Senate Dems rail against ‘shadow speaker’ billionaire Elon Musk: ‘Not elected to anything’
Senate Democrats labeled billionaire Elon Musk ‘co-president’ and ‘shadow speaker’ among other titles as they reacted to the original stopgap spending deal’s implosion on Wednesday after he and ultimately President-elect Trump came out against it. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said Musk
Biden missing in action as Turkey inches closer to full-blown war against US-allied Kurds in Syria
JERUSALEM — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan could be on the brink of engulfing Syria in a new war with his slated invasion of the country’s north in an effort to decimate the U.S.-allied Syrian Kurds who helped President-elect Trump defeat
White House pressed on Biden refusing to speak publicly ahead of shutdown
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre volleyed away reporters’ questions on Friday about President Biden’s lack of public appearances amid the ongoing government funding fight as a partial shutdown looms. Jean-Pierre refused to answer why the president has not spoken to
House vote imminent on plan to avert government shutdown
House lawmakers will soon vote on a bill to avert a partial government shutdown after a similar measure backed by President-elect Trump failed Thursday. Congress is scrambling for a path forward as the clock ticks closer to the federal funding deadline,
Starbucks union announces strike to last through Christmas Eve in 3 major cities
Love Starbucks holiday drinks? This week, you may not get them. Starbucks Workers United announced baristas will strike starting Friday in three key markets — Seattle, Los Angeles and Chicago. The union said the move is in response to the coffee
OpenAI is done with Shipmas and staring down daunting challenges for 2025
OpenAI’s “12 Days of Shipmas,” which wrapped up on Friday, brought a sense of levity to end the year. The marketing blitz served as a way for the high-profile and controversial AI startup to show it can release an extensive
Trump transfers all his DJT shares to his revocable trust, SEC filings show
President-elect Donald Trump this week transferred his entire stake of shares in Trump Media to a revocable trust of which he is the sole beneficiary, regulatory filings revealed Thursday evening. Trump did not receive any money for the gift of his 114,750,000 shares of Trump Media stock to the Donald J.
Top Senate Dems pour cold water on latest GOP spending bill plans: ‘Ready to stay’ through Christmas
Top Senate Democrats Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., made clear they only intend to move forward on the original stopgap spending bill plan that Republicans scrapped after pressure from billionaire Elon Musk
DAVID MARCUS: Saving America from bad spending bills is exactly why Trump tapped Musk.
It was former President Obama who famously quipped that ‘elections have consequences,’ and one of the consequences of the 2024 election is that President-elect Donald Trump asked Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to help him straighten out the government’s books. Now,
House Weaponization panel releases 17,000-page report exposing ‘two-tiered system of government’
The House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government released a more than 17,000-page report detailing its work this Congress, touting their success in protecting Americans against censorship of speech and the weaponization of federal law enforcement