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The Hill The House approved legislation to avert a government shutdown hours before the deadline Friday, sending the bill to the Senate for consideration after a whirlwind week on Capitol Hill. The chamber voted 366-34-1 in support of the legislation, clearing the two-thirds threshold needed for passage since GOP leadership…
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The Daily Mail UK This is the moment a Saudi doctor who drove through a massive crowd at a German Christmas market, killing at least two and injuring nearly 70 people, was arrested. The driver of the car, reported to be a dark BMW, was arrested following the crash which took place…
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The Hill TikTok filed an emergency appeal at the Supreme Court on Monday seeking to delay a law that would ban the video-sharing platform nationwide if TikTok doesn’t divest from its Chinese parent company. The company’s application asks the court to put the Jan. 19 divest-or-ban deadline on hold until the…
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Axios A new report out from the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), led by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), accuses Amazon of manipulating data on worker injuries and ignoring safety concerns. The online retail giant has faced intense scrutiny in recent years over allegations of unsafe or grueling work conditions. Amazon…
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Breitbart President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly considering privatizing the United States Postal Service (USPS), according to a report from the Washington Post. Three people with knowledge of the matter told the outlet that Trump had been talking with Howard Lutnick, who Trump picked to serve as the Commerce Secretary, about carrying out…
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Fox News ABC News and their top anchor George Stephanopoulos have reached a settlement with Donald Trump in his defamation suit, which will result in the news network paying the president-elect $15 million. The settlement was publicly filed on Saturday, revealing that the two parties have come to an agreement…
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Axios House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi sustained an unspecified injury and was hospitalized during a congressional visit to Luxembourg, her office said Friday. The 84-year-old former speaker is cancelling the rest of her CODEL engagements but “continues to work,” spokesperson Ian Krager said in a statement. Pelosi sustained the injury from…
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Washington Examiner Popular support for President-elect Donald Trump has never been higher, according to a polling group that awarded him a net positive personal rating for the first time. RealClearPolling gave Trump a net approval score of plus-2 percentage points as of Dec. 11, a steep increase from the president-elect’s negative 12.8 rating at…
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Fox News A Florida woman is behind bars after she allegedly threatened a Blue Cross Blue Shield agent during a phone call about a recently denied insurance claim. Polk County jail records show Briana Boston, 42, was charged with threats to conduct a mass shooting or an act of…
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GOV.UK Existing emergency measures banning the sale and supply of puberty-suppressing hormones will be made indefinite, following official advice from medical experts. The Commission on Human Medicines (CHM) has provided independent expert advice that there is currently an unacceptable safety risk in the continued prescription of puberty blockers to children.…
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Politico Donald Trump is expected to be named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” — and to celebrate the unveiling of the cover, the president-elect will ring the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday morning, according to three people familiar with the plans granted anonymity…
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Breitbart A report published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) this week revealed previously unconfirmed information on four eavesdropping facilities in Cuba that China may be utilizing to conduct espionage on the United States. CSIS, a Washington-based think tank, detailed in the report that satellite imagery and open-source…
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Washington Examiner Federal bankruptcy judge Christopher M. Lopez rejected the Onion‘s bid to buy Infowars, the website of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, citing that the auction of the website and the bid lacked transparency and created an uneven playing field. Chicago-based satirical publication, won the auction for the website while backed by the families of the…
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Washington Examiner Police arrested a suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on Monday. Luigi Mangione, 26, was described as a “person of interest” by New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch at a news conference Monday afternoon. She added that Mangione had multiple items on him, including a firearm…
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Breitbart Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that he’s open to the potential deployment of Western troops in Ukraine to guarantee the country´s security as part of a broad effort to end the almost three-year war with Russia. The deployment would be a step toward Ukraine joining NATO, Zelenskyy…
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Axios China is launching an antitrust investigation into AI giant Nvidia, triggering fears of an escalating international dispute entangling one of America’s most vital tech companies. The move may be seen as a retaliation over the U.S. imposing restrictions on the sale of advanced AI chips and technology to…
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New York Post A Manhattan jury has cleared Daniel Penny of criminal wrongdoing in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely on a crowded subway — a caught-on-video killing that sparked fierce debate over the city’s mental health system and crime underground. The panelists acquitted Penny of criminally negligent homicide — which could have put him…
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The Daily Wire A doctor celebrated as “America’s best-known practitioner of youth gender medicine” is being sued for medical negligence by a former patient — a young girl who underwent a gender transition and now feels she was deeply betrayed. Twenty-year-old Kaya Clementine Breen accuses Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy of fast-tracking her attempted…
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The Washington Examiner Republicans killed two measures that would have compelled the House Ethics Committee to release its report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz, but some would be willing to reverse their stance if the former Florida congressman is nominated for another position. “Many of us voted to support the precedent but will feel…
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Breitbart Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) on Thursday, after a groundswell of support for Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth, denied she is behind a campaign on Capitol Hill to tank his nomination and seek the job herself. “I don’t have a campaign against Pete,” she told RealClearPolitics’s White House correspondent Philip Wegmann, adding…
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Axios The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday announced a federal order that the country’s milk supply be tested for bird flu. The sluggish federal response to the H5N1 bird flu outbreak has alarmed researchers, especially with new findings that the virus is one mutation away from being able to more efficiently affect humans.…
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The Economist JOHANNA OLSON-KENNEDY is among the most celebrated youth gender medicine clinicians in the world. She has been the Medical Director of the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), one of the first high-profile American youth gender clinics and presently the largest, since…
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Breitbart Several top Veterans Affairs officials in Tennessee resigned as an internal investigation and a broader congressional probe into alleged sexual misconduct intensified, Breitbart News has learned. Congressional investigators discovered that one man who resigned, whose name they would not tell Breitbart News but sources familiar say was a…
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The Hill The Biden administration issued new restrictions Monday on exports of certain semiconductor chips and equipment to China, marking the Biden administration’s latest crackdown to curb the country’s competitive advancements in chipmaking. The new export controls place more than 100 Chinese chipmaking tool manufacturers on a restricted trade list, prohibiting…
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Politico A House staffer was arrested Monday morning for entering the Cannon House Office Building with ammunition, according to a statement from the US Capitol Police. Capitol Police said the staffer is Michael Hopkins, who is the communications director for Rep. Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.). “USCP officers noticed what appeared…
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Axios President Biden is facing a steady trickle of condemnation from members of his own party for issuing a pardon of his son Hunter over the weekend. The pardon is already having downstream political ramifications for Democrats as Republicans try to tie them to it. Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), an incoming…
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New York Post Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is willing to hand over territory to Russia in exchange for NATO protection if it means ending the war. “If we want to stop the hot stage of the war, we should take under [the] NATO umbrella the territory of Ukraine that…
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Washington Examiner In a landmark decision for the United Kingdom, British lawmakers have voted in favor of a bill that will allow terminally ill adults to end their lives with assistance in England and Wales. Friday’s decision came after an emotionally and impassioned debate that resulted in the bill…
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Breitbart The small rural Canadian township of Emo (population 1,333) is being ordered by the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal to pay damages after failing to proclaim Pride Month as instructed back in 2020. CBC News reports Borderland Pride tasked Emo with the job of declaring June as Pride Month and ordered municipal…
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Yahoo Coffee futures extended their rampant rally to the highest in more than four decades in New York on global supply worries, threatening to further raise costs for consumers. Arabica beans — the variety favored for specialty brews — climbed as much as 3.9%, hitting the highest since 1977.…
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Axios With votes still being counted in the 2024 election, at least two dozen ambitious House members are already sizing up runs for higher office in 2026, Axios has learned. This extraordinarily large cohort could cause all kinds of headaches for House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) as they…
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Washington Examiner Half of voters aged 18-29 have a positive view of the Republican Party compared to 35% who have an unfavorable view, a massive shift from previous years. The youth vote has long been considered a bastion of Democratic support, with Democratic strategists frequently theorizing before this past election that…
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Breitbart Construction bosses based primarily in Texas are complaining that President-Elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance will stop them from hiring and continuing to employ hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens in industry jobs. Trump and Vance have vowed to carry out the nation’s largest deportation program…
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Axios President-elect Trump is expected to appoint ultra loyalist Kash Patel to a high-profile position at either the FBI or the Justice Department, top transition sources tell Axios. Patel would be a deeply controversial pick for any leadership role, especially FBI director. Given the hurdles Patel might face winning Senate confirmation, Trump is…
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New York Post Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor announced Monday he plans to resign from his post next month to make way for President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the powerful office. Damian Williams said he would step down as US attorney for the Southern District of New York on Dec. 13 –…
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CBS News Service workers at Charlotte Douglas International Airport have gone on strike during a busy week of Thanksgiving travel to protest what they say are unlivable wages. Employees of ABM and Prospect Airport Services cast ballots Friday to authorize the work stoppage in North Carolina, which a spokesperson…
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Washington Examiner President-elect Donald Trump is backing Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis to replace former Rep. Matt Gaetz in the next Congress. Trump shared his endorsement of Patronis on Truth Social, calling him a “wonderful friend” to him and MAGA. “As your next congressman, Jimmy would work tirelessly alongside of me to Grow our…
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Washington Examiner The California Legislative Analyst’s Office projected a dismal fiscal outlook for the Golden State as Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is anticipated to pour millions of dollars into fighting the Trump administration. The non-partisan budget watchdog released an analysis this week showing that while the state has managed to reduce its budget…
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The Hill Texas gave final approval Friday to optional biblical lesson plans for kindergarten through 5th grade classes in state public schools. The State Board of Education voted 8-7 to allow lessons on topics such as Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount and the Last Supper, structured by the state-created Bluebonnet…
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CNN Former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, who withdrew from consideration as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general on Thursday, said Friday he will not be returning to Congress next year. “I’m still going to be in the fight, but it’s going to be from a new perch. I do not intend…
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Wall Street Journal Our nation was founded on the basic idea that the people we elect run the government. That isn’t how America functions today. Most legal edicts aren’t laws enacted by Congress but “rules and regulations” promulgated by unelected bureaucrats—tens of thousands of them each year. Most government enforcement…
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Breitbart The chances that President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees are confirmed by the Senate are quite good, according to Jeff Greenfield, a contributing writer at Politico Magazine. Greenfield’s opinion contradicts the mainstream media’s narrative on the confirmation chances of Pete Hegseth, Matt Gaetz, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Big media outlets have been claiming…
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Washington Examiner One of the first actions that President-elect Donald Trump could take come Jan. 20, 2025, is rescinding the Biden administration’s ban on the term “illegal alien.” Advisers to Trump’s transition team on homeland security matters told the Washington Examiner this week that there have already been discussions on doing away with the Biden…
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Center for Immigration Studies With President-Elect Trump promising a “mass deportation” program for aliens here illegally, Canada is bracing for a surge of third-country migrants headed north. Expect the “world’s longest undefended border” to soon be a little more defended, as a migrant surge would likely imperil the electoral prospects of…
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The Associated Press Danish lawmakers on Monday agreed on a deal to plant 1 billion trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest and natural habitats over the next two decades in an effort to reduce fertilizer usage. The government called the agreement “the biggest change to the Danish…
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Axios After years of wondering why there was a disconnect between how Americans feel about the economy (bad) and the actual state of the economy (pretty good), we may have the answer — it was politics all along. If politics is the main driver of consumer sentiment, then it’s no longer nearly as…
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The Hill India has overtaken China as the top source of international students for U.S. colleges, according to a report from Open Doors. For the 2023-2024 school year, India saw a massive 23 percent increase in the number of college students sent to America, up to 331,602. China,…
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Inside EVs Engineering breakthroughs and improved chassis designs have made cars structurally safer than ever. Cars nowadays come loaded with standard safety features like multiple airbags, advanced cameras and sensors that can monitor surroundings and step in during emergencies. However, a new report highlights a troubling trend: rising levels…
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The Hill Nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults are considered overweight or obese, according to new research published Thursday from The Lancet. The research points to a substantial increase in overweight and obese adults in the last 30 years as well as an especially large increase in adolescents aged 5-24, with…
Read MoreAxios House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Friday conceded what he said was a “bitterly disappointing” 2024 election loss. The AP called the House for Republicans on Wednesday, securing President-elect Trump’s total control of Congress. Democrats have been engaged in an intra-party blame game since Nov. 5. “The American people have spoken…
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