A 19-year-old Wisconsin man admitted to setting GOP Rep. Glenn Grothman’s leased district office on fire over his support for banning TikTok if its parent company doesn’t sell the app to a U.S. company, according to the Fond du Lac Police Department.
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President Joe Biden pardons brother Jim Biden and other family members on Monday just before his time in office expired.
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President-elect Donald Trump plans to sign historic numbers of executive orders shortly after taking the oath of Monday that will address everything from border security to women’s sports.
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President Joe Biden on Monday, just hours before he leaves office and Donald Trump becomes president, pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley and members of the Jan. 6 committee.
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Protest organizers expect approximately 50,000 people to gather in Washington, D.C., on Saturday to protest President-elect Donald Trump’s upcoming inauguration.
The number is drastically smaller than the 500,000 people that protested Trump’s first inauguration in 2017, but experts told The Hill that the protest this year is to keep voters engaged rather than portray the emotions that are felt regarding Trump’s second victory.
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Days before departing his last political job, a beleaguered Joe Biden went to the podium to announce a long-awaited ceasefire between Hamas and Israel. But when pressed by the news media over who should get credit for the deal, the 46th American president demurred.
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The Department of Education (DOE) on Wednesday announced the forgiveness of another $4.5 billion in student loans for over 200,000 borrowers at Ashford University, in one of the department’s final moves of the Biden administration.
President Joe Biden and his administration have attempted to clear out a massive amount of student loan debt for Americans who are still paying off their loans after 20 years, though some efforts have been curbed by the courts. However, they have successfully forgiven loans for over 5 million borrowers over the past four years.
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President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday confirmed a deal to secure the release of hostages in Gaza amid reports that Israel and Hamas had finalized a ceasefire agreement.
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Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire deal that will halt fighting in Gaza, resulting in the release of hostages and Palestinian prisoners, a source told CNN Wednesday. “The movement has dealt with this matter with full responsibility and positivity, stemming from its duty towards our steadfast and resilient people in the Gaza Strip, to stop the Zionist aggression against them and put an end to the massacres and genocide they are facing,” a Hamas senior official told the outlet.
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Vice President-elect JD Vance said that people who “committed violence” on Jan. 6, 2021, during the Capitol riots, should “obviously” not be pardoned by President-elect Donald Trump.
“I think it’s very simple, look, if you protested peacefully on Jan. 6, and you had Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice treat you like a gang member, you should be pardoned,” Vance said in an interview on “Fox News Sunday.”
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The Supreme Court declined Monday to review challenges to state and local lawsuits against oil companies seeking to force them to pay for damages allegedly caused by climate change.
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Wind-fueled wildfires continued to rage across Los Angeles early Friday, reducing once iconic neighborhoods to charred apocalyptic scenes while carving a path of historic death and devastation across a city increasingly frustrated at its political leaders.
Authorities announced late Thursday at least 10,000 homes, commercial buildings and other structures had been burned to the ground and that the death toll had grown to double digits.
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Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta on Friday announced the end of its corporate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs, marking a dramatic reversal as such programs come under intense scrutiny from the public.
“The legal and policy landscape surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in the United States is changing,” wrote Vice President of Human Resources Janelle Gale in a memo obtained by Axios.
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President-elect Donald Trump on Friday received a sentence of unconditional discharge in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s hush money case.
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The Supreme Court on Thursday night denied President-elect Donald Trump’s last minute request to block sentencing in his hush money case.
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President-elect Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to block the release of special counsel Jack Smith’s entire report after Attorney General Merrick Garland said he would release only the portion addressing the D.C. election case.
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The Senate on Thursday voted to advance the “Laken Riley Act” past a critical procedural threshold, clearing the way for a final vote on the legislation.
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President Joe Biden bestowed the National Medal of Technology and Innovation on a vaccine maker that allegedly hid a child’s death in a COVID-19 clinical trial from Americans, and the Food and Drug Administration may have known about the purported subterfuge.
Moderna apparently only disclosed the death from “cardio-respiratory arrest,” which it asserted without evidence was not related to the child’s jab, in the European Union Clinical Trials Register Sept. 30, six months after its trial on “healthy children” 6 months-12 years ended, but not in publicly accessible U.S. system ClinicalTrials.gov as legally required.
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A newly updated study concludes that the popular Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok suppresses anti-China content and influences user opinion on the communist country’s human rights record and society, likely manipulating its algorithm.
The study from researchers from Rutgers University and the Network Contagion Research Institute, follows preliminary findings from the group released in August and is now backed by more evidence than before.
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The House on Tuesday passed the “Laken Riley Act” in a bipartisan 264-159 vote.
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The New York appeals court on Tuesday denied President-elect Donald Trump’s attempt to dismiss his sentencing Friday in his hush money case.
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Federal prosecutors are considering filing charges against up to 200 more individuals in connection to the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to the latest data from the U.S. Justice Department released on Monday.
The 200 figure includes about 60 individuals who allegedly assaulted or resisted law enforcement officers during the Capitol riot.
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New York Judge Juan Merchan on Monday rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s legal team’s attempts to delay the sentencing in the former president’s hush money case.
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A federal judge in New York on Monday found former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani in contempt of court for not complying with court orders regarding financial information and assets in the defamation case of two Georgia election workers. Lawyers for former Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss argued last week that Giuliani should be held in contempt for not complying with orders to forfeit certain assets like his World Series rings to help pay the $146 million defamation judgment that was levied against him.
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Justice Juan Merchan on Friday rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s bid to toss out his conviction in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s hush money case.
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Mike Johnson has won the first round of voting for Speaker after two holdouts flipped to back him.
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Mike Johnson appears to have come up short in his bid to remain Speaker of the House, with several Republicans voting for other candidates and no one securing a majority.
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When a Consumer Project Safety commissioner suggested in 2023 that the federal government would consider banning gas stoves over safety concerns, it set off fierce nationwide backlash. While the Energy Department finalized stove efficiency standards, they were watered down from the original proposal and no outright ban ever materialized.
No federal ban on gas stoves materialized, but climate advocates seeking to stop consumers from accessing natural gas have tried a number of state and local efforts to achieve their goals – all with similar results as that on the federal level. Despite more recent losses, they’re looking at trying some other strategies.
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Special counsel Jack Smith on Monday withdrew his appeals request for his Florida classified documents case against President-elect Donald Trump’s co-defendants.
The attorney dropped his appeal against Trump last month after Trump won reelection to the White House, citing a Justice Department policy not to prosecute sitting presidents. Trump will be sworn in next month.
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Proponents of once-dominant COVID-19 views and policy, from the natural origin of SARS-CoV-2 to mandatory lockdowns, remote learning, masking and vaccines, often chose between two strategies to marginalize dissenters.
They flooded medical licensing boards with complaints against doctors such as Minnesota’s Scott Jensen, who faced new investigations from Democratic Gov. Tim Walz’s administration after announcing his candidacy for governor, or sought to destroy their reputations in general, scientific and social media, calling them racist, cold-hearted and “fringe.”
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Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., who next month will begin overseeing the Senate’s most powerful investigative body, says the government’s vaccine safety system is no longer protecting Americans adequately because of conflicts of interest and lack of transparency, and he is vowing to work with the incoming Trump administration to press for sweeping reforms.
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President-elect Donald Trump on Monday endorsed House Speaker Mike Johnson to remain in his post as some conservatives express frustration with his leadership during key budget fights.
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Matthew Graves, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia whose name surfaced in testimony by IRS whistleblowers about political interference in the Hunter Biden tax case, will resign in early January, the Department of Justice confirmed Monday.
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“Can a workplace demand ideological conformity from employees, especially when those employees are expected to represent certain racialized or gendered perspectives?”
That’s the core issue in a reinstated lawsuit by a Filipina-American doctor with black children who alleges a witch hunt by her former Minneapolis public hospital for criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement and critical race theory, calling COVID-19 the “China virus” and categorizing protests against George Floyd’s death as “riots,” according to her lawyer.
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Making Canada the 51st state. Retaking control of the Panama Canal. Buying Greenland. Donald Trump made a series of Christmas pronouncements that legacy media dismissed as classic bravado unworthy of serious consideration, but those who advise the President-elect say there is a more calculating intent behind his recent social media flurry.
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The Anti-Defamation League got a lump of coal in its stocking from a Texas judge known for frustrating a wide range of progressive priorities, from redefining sex to include gender identity in Title IX and Obamacare coverage requirements to “ghost gun” rules and vaccine mandates.
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The recent Starbucks strike that continued into Christmas Eve will spread to even more cities across the United States, says the employee union behind the effort.
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As part of an investigation into possible collusion with climate activists, the House Judiciary Committee has sent letters to 60 U.S.-based asset management companies asking them for information about activities related to their membership with the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero and Net Zero Asset Managers.
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An illegal Guatemalan immigrant on Monday was charged with the murder of a woman whom he allegedly set on fire while aboard a New York City subway this weekend.
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Former Congressman Matt Gaetz challenged the conclusions of a House Ethics Committee investigation on Monday, specifically disputing allegations he paid women for sex.
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The House Ethics Committee gathered evidence that former Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida paid multiple women for sex, including a 17-year-old high school junior, used illegal drugs like cocaine and ecstasy and obstructed efforts by Congress to investigate his conduct, according to a draft of its findings obtained by Just the News.
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The retail giant Big Lots on Thursday announced it was commencing a company-wide “going out of business” sale at all of its locations, marking another major business that went belly-up during President Joe Biden’s administration.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is complying with ongoing investigations into a supervisor who told employees not to help hurricane victims who had Trump signs in front of their homes in Florida, according to reports.
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The House of Representatives’ spending bill, the American Relief Act 2025, failed on Thursday to get a two-thirds majority vote.
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The federal government is protecting the manufacturers of COVID-19 and flu vaccines from product liability for another five years, on the cusp of a new administration likely to aggressively look for vaccine injuries and release its hidden books that Just the News went to court to obtain.
Didn’t hear about it? That’s because the Department of Health and Human Services does not appear to have told the public outside a Dec. 11 Federal Register notice, primarily read by regulated entities, and a generic page buried deep within HHS’s website.
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President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance on Thursday slammed the continuing resolution before Congress and told Republicans to call Democrats’ bluff on a government shutdown.
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The House Administration Oversight Subcommittee and its chairman Barry Loudermilk on Tuesday released an interim report on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, concluding the attack was preventable and also asking for an investigation into former Rep. Liz Cheney for criminally tampering with a witness during the Democrat-led congressional inquiry of the tragedy.
“Based on the evidence obtained by this Subcommittee, numerous federal laws were likely broken by Liz Cheney, the former Vice Chair of the January 6 Select Committee, and these violations should be investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” the report released by the House Administration Oversight Subcommittee and its chairman Barry Loudermilk stated.
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Luigi Mangione, the suspected shooter of the late UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, was indicted by a grand jury in New York on Tuesday on one count of first-degree murder, according to the Manhattan district attorney’s office.
The 26-year-old was arrested at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania on Dec. 9, following a major manhunt. He has been formally charged in Pennsylvania with one count of murder, two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, one count of second-degree possession of a forged document, and one count of third-degree criminal possession of a firearm.
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President-elect Donald Trump said on Monday that he would consider a pardon for New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, who was indicted in September.
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House Administration Committee Chairman Brian Steil said he will refer findings from his ongoing probe into the progressive fundraising platform ActBlue to the incoming Trump Justice Department.
Steil believes the new Attorney General Pam Bondi, if confirmed, will be more than willing to probe the Democratic fundraising powerhouse over allegations it failed to implement sufficient security measures on its platform to prevent illegal foreign monies from flowing into U.S. political campaigns.
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