President-elect Trump chose former ambassador and Rep. Pete Hoekstra for his pick for the U.S. ambassador to Canada. ‘Pete is well-respected in the Great State of Michigan – A State we won sizably. He represented…
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An effort by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., to block certain U.S. weapons sales to Israel was overwhelmingly rejected by the U.S. Senate Wednesday evening. Sanders’ joint resolution of disapproval, which was supported by Sen. Chris…
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The House Ethics Committee has not reached an agreement to release its report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., the panel’s chairman told reporters on Wednesday. The bipartisan panel met behind closed doors for over…
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Senate Republicans are preparing to probe Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on his pro-choice stance after the former presidential candidate was selected by President-elect Trump to be his nominee to head the Department of Health and…
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Speaker Johnson announces new Capitol bathroom policy in response to controversy over trans House member
House Speaker Mike Johnson announced a new bathroom policy for the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday in response to controversy related to transgender Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, D-Del. ‘All single-sex facilities in the Capitol and House Office…
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Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C, on Wednesday urged his Republican colleagues not to form a ‘lynch mob’ to block President-elect Trump’s controversial choice of Matt Gaetz to be U.S. attorney general. Neither should the GOP-controlled Senate…
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Iran has increased its nearly weapons-grade uranium, a United Nations watchdog found, defying international demands to rein in its nuclear program. Iran now has enough uranium at 60% purity, just below the 90% purity needed…
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President-elect Trump on Wednesday tapped former Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker to become U.S. ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in his new administration. Trump described Whitaker, who is from Iowa, as ‘a…
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Fox News that his country ‘cannot legally acknowledge any occupied territory of Ukraine as Russian,’ when asked if he was willing to cede land as part of a peace deal. …
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How many? And how fast? That’s the question for the Senate in early January as it will sprint to confirm as many of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees as possible. Senators cannot do much right now…