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Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio to face questions from his colleagues on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at his confirmation hearing for secretary of state Wednesday.
Against long odds and in the face of exclusionary casting, Anna May Wong bequeathed us an extraordinary cinematic legacy.
The Iowa Republican’s decision dramatically increases the likelihood that Mr. Hegseth will have enough votes to be confirmed as President-elect Donald J. Trump’s defense secretary.
The president-elect would rather Jack Smith’s report never sees the light of day. Luckily for him, he has an ally.
If confirmed, Mr. Vought will be at the center of President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to upend the federal bureaucracy.
Vice President Kamala Harris, a former US senator from California who previously served as the state's attorney general, could be the first Black woman and Asian American to lead a major party ticket after receiving President Joe Biden's support t…
Donald Trump being prevented from running again reportedly hasn't stopped the president-elect from stockpiling a large amount of money from donations.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
The country knew what Jack Smith was trying to accomplish, and a winning margin of the voters put an end to it on Election Day.
Notions of injury or exclusion are often based on shifting cultural sensitivities and political pressures, rather than on any permanent, universal measure of good and evil.
Tens of millions of American Christians are embracing a charismatic movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation, which seeks to destroy the secular state.
A decade of live television sharpened Pete Hegseth so much so that even Senate Democrats acknowledged his ability to mobilize the talking point during a confirmation hearing before the Armed Services Committee, marking another battle in an ongoing…
Rep. Troy Nehls of Texas is introducing legislation to raise taxes on private university endowment profits to be in line with the corporate tax rate.
Donald Trump's pick for attorney general, Pam Bondi, will face a Senate panel on Wednesday where Democrats are expected to question her about the president-elect's comments on using the Justice Department against political opponents. Bondi, 59, se…
Automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics are set to redefine the relationship between labour, capital, and production.
The Supreme Court is set Wednesday to hear a challenge on free speech grounds to a Texas law that requires pornographic websites to verify the age of users in a case testing the legality of state efforts to keep minors from viewing such material o…
Please answer one simple question. Which of the following does the United States currently possess? (A) An adequate intelligence service. (B) An adequate diplomatic corps. (C) An adequate military. (D) None of the above.
Some liberals are stocking up on and freeze-drying food—and say that others should be too.
The Senate confirmation hearing for Department of Homeland Security nominee Kristi Noem was postponed two days over a delay in the South Dakota governor's FBI background check, according to reports.
Jonathan Kay speaks with University of Southern California scholar William Deverell about what he calls the ‘new fire regime in the American West.’
President Biden released a farewell letter Wednesday, saying that “It has been the privilege of my life to serve this nation for over 50 years."
Climate change makes fires more dangerous. Government competence matters. And preventing catastrophic fires requires expensive, unpopular measures.
Joe Biden will undoubtedly paint a picture of a successful tenure as president. But I won't be fooled - and neither should other Americans.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered flags at state buildings to be at full-staff for President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on Jan. 20 despite a 30-day mourning for former President Jimmy Carter.
FIRST ON FOX: The House Oversight Committee found that prolonged pandemic-era telework has been “detrimental" to government agencies and new employee training.
If the American Historical Association formally adopts a resolution accusing Israel of “scholasticide,” it could destroy the organisation’s reputation for serious scholarship.
The new Democrat mayor of Portland, Oregon, is requiring hundreds of non-union city employees to begin working in person full-time starting this spring.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn reportedly told people that she will likely mount a gubernatorial bid.
Advisers to President-elect Donald Trump now concede the Ukraine war will take months or even longer to resolve, a sharp reality check on his biggest foreign policy promise to strike a peace deal on his first day in the White House.
Joe Biden wanted to "restore the soul" of the country and prove Donald Trump was only a footnote in the American story, not its next chapter. It failed, like his presidency and his Afghanistan withdrawal and the foreign policy disasters that led t…
Trump's attorney general pick, Pam Bondi, to face questioning from the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.
Look closely at almost anything and you'll find data—lots of it. But what are those numbers really saying about who we are and what we believe? Harry Enten is on a mission to find out.
In a hearing that stretched more than four hours, Democrats pressed Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick for defense secretary, on numerous allegations of misconduct, his views about women in combat and his ability to lead the depa…
President Joe Biden's federal student loan forgiveness program, which promises to deliver up to $20,000 of debt relief for millions of borrowers, is on hold indefinitely as legal challenges work their way through the courts.
The Senate is accelerating the confirmation process Wednesday for President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet choices, scheduling half a dozen hearings.
Recordings from a recent Brock University faculty union meeting illustrate the tactics that anti-Israel activists use to co-opt ostensibly neutral academic institutions.
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The epic incompetence of LA Mayor Karen Bass is plain a and if we want an equal society, that means equality of blame, as well as of praise.
Maryland Democrat Gov. Wes Moore signaled Tuesday that he was willing to move out of lockstep with the Democrat establishment and work with President-elect Donald Trump."I'm not the leader of the resistance," Moore told CNN's Jake Tapper. "I'm the…
President Joe Biden enacted a series of roadblocks to Donald Trump's agenda to slow down the president-elect in his first days in the White House, despite his public promise to cooperate.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
The way to deal with the bombast is by turning it against a leader who leads a movement that is actually deeply divided.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Gov. Phil Murphy (D) said his state will begin stockpiling mifepristone “in light of the anti-choice policies supported by” Republican majorities in Congress.
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s threat to take back the Panama Canal may be posturing, but it could dampen the Panamanian government’s wish to broaden relations with the United States, analysts say.
President Joe Biden will cap his half-century political career Wednesday with a final Oval Office speech, hoping to cement a legacy that has been overshadowed by Democrats' failure to stop Donald Trump from returning to the White House.
The atrocities committed by the Assad regime were no secret—but they were met with Western inaction.
The Biden administration managed to rack up a long list of major legislative wins in its first two years despite facing one of the most closely-divided Congresses in history. From bipartisan action on infrastructure, gun safety and same-sex marria…
The Democratic incumbent got more votes. Now the Republican challenger is trying to throw out tens of thousands of them.
Child care, housing costs and public safety were the New York governor’s top issues as she outlined her policy plans for the year and for a re-election fight in 2026.
The president has issued policy decisions in a number of areas in the final days of his term, including environmental justice, prison reform and immigration.
The coalition collapse that doomed Biden follows a grim precedent set by another Democratic leader: Jimmy Carter.
At Tuesday’s confirmation hearing, the defense-secretary nominee looked like a man who understood that the fix was in.
Experts who spoke to Fox News Digital warned that President Biden's ban on offshore drilling could do more harm than good to the environment and human rights.
Republican lawmakers are exploring reforms to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) to better support disaster victims, including those affected by California's wildfires, The Hill reported.
The president has sought to portray his administration as transformative, but his speech on Wednesday night comes amid a backdrop in which he is not leaving on his own terms.
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, told Newsmax on Tuesday it was "poor form" for Vice President Kamala Harris not to extend the customary invitation to the family of Vice President-elect J.D. Vance and his family to tour their future home - the Naval Obser…
Sean Duffy, a Fox News host and former Wisconsin congressmen, would oversee a sprawling Transportation Department that oversees aviation, rail and transit.
Societies that scapegoat foreign powers for domestic problems erode their ability to solve those problems.
The Justice Department now enters a second Trump administration with less authority to pursue a president than it has had in half a century.
Southern California is no stranger to fires. But the dreadful blazes that began yesterday are potentially transformative.
Transactionalism is Trump’s secret weapon.
The 1999 Macpherson report made police forces terrified of accusations of racism.
Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema decided to shake up the political world on Friday by becoming an independent. The former Democrat is still caucusing with the party in the Senate, so the Democratic caucus still has 51 members. Now, instead of 49 Democr…
How Alexis de Tocqueville foretold the rise of victimhood culture.
Zuckerberg, Musk and Bezos are falling over themselves to suck up to the incoming president. And he's just as keen to let them, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
Donald Trump’s pick for the agency’s director seems likely to win some Democratic support for this nomination, but how much is unclear.
Sen. Blumenthal grilled SecDef nominee Pete Hegseth on his qualifications despite reaffirming current support for the job SecDef Lloyd Austin has done.
Fareed explains why AI's massive energy demands are straining the power grid, but also why AI could enable big breakthroughs in sustainability and clean energy.
Donald Trump’s defenders have little choice but to cast his trolling as a clever geopolitical stratagem.
Pam Bondi, a former Florida attorney general, will be asked if she can stand up to Donald Trump, who has made it clear that he wants the government’s top lawyer to execute his commands.
Zoe interviews her colleague Jonathan Kay, who once ghostwrote for Trudeau, about his time working with the Canadian soon-to-be ex-Prime Minister.
A Florida state lawmaker has introduced a bill to ban illegal migrants from being admitted to public colleges and universities with an acceptance rate under 85%.
President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name Ross Worthington as his head speechwriter at the White House, three people with knowledge of the situation told Politico.
Liberty Energy CEO Chris Wright, Trump's energy secretary nominee, is to outline his vision for American "energy dominance" at Senate confirmation hearing.
Lying is a prerequisite for securing a Trump appointment.
Senator Marco Rubio, who is nominated for secretary of state, has a long history of personal and policy differences with President-elect Donald Trump.
Withholding natural disaster aid to force policy changes is unusual and would mark a major escalation in Republicans’ feuds with blue states.
In the wake of the Republican National Convention earlier this month, Fareed speaks with historian Niall Ferguson about how and why the modern-day GOP has changed since the Reagan era of the 1980s.
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti, optimistic after a Kentucky court ruling reversing Biden's Title IX, eyes potential success in his Supreme Court gender case.
In the 24th instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes how British adventurers briefly seized Quebec and Acadia following the Anglo-French War of 1627–29.
It’s very hard to extinguish a fire under these conditions.
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