President-elect Donald Trump has named billionaire investment banker Warren Stephens as his envoy to Britain, a prestigious posting for the Republican donor whose contributions this year included $2 million to a Trump-backing super PAC. Trump, in a post on his Truth Social site Monday evening, announced he was selecting Stephens to be the US ambassador to … Read more
ATLANTA — Already reeling from their November defeats, Democrats now are grappling with President Joe Biden’s pardoning of his son for federal crimes after the party spent years slamming Donald Trump as a threat to democracy who disregarded the law. The president pardoned Hunter Biden late Sunday evening, reversing his previous pledges with a grant … Read more
It would appear that Cheryl Hines is standing by her man, and that man, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is nude, because she’s doing that standing outside their shower. The former Curb Your Enthusiasm star has taken her husband’s recent nomination to head the Department of Health and Human Services. and made marketing lemonade, using Kennedy’s … Read more
The White House is working on a ceasefire and hostage release deal in Gaza but is “not there yet,” the US National Security Advisor told NBC on Sunday, with fighting in the conflict raging on as regional leaders meet to discuss the crisis. “We are working actively to try to make it happen. We are … Read more
President-elect Donald Trump tapped his son-in-law Jared Kushner’s dad, Charles Kushner, as the incoming ambassador to France on Saturday—a key role in managing the fraught relationship between Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron. Kushner, an infamous figure in New Jersey, is a wealthy real estate executive who was convicted and imprisoned in 2005 after pleading … Read more
“Everybody’s exhausted and he hasn’t even taken office yet,” Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent for The New York Times, says of White House reporters already consumed by covering a second Donald Trump administration. With no time for a break, the grueling 2024 election cycle quickly morphed into a tumultuous transition period characteristic of Trump’s … Read more
By AAMER MADHANI WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration is urging Ukraine to quickly increase the size of its military by drafting more troops and revamping its mobilization laws to allow for the conscription of those as young as 18. A senior Biden administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss … Read more
Karoline Leavitt has already made history in her position with President Elect Donald Trump’s administration, the recent announcement of her appointment cementing her as the youngest White House press secretary in history at 27 years old. But if Trump’s second term in office is anything like his first, riddled with inter-office maneuvering and grudge-holding that … Read more
Right now we are in the wilderness, an uneasy time between the end of Joe Biden’s term and the start of the second Donald Trump presidency. None of us knows exactly how an emboldened Trump will govern, or if Republican senators will take their role to advise and consent seriously. But we can glean quite … Read more
First Lady Jill Biden has taken a symbolic stand in the eternal debate over when it’s appropriate to put up Christmas decorations. This year is her final Christmas in the White House before the Trump family moves back in and Melania Trump again has her jolly way with pretending she “gives a fuck about the … Read more
