Year: 2025
January 09, 2025
Congress
What we’re watching: Trump attends Carter’s funeral
🗓️ What we're watching As congressional Republicans look to President-elect Donald Trump to decide how to enact his legislative agenda, he’s instead punting the decision back to them. Trump...
January 09, 2025
Politics
How the ‘Biden brand’ was used to rake $30 million for Joe and the first family, detailed in James Comer’s book
A Congressional probe led by James Comer found 170 suspicious bank transactions for the Bidens filed with the Department of the Treasury. A Congressional probe led by James Comer...
January 09, 2025
Congress
Alito confirms phone call with Trump — but says they didn’t discuss Supreme Court cases
Justice Samuel Alito confirmed he spoke Tuesday with President-elect Donald Trump but insisted the conversation revolved around his former law clerk seeking a job in the incoming Trump administration...
January 09, 2025
Politics
Virginia man arrested after trying to set car on fire outside the Capitol as Trump paid respects to Jimmy Carter and met with GOP senators
The disturbing incident unfolded in front of the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial just before 5:30 p.m. – at the same time Trump, 78, was arriving at the Capitol Building. ...
January 09, 2025
Politics
Senate Dems receive secret testimony from disgruntled ex-employee of veterans group ahead of Pete Hegseth confirmation hearings: report
A 2014 performance review obtained by the Washington Free Beacon shows that Kat Dugan, a former state director at Concerned Veterans for America, received poor marks at the organization...
January 09, 2025
Politics
Biden cancels Italy trip over the raging Los Angeles wildfires
Biden, 82, had been planning to head to Rome Thursday immediately following the Washington, DC, funeral for the late former President Jimmy Carter. Biden, 82, had been planning to...
January 09, 2025
Congress
Senate Judiciary Committee schedules Bondi confirmation hearings
The Senate Judiciary Committee has officially slotted two days for confirmation hearings for President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, Pam Bondi. The former Florida attorney general who served...
January 09, 2025
Congress
Dem support of immigration bill latest sign of vanishing Trump resistance
"There almost is a level of resignation it seems," said one former adviser.
January 09, 2025
Congress
Trump sounds off on LA fires, Greenland and the border as he emerges from Hill talks on his legislative agenda
President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday that the wildfires ripping through the Los Angeles region were “a true tragedy” and blamed the disaster in part on the state’s Democratic governor....
January 09, 2025
Congress
Heinrich urges Lee to delay hearing for Trump’s Energy nominee
Senate Energy and Natural Resources ranking member Martin Heinrich is warning Chair Mike Lee to wait to schedule a confirmation hearing for Chris Wright, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for...