WASHINGTON (AA) – House Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday urged the Ethics Committee not to release its investigation into former Congressman Matt Gaetz. “I’m going to strongly request that the Ethics Committee not issue the report, because that is not the way we do things in the House,” Johnson said, according to the medi...
With just days before Republicans regain control of the Senate, Democrats are urgently working to confirm President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees. On Tuesday, the Senate approved April Perry as a U.S. district court judge in Illinois, the first judicial confirmation since Trump’s election win. Biden has 16 nominees already reviewed by the Judi...
President-elect Donald Trump has appointed former Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard as the new U.S. intelligence chief. “For over two decades, Tulsi has fought for our Country and the Freedoms of all Americans,” Trump wrote in a statement. “As a former Candidate for the Democrat Presidential Nomination, she has broad su...
In a landmark decision, a U.S. jury has awarded $42 million to three former detainees of Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison. The jury held military contractor CACI liable for its role in prisoner abuse nearly 20 years ago. It awarded plaintiffs Suhail Al Shimari, Salah Al-Ejaili and Asa’ad Al-Zubae $3 million each in compensatory damages and...
President-elect Donald Trump has appointed staunchly anti-immigrant Stephen Miller his deputy chief of staff for policy. Miller was responsible for the Muslim travel ban and the separation of migrant families during Trump’s first term in office. The New York Times says his role “is expected to be vast and to far exceed what the eventual [&he...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump has selected Rep. Mike Waltz as his national security adviser, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Citing people familiar with the matter, the Journal said Trump asked the Florida congressman, a Green Beret veteran who served in Afghanistan, the Middle East and Africa, to assume the rol...
A wave of racist text messages has been condemned by officials and universities across the U.S. The messages, which started appearing on Wednesday, were sent to Black residents in at least 32 states and in the nation’s capital. At least 26 schools have reported receiving the racist messages. The texts included offensive language, claiming reci...
ISTANBUL (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump announced late Sunday that the former acting director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Tom Homan will serve as his administration’s “border czar.” “I am pleased to announce that the Former ICE Director, and stalwart on Border Control, Tom Homan, will be joining...
ISTANBUL (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump announced Saturday that Nikki Haley, former US ambassador to the UN, will not join his new administration. Haley served in Trump’s first term and later ran against him in the Republican Party’s nomination process for president. Trump also said Mike Pompeo, who was secretary of state and CIA di...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump has won Nevada, one of seven swing states, The Associated Press reported on Saturday. Trump secured six electoral votes in the battleground Western state. He also won other key swing states, including North Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan. The outcome in the Southwes...
