The Biden administration announced on Tuesday that it will remove Cuba from the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism (SST) in exchange for the release of political prisoners. The Trump administration previously placed the SST designation on Cuba in the last week of the president-elect’s first term, and Biden officials said they are in contact […]
CNN’s Manju Raju predicted President-elect Trump’s Cabinet nominees will cruise through the confirmation process. Raju’s colleague Jim Acosta kicked off a segment on Monday morning by noting that “13 of President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet picks will be on Capitol Hill this week for their confirmation hearings before the Senate,” including Secretary of Defense-designate Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State-designate Marco Rubio. “Manu, […]
Virginia Republicans announced their top priorities for the new year, with curbing fentanyl deaths among them. Under current case law, it is difficult to charge a drug dealer with the murder of a user who died from fentanyl they had purchased unless they are in the proximity of that dealer, according to GOP legislators. State […]
United States Capitol Police have identified the man arrested Wednesday after allegedly trying to light a car on fire while President-elect Donald Trump was paying his respects to former President Jimmy Carter, who was lying in state at the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C. Virginia man Adrian J. Hinton, 35, is the suspect, police announced on […]
President-elect Trump ramped up his calls for the U.S. to take ownership of Greenland in an amusing social media post on Monday. Trump’s message comes as his son Don Jr. is personally traveling to Greenland on Tuesday but is not expected to meet with any government officials. In a Truth Social post, President-elect Trump said that he […]
On Monday afternoon, lawmakers convened on snow-covered Capitol Hill to officially certify Donald Trump’s 2024 election victory. Trump captured the presidency with 312 electoral votes to Harris’s 226 — a total that was confirmed during the certification on Monday, marking the final step in the election process before Trump formally takes back the White House […]
On Friday, Congressional lawmakers convened to elect the next Speaker of the House. Mike Johnson (R-La.) will serve as Speaker of the House for the 119th Congress. With the Republican majority at 219-215, Johnson could lose only one Republican vote to remain speaker. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) was reelected to the top post in the […]
A step in the right direction… Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) signaled during an interview on Sunday that he is open to voting to confirm some of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees. Kim made the remarks during a Sunday interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” with Dana Bash when asked if he would be open to […]
Federal agents uncovered a disturbing discovery in a Virginia home… The FBI found the largest hoard of homemade explosive devices in the agency’s history last month in Virginia. Brad Spafford was taken into custody on Dec. 17 at his farm outside of Norfolk, Virginia, on a single-count criminal complaint that accused him of failing to […]
