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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Sunday endorsed lawmaker Rick Scott for Senate majority leader, joining a growing list of MAGA figures who are throwing their support behind the Florida Republican. "Rick Scott for Senate Majority Leader!" Musk wrote in a post on X Sunday afternoon, days after Republicans won back control of the Senate on Election Day. Musk’s post came in response to a post from Scott, who was responding to President-elect Trump’s demand that "Any Republican Senator seeking the coveted LEADERSHIP position in the United States Senate must agree to Recess Appointments (in the Senate!), without which we will...

A company is offering a four-year-long cruise for customers looking to escape the upcoming Donald Trump presidency. Villa Vie Residences, based in Florida, announced the new 'Skip Forward' excursions this past Thursday - hours after Trump's second stint in office was solidified with an electoral win. Aside from spanning years, the journey will take ticketholders to all seven continents - with an Antarctic sail-by and an eight day trip down the Amazon River. If four years seems a bit too long, the company also offers one-, two-, and three-year packages - distinguished by names like 'Escape from Reality' and 'Everywhere...

One of deep-blue Chicago’s 50 wards voted heavily for President-elect Donald Trump in 2024, but the area was not the only pocket of voters to favor the Republican nominee for president on Election Day. According to a look at the voting data assembled by Chicagoan Frank Calabrese, the 41st Ward in Chicago’s upper west side was truly MAGA country after a majority pulled the lever for a Republican presidential candidate for the first time since 1992. Interestingly, it turns out the 41st Ward is one of the most popular parts of the city for Chicago Police officers to live. But...

Republican state Rep. Gabe Evans has unseated Democratic U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo in Colorado’s highly competitive 8th Congressional District, a win that represents the biggest victory for the GOP in Colorado since 2014. Evans was leading Caraveo with 49% of the vote to her 48% at 3:15 p.m. on Sunday when Caraveo conceded. They were separated by about 2,500 votes. “It’s been the honor of a lifetime to serve the people of Colorado’s 8th District,” Caraveo, a pediatrician and former state lawmaker, said in a written statement. “While this isn’t the outcome we had hoped for, the work is not...

We need to remember and never forget these are the people who intentionally amped up the violent lunatics out here using their corrupt vicious state media. They chanted Trump evil, Trump bad, Trump Hitler, Trump racist, Trump supporter's racist trash! And the violent psychopaths and assorted extremist came out of the woodwork gunning for Trump and anyone with a Trump hat. Trump nearly had his head blown off, leaving one of his supporters dead and others shot up badly. Some of these people now say we all need to come together. The same people again who think tens of thousands...

Democratic governors are signaling their willingness to defy the new Trump administration, vowing to protect freedoms in their states and to wage legal and political battle if the president-elect follows through with controversial proposals. California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said the Golden State is “ready to fight” and called a special section of the state Legislature after Trump’s win. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) promised that if “you come for my people, you come through me.” In Massachusetts, Gov. Maura Healey (D) pledged her state’s law enforcement will not assist the Trump administration if it goes through with mass deportation...

San Francisco 49ers star Nick Bosa changed his post-sack routine on Sunday to make an ode to president-elect Donald Trump. After Bosa sacked Baker Mayfield in the fourth quarter of the 49ers’ 23-20 win over the Buccaneers, Bosa did not do his typical shrug, but rather a version of Trump’s signature dance move (where he pumps his arms out alternately while otherwise slightly shifting in place). Fox didn’t show a full video of the sack celebration on their broadcast, but a fan video from inside the stadium showed the full Bosa dance, which conservatives on social media quickly claimed as...

Donald Trump’s remarkable election victory has been rightly attributed to the long shadow of inflation combined with mass illegal immigration across the southern border. While these factors dominated the national swing, an under-discussed element of the Republican campaign was the relentless targeting of voters in swing states with paid advertising linking Kamala Harris to radical trans ideology. Why was this – and what lessons should be drawn for Labour in the UK? The ads were simple. Their tagline: ‘Kamala Harris is for they/them. President Trump is for you.’ They showed clips of her, from 2019, pledging her support for sex-change...

With Biden leaving office in January and all of the embedded Obama staffers going with him, it's hard to believe a shadow government won't be formed. This with the full cooperation of the State Department, all intelligence agencies and the Pentagon. There will be back door communication with all our enemies, including UK, France, Iran, etc... Subject for discussion: What can Trump do about this? Is there a precedent?

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Sunday endorsed lawmaker Rick Scott for Senate majority leader, joining a growing list of MAGA figures who are throwing their support behind the Florida Republican. "Rick Scott for Senate Majority Leader!" Musk wrote in a post on X Sunday afternoon, days after Republicans won back control of the Senate on Election Day. Musk’s post came in response to a post from Scott, who was responding to President-elect Trump’s demand that "Any Republican Senator seeking the coveted LEADERSHIP position in the United States Senate must agree to Recess Appointments (in the Senate!), without which we will...

Allies of President-elect Donald Trump showed their support on social media on Sunday for Senator Rick Scott, a Florida Republican, to be the next Senate majority leader. -snip- Scott, a Trump-backed candidate who was elected for a second term this week, reiterated his intent and belief that he will be the next Senate majority leader on Wednesday, telling Fox News, "I'm going to win." "I've been talking to my Republican colleagues, guess what. They want change," Scott said. "They know that Trump has a mandate, they want to be part of that mandate. They want to be treated as equals."...

JD Vance will be the first Marine in history to be Vice President of the United States.

A social media post from Kamala Harris’ niece has shed some light on what the vice president’s life is looking like after losing the presidential election to Donald Trump. The new photographs, shared by Meena Harris on Saturday, show the Democratic nominee sitting cross-legged on the ground playing Connect 4 with her two great-nieces while enjoying a glass of white wine. “Back to where it all began only a few months ago. My eternal gratitude to everyone who showed up. We love her so much,” Meena Harris wrote.

Lindy Li, who sits on the Democratic National Committee finance committee, raked Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign over the coals, branding it a “$1 billion disaster” and called for accountability after President-elect Donald Trump’s victory, Li at one point dropped an f-bomb during her television hit while venting that President Biden’s late-stage decision to drop out was a “f— you” to Democrat. She contended that she and others had been misled about Harris’ chances in the election. “The truth is this is just an end epic disaster, this is a $1 billion disaster,” Li bluntly told “Fox & Friends Weekend”...

The Democrat Party lacked the support of a significant percentage of Gen Z women in the recent presidential election. Forty percent of women under 30 years old voted for now President-Elect Donald Trump, the Daily Mail reported on Sunday, citing Associated Press (AP) exit polling. “Trump’s huge rally with young women helped secure the largest portion of voters under 30 than any Republican candidate since 2008,” the article said. Vice President Kamala Harris (D) tried to win their votes with her appearance on the Call Her Daddy podcast and endorsements from celebrities such as Taylor Swift and Beyoncé. However, her...

The Women's March group is returning with a series of D.C. protests in light of President-elect Trump's win.Why it matters: The first Women's March was held the day after Trump's 2017 inauguration to protest what the participants saw as threats the administration posed to issues like civil rights and gender equality. It's considered to be the U.S.' biggest-ever single-day demonstration.And now, almost eight years later, the group is protesting another Trump presidency.State of play: The Women's March group will host a rally in D.C. Saturday at Columbus Circle in front of Union Station "to build community and power ahead of...

While checking out at Trader Joe's recently, my cashier mentioned that frozen foods are the specialty grocer's "bread and butter," and boy, was he right. Of all the many reasons that shoppers love TJ's, from affordable prices to top-notch customer service, the California-founded grocery chain has a freezer section that puts others to shame.

WASHINGTON — Olivia Troye, a former Trump administration official who denounced him in a speech at the Democratic convention in August, was boarding a plane recently when a passenger looked at her and said: “Your days are numbered.” Not wanting to escalate a bad situation, she said nothing, but the troubling encounter is emblematic of the hostility she’s faced as a recognizable and vocal critic of Trump. Now, with Trump returning to the White House, she is beset by newfound fears that he, his appointees or supporters could try to punish her for speaking out. “I’m worried that I’ll be...

King Charles has led the nation in two minutes of silence in remembrance of men and women who lost their lives serving in the two world wars or other conflicts. Tens of thousands of veterans and civilians joined the King in paying their respects to the fallen at the annual National Service of Remembrance ceremony at the Cenotaph in central London. The King was joined by other members of the Royal Family, including the Prince and Princess of Wales, and political leaders. Events to mark Remembrance Sunday - observed on the closest Sunday to Armistice Day - are taking place...

Iraq is poised to pass a new law that would lower the legal age of consent from 18 to nine, allowing men to marry young girls, according to a new report. The Shia conservative groups that dominate Iraq’s parliament have proposed an amendment to the country’s “personal status law” that could see a Taliban-style rollback of all women’s rights. The chance would allow young girls to be married off and put nearly all family decisions in the hands of religious authorities, said Raya Faiq, who is coordinating a challenge against the bill with female Iraqi representatives. “This is a catastrophe...