(Headline USA) President-elect Donald Trump is naming longtime adviser Stephen Miller, a border-security hardliner, to be the deputy chief of policy in his new administration.
Confirming the appointment, Vice President-elect JD Vance posted a message of congratulations on Monday to Miller on X and said, “This is another fantastic pick by the president.”
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(Headline USA) More than half of the monkeys bred for medical research that escaped from a compound in South Carolina last week have now been recovered unharmed, officials said Sunday.
Twenty-four monkeys were captured on Sunday, a day after another of the 43 escaped monkeys was recovered.
A “sizeable group” remains active along the...
(Headline USA) President-elect Donald Trump urged the incoming Republican-led Senate to empower him to appoint some nominees without a Senate vote amid fears that Democrats would use the filibuster, which they previously tried to eliminate, in order to derail his administration by delaying Cabinet appointments.
Republican Sens. John Thune of...
(Headline USA) President-elect Donald Trump, who flouted normal protocol by assembling a privately funded transition team ahead of last week's election---thereby staving off the possibility of deep-state meddling---hit the ground running with at least two major appointments Monday morning for his incoming administration.
He named Tom Homan, former acting chief...
(Headline USA) Rep. Eli Crane, R-Ariz., won reelection in a Republican-leaning congressional district covering vast swaths of rural Arizona.
Crane faced a spirited challenge from Democrat Jonathan Nez, the former Navajo Nation president, in the 2nd District race. Nez was vying to become the first Native American to represent Arizona...
(Headline USA) The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. rose for the sixth straight week, returning to its highest level since early July.
The rate ticked up to 6.79% from 6.72% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. That’s still down from a year ago, when the...
(Headline USA) A Federal Emergency Management Agency worker has been fired after she directed workers helping hurricane survivors not to go to homes with yard signs supporting President-elect Donald Trump, the agency's leader said in a statement Saturday.
“This is a clear violation of FEMA’s core values and principles to...
(Headline USA) Online consensus predicted that a series of racist text messages sent to black men, women and students, including middle schoolers, were likely another racial hoax similar to the
Smollett's name began trending on X as news of the supposed scandal first broke on Thursday, two days after Republicans swept...
(Headline USA) A pair of far-left activist groups on Saturday petitioned the Arizona Supreme Court to extend the deadline for voters to fix problems with their mail-in ballots following delays in vote counting and notifying voters about problems.
The court case could mean further delays in a state and county that...
(Catrina Barker, The Center Square) Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker launched Think Big America, a nonprofit focused on expanding access to abortion in states across the country. It’s part of his broader mission of “combating far-right extremism.”
Think Big invested millions of dollars advocating for abortion ballot initiatives in eight states....
(Headline USA) Between finding openings, sending out your resume and interviewing, looking for a job is tough. Now a growing trend of scammers impersonating recruiters is making it even harder.
In the last year, job scams have been on the rise, according to Eva Velasquez, president and CEO of the Identity Theft Resource...
(Headline USA) Brian Leija, a 31-year-old small-business owner from Belton, Texas, was not surprised that a growing number of Latino men of his generation voted for Donald Trump for president this year. Leija had voted for the Republican in 2016 and 2020.
Leija's rationale was simple: He said he has...