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President-elect Donald Trump stunned political observers Tuesday night by nominating Fox News personality Pete Hegseth for secretary of defense.

Jack Teixeira, a former member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, received a 15-year prison sentence on Tuesday for leaking classified Pentagon documents on social media platform Discord, NBC News reported. The sentencing, handed down by Judge Indira Talwani in Massachusetts' U.S. District Court, follows Teixeira's guilty plea in March to six counts of violating the Espionage Act through the willful retention and transmission of national defense information. .....

As the clock ticks toward President-elect Donald Trump's second term, Democrats are racing to fill dozens of judicial vacancies across federal courts. With just over two months to go until Trump becomes president, Senate Democrats are considering an aggressive effort in the next few weeks to confirm as many of President Biden's judicial appointments as possible during the lame-duck session. Republican control of both the White House and the Senate in January, would limit their ability to influence the federal judiciary. Senator Elizabeth Warren is among the Democrats pushing the efforts. "While still in charge of the Senate and the...

A judge on Tuesday sentenced former Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira to 15 years in prison after he admitted to posting classified military information online. Teixeira, who was 21 when he was arrested in April 2023, pleaded guilty to six charges of willful retention and transmission of national defense information under the Espionage Act in March. Prosecutors have argued the case is "one of the most significant and consequential violations of the Espionage Act in American history." The former national guardsman reportedly uploaded hundreds of pages of sensitive military intelligence, including an assessment of the Russian and Ukrainian militaries,...

As skyrocketing costs and mass exoduses define the Golden State, Democrats face a crucial reckoning.In the final days of the presidential election, President-elect Donald Trump never missed a chance to tie his opponent to California. It was a critique that required no elaboration—though true to form, Trump didn't shy away from providing an overheated one. At his Madison Square Garden rally in October, he proclaimed that Vice President Kamala Harris was a "radical-left lunatic" who "destroyed California." Breathless rhetoric notwithstanding, it is a problem for national Democratic ambitions that California—the state most associated with the party's rule—is now synonymous with...

President-elect Donald Trump may try to stop a law requiring TikTok’s China-based parent company ByteDance to sell the app or face a ban in the U.S., The Washington Post reported Tuesday. Former Trump adviser and campaign manager Kellyanne Conway told the Post Trump “appreciates the breadth and reach of TikTok” and that there are “many ways to hold China to account outside alienating 180 million U.S. users each month.” The Post also cited three anonymous Trump aides who said they expect him to intervene if it’s necessary. Under a law supported by members of both parties and signed by President...

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An American World War II warship sunk by Japanese forces in a fierce battle after the attack on Pearl Harbor has been discovered at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. More than 200 American servicemen perished when the USS Edsall was brought down by Japanese forces on March 1, 1942. The Royal Australian Navy discovered the vessel last year some 200 miles east of Christmas Island, south of Java, but the announcement of the discovery was withheld to coincide with Veterans Day. “Captain Joshua Nix and his crew fought valiantly, evading 1,400 shells from Japanese battleships and cruisers, before being...

As blue Western states and cities finish counting votes, it looks like the popular vote “landslide” projected for Donald Trump last week turned out to be a trickle. When all the votes are counted, he will end up with a margin of roughly two points over Vice President Kamala Harris. Presidents Lyndon Johnson in 1964 and Richard Nixon in 1972 won more than 60 percent of the popular vote; Ronald Reagan in 1984 won 58 percent. Those were landslides.Don’t get me wrong, it was a bad outcome for Democrats. Trump won all seven swing states, netting himself 312 Electoral College...

Trump won the largest Jewish county in the country, the only entirely Jewish town and village, and some of the densest, fastest growing and most Jewish neighborhoods in America.Borough Park, Brooklyn is the densest Jewish neighborhood in the country. Its two square miles contain nearly 100,000 Jewish people in 23,000 households. 83% are married and only 2% are divorced. 96% are members of synagogues. This was where large crowds protested pandemic lockdowns, tearing down playground fences and burning masks.Trump won over 90% of the vote in most Borough Park districts. On 14th Avenue and Rabbi Weissmandl Way, Trump won 96%...

The Harris-Walz campaign funneled some $500,000 to the Rev. Al Sharpton’s nonprofit, the National Action Network, prior to the vice president’s softball sit-down interview with the civil rights activist. Vice President Kamala Harris’ team made two donations of $250,000 to Sharpton’s group on Sept. 5 and Oct. 1 respectively, according to Federal Election Commission records. The cash flow came in the context of payments totaling $5.4 million to various black and Latino activist organizations as the campaign set its sights on galvanizing support among minority voters. The Washington Free Beacon first reported the donations. Available campaign finance records are current...

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The legendary jazz drummer challenged the idea that a percussionist’s primary function was to keep time.Roy Haynes has passed away. He was the last surviving member of a small but elite cadre of drummers who rose to fame in the mid-1940s, introducing conversational elements into jazz’s rhythmic vocabulary and challenging the idea that a percussionist’s primary function was to keep time. Dubbed “Snap Crackle” by bassist Al McKibbon – purportedly in an approximation of his uniquely crisp snare drum sound – Haynes distinguished himself with his innovative use of cymbals, driving the groove while adding rhythmic commentary to what...

00:21 Kari Lake Dodges Question About Arizona Elections By Aila Slisco Writer FOLLOW 128 Claims of attempts to steal elections from Republican U.S. Senate candidates in Arizona and Nevada have emerged online without clear evidence and despite the candidates exceeding expectations in both races. Republicans took control of the Senate on the back of a decisive presidential election victory by President-elect Donald Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump appears poised to win the popular vote and has won all of the swing states that have been called so far. As of Thursday evening, Republicans had a 53-seat majority in...

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s demand that Senate Republicans surrender their role in vetting his nominees poses an early test of whether his second term will be more radical than his first.Over the weekend, Mr. Trump insisted on social media that Republicans select a new Senate majority leader willing to call recesses during which he could appoint personnel, a process that would allow him to unilaterally sidestep the confirmation process. His allies immediately applauded the idea, intensifying pressure on G.O.P. lawmakers to acquiesce.The demand to weaken checks and balances and take for himself some of the legislative branch’s usual power underscored...

This is just a screenshot from moments ago on CNN's Upfront. (11.12.24).

Ratings-challenged CNN is reportedly set for a major bloodbath — with boss Mark Thompson expected to lay off high-priced on-air talent as part of wide-ranging layoffs. The cable network — which lagged behind rivals MSNBC and Fox News during last week’s Election Night coverage — will implement “layoffs that will impact hundreds of employees across the organization,” according to Puck News. Thompson, who took over last year after the ouster of Chris Licht, will cull personnel from CNN’s television production teams whose “talents won’t necessarily be needed in the new digital-first landscape,” the outlet added. The network’s workforce is reported...

Sean Curran, the Secret Service Agent in the iconic photo of President Trump after the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania in July is the leading candidate for Secret Service Director. Other names being floated for the position include Dan Bongino and Tom Armas. Per Susan Crabtree of RealClearPolitics:

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