(Headline USA) Joe Biden has tapped Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine to be his assistant secretary of health, leaving him poised to become the first transgender federal official to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
A pediatrician and former Pennsylvania physician general, Levine was appointed to his current post by Democratic...
(Headline USA) Joe Biden plans to unveil a sweeping immigration bill on Day One of his administration, hoping to provide an eight-year path to citizenship for an estimated 11 million people living in the U.S. illegally, a massive reversal from the Trump administration's immigration policies.
The legislation puts Biden on track...
(Headline USA) Sen. Josh Hawley has found a new publisher after his book was dropped by Simon & Schuster in the wake of the siege of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump and Antifa agitators.
The conversative publisher Regnery announced Monday that Hawley's “The Tyranny of Big Tech”...
(Headline USA) U.S. defense officials say they are worried about an insider attack or other threat from service members involved in securing Democrat Joe Biden’s inauguration, prompting the FBI to vet all of the 25,000 National Guard troops coming into Washington for the event.
The massive undertaking reflects the extraordinary security...
(Headline USA) Loews Hotels said Saturday it has canceled an upcoming fundraiser for U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, the latest fallout for the Republican lawmaker after the U.S. Capitol uprising.
The Republican senator from Missouri helped staged an Electoral College challenge the day President Donald Trump's supporters, egged on by Antifa agitators,...
(Headline USA) Transgender athletes are eagerly awaiting next week's transition of power as they seek to participate in high school and college sports, flouting gender norms and conventions that have long separated the two sexes based on biological differences that may give some an unfair competitive advantage.
But despite their...
(Headline USA) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi offered no clues Friday on her plans to send President Donald Trump’s impeachment to the Senate for trial, but made it clear that Democrats intend to move swiftly on Joe Biden’s legislative priorities, including funding for coronavirus vaccines and relief aid.
Pelosi said Biden's proposed...
(Headline USA) Vice President Mike Pence has called his soon-to-be successor Kamala Harris to offer his congratulations, according to two people familiar with the conversation.
It's the first known contact between the elected members of the outgoing and incoming administrations.
President Donald Trump has not reached out to Democrat Joe Biden and...
(Headline USA) The owner of a gym in Bellmawr, NJ, who defied extreme coronavirus lockdown orders by Gov. Phil Murphy, announced on Instagram that the state government has vacuumed all of his assets from his business's bank account.
Ian Smith said in a video post that the State of New...
(Headline USA) President Xi Jinping is asking former CEO Howard Schultz of Starbucks to help repair U.S.-Chinese relations that have plunged to their lowest level in decades amid a tariff war and tension over technology and security.
A letter from Xi to Schultz reported Friday by the official Xinhua News Agency...
(Associated Press) The U.S. military has met its goal of reducing the number of troops in Afghanistan to about 2,500 by Friday, a drawdown that appears to violate a last-minute congressional prohibition.
President Donald Trump, who ordered the reduction in November, said Thursday that troop levels in Afghanistan had reached a...
(Headline USA) Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell did not rule out that he might eventually vote to convict the now twice-impeached President Donald Trump, but he also blocked a quick Senate impeachment trial.
Minutes after the House voted 232-197 on Wednesday to impeach Trump, McConnell said in a letter to his GOP...
