirono’s fixation on sexual behavior and bizarre line of questioning appeared to echo Democrats’ longstanding tactic of accusing their opponents...
(Headline USA) President-elect Donald Trump wants to make Hollywood “bigger, better and stronger” and has cast Mel Gibson, Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone as stars of what he is calling his “Special Ambassadors to a great but very troubled place, Hollywood, California.”
On Wednesday, the President-elect announced on his social...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Sai Varshith Kandula, a schizophrenic non-citizen from India, was sentenced to 96 months imprisonment on Thursday for crashing a U-Haul truck into a security barrier across from the White House in 2023—a half-baked plan that the Justice Department and liberal media used to inflate the...
(Headline USA) Michel Bérrios left the United States a few days before the new year, giving President-elect Donald Trump's campaign for mass deportations a small victory before they even started.
A former leader of a Nicaraguan student riot, Bérrios had been in the U.S. under President Joe Biden's unprecedented open-border...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Journalist Susan Crabtree reported Thursday that Secret Service special agent-in-charge Sean Curran, who was the head of Donald Trump’s security detail, has been appointed to lead his agency.
Curran was with Trump at Butler on July 13, and is pictured in the iconic photo of the...
(Julianna Frieman, Headline USA) Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., announced Thursday that state Attorney General Ashley Moody would replace incoming Secretary of State-nominee Marco Rubio as Florida’s U.S. senator.
Rubio faced off with his Senate colleagues Wednesday in his confirmation hearing. He is set to resign as soon as he gets confirmed,...
(Matt Lamb, Headline USA) A top official in Portland said the Oregon city may need to cut "equity" roles due to a pending budget deficit.
The city is forecasting a $27 million budget shortfall starting in the new fiscal year, according to its official website.
This has led city administrator Michael...
(Headline USA) Treasury Secretary-nominee Scott Bessent told his confirmation hearing Thursday that President-elect Donald Trump has an opportunity to unleash “a new economic golden age."
In testimony, Bessent said the U.S. must secure vulnerable supply chains, levy sanctions to address national security concerns “and critically, we must ensure that the...
(Headline USA) President-elect Donald Trump tasked a New Jersey congressman and vocal critic of offshore wind with writing an executive order he could issue to halt wind energy projects.
Offshore wind is a major part of transitioning to an electric grid powered entirely by sources that don’t emit carbon dioxide...
(Julianna Frieman, Headline USA) Outgoing Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen spoke at length about getting “high” Wednesday during an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Yellen, 78, giddily addressed the time she ate mushrooms that can have psychedelic effects during a state visit to Beijing in July 2023. Colbert asked...