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Senate Republicans returned to Washington on Tuesday for the first time since they secured a comfortable Senate majority and a victory for President-elect Donald Trump, but most already have their eyes on a different election set to take place Wednesday to determine the new party leader in the chamber. Three senators are running to replace Mitch McConnell, who has served atop the Senate Republican Conference for a record-breaking 17 years. With McConnell announcing his intent to step aside earlier this year, Sen. John Thune, the current Republican whip, is running against Sen. John Cornyn, a Texas senator and former Republican...

Eric Hovde makes first statement in 6 days. Hovde was leading most of the night over Tammy Baldwin until a late night drop from Milwaukee.

CRESCENT CITY, Calif. — In less than 15 minutes, Michael Mariscal validated why a team of officials at Cal Poly Humboldt have spent more than three years trying to set up the first bachelor’s degree program at a maximum-security prison in California.

Xi Jinping has put the fate of his country and regime in the hands of others, especially the next leader of the country he considers an enemy, the United States. Yes, China’s ruler, who many consider the world’s most powerful figure, is, in reality, helpless.How did that happen?in short, Xi did it to himself. ...he has consistently rejected common sense advice to boost consumer spending to make it the basis of the Chinese economy, and almost all his recently announced stimulus measures will directly or indirectly erode consumption.This means Xi has only one option left: export his way out of...

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders celebrated former Gov. Mike Huckabee's appointment as Donald Trump's Israel Ambassador.

US President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday he had picked former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe to serve as director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

University of Southern California (USC) President Carol Folt announced that she would resign, effective July 1, 2025, making her the latest academic leader to depart following more than a year of antisemitic protests on campus.The Daily Trojan noted that Folt did not provide a specific reason for her resignation. However, the Jewish News Syndicate noted that Folt had been criticized for the way USC handled — or mishandled — the protests: "In June, the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights opened an investigation into USC for potential violations of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. In...

President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday evening that John Ratcliffe, a former Texas congressman and director of national intelligence, would return to the executive branch as director of the Central Intelligence Agency. “From exposing fake Russian collusion to be a Clinton campaign operation, to catching the FBI’s abuse of Civil Liberties at the FISA Court, John Ratcliffe has always been a warrior for Truth and Honesty with the American Public. When 51 intelligence officials were lying about Hunter Biden’s laptop, there was one, John Ratcliffe, telling the truth to the American People,” Trump, 78, said in a statement.

One of the very best Presidents we have ever had was Calvin Coolidge. What sets him a part is that he's the only one to actually successfully reduce the size of Government.There were 5 main approaches he took to make this happen. If Trump follows his example, he has a good chance at being the only other President to do this. That would be a huge win.To his credit, some of the steps President Trump has already taken, sets him up to actually make this happen. It's going to require him to make his policy clear, and he has to...

Habba quickly joined Trump's inner circle and became an attack dog against Democrats and his prosecutors. ....Habba was a legal spokeswoman for Trump, often taking on media outside courtrooms – and she became a senior advisor to the former and future president's campaign in the final months. Habba quickly emerged as a crowd favorite and is known for her brutal speeches going after Democrats. In the E. Jean Carroll case she had frequent disagreements with Judge Lewis Kaplan, who even threatened her with jail. At one point Judge Kaplan said: 'Ms Habba, you are on the verge of spending some...

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele and Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves on Monday agreed to create a “League of Nations,” a bloc of like-minded smaller developing countries with common objectives in security, economy, and other areas. The prospective and yet-to-be formally named group, President Chaves explained, will start with El Salvador and Costa Rica, and aims to promote joint ideas and propose them to the incoming administration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and to the rest of the world. Both presidents made the announcement in remarks given after a private meeting on the occasion of Bukele’s two-day visit to Costa Rica.

This Fiery "Arcane" Romance Illuminates Why so Many People Won't Date or Befriend Trump Supporters

Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) continued to refuse to concede the race to Senator-elect Dave McCormick (R-PA) in Pennsylvania’s Senate race, despite several outlets having called the election in McCormick’s favor. In a video posted to X, Casey stated that “close to seven million people” in Pennsylvania had cast their votes in the election last Tuesday, adding that county election officials would “finish counting those votes.” Casey’s post came as McCormick attended Senate orientation after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) previously received criticism from Republican senators for not allowing McCormick to attend the orientation.

BREAKING: Some Democrats are now saying AOC is the future of the party.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito does not intend to retire in light of President-elect Donald Trump’s election victory, according to the Wall Street Journal. Trump’s election sparked speculation Alito and Thomas, 74 and 76 years old, respectively, would retire to enable Trump to appoint younger conservative justices to the bench. However, people close to the justice told the WSJ this is not a factor in Alito’s plans. “Despite what some people may think, this is a man who has never thought about this job from a political perspective,” an individual close to Alito told the WSJ. “The idea that he’s...

Insane! Liberal 82-Year-Old Arrested After Allegedly Assaulting "Brown-Skinned" Trump Supporter "You can't do that!" Police bodycam footage captured the aftermath of an 82-year-old woman being arrested after allegedly assaulting a Trump supporter who she confronted and lectured "because she is brown-skinned."

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday ordered the entire administration of President Joe Biden to preserve all records and communications in the waning days of the outgoing Democrat administration as former President Donald Trump’s team prepares to take over.Johnson, Breitbart News has learned exclusively, has sent letters to all 18 federal Departments ordering them to retain and preserve documents. This could become an explosive storyline if outgoing Biden administration officials attempt to delete or destroy documents that shed light on some of the radical policies they pursued or scandals with regard to censorship or other major storylines of the past...

The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg said she is part of the working class on Tuesday, adding that she would not be co-hosting the talk show if she could financially afford not to. Goldberg and her fellow co-hosts discussed a recent social media post from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) asking people why they chose to vote for President-elect Donald Trump, in which she received responses calling both her and Trump “outsiders” from the establishment of Washington, D.C., who care about “the working class.” Co-host Ana Navarro suggested the next Democratic presidential candidate needs to make a name for himself or herself...

The Trump transition team is considering a draft executive order that establishes a “warrior board” of retired senior military personnel with the power to review three- and four-star officers and to recommend removals of any deemed unfit for leadership. If Donald Trump approves the order, it could fast-track the removal of generals and admirals found to be “lacking in requisite leadership qualities,” according to a draft of the order reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

Skynet-1A being launched in 1969. Image Credit: NASA, Image ID: KSC-69P-0941 via Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain, Modified by IFLScience Amilitary spacecraft launched 55 years ago was moved from its orbit – and nobody is quite sure who did it, or why. In 1969 the UK launched Skynet-1A, a military communications satellite placed in orbit above the east coast of Africa in order to relay information to British armed forces. It stopped working due to hardware issues around 18 months after it started operating, and the spacecraft was left to the laws of physics to orbit the Earth – it is...