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Republicans have elected South Dakota Sen. John Thune as the next Senate majority leader, completing a momentous shift in their leadership that elevates a top deputy of Sen. Mitch McConnell into a key position as President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House. Thune, who’s 63 and in his fourth Senate term, has promised to work closely with Trump despite differences the two have had over the years. Thune will be a crucial part of the incoming president’s efforts to push through his policy agenda. He beat out two other competitors, Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Rick Scott of...

President Joe Biden welcomed President-Elect Donald Trump back to the White House on Wednesday and congratulated him on his landslide victory. Trump’s historic appearance at the White House was his first visit since 2021, a visual contrast between the once-two bitter political rivals over the last five years. “Well, Mr. President-Elect and Former President Donald, congratulations,” Biden said as he shook Trump’s hand. “Thank you,” Trump replied.

PHOENIX (AP) — A judge recused himself Tuesday from presiding over Arizona’s fake electors case after an email surfaced in which he told fellow judges to speak out against attacks on Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign for the presidency. In the Aug. 29 email, Maricopa County Judge Bruce Cohen lamented that he didn’t speak out when Harris was called a “DEI hire,” believes that white men must speak out against unfair treatment of women, and raised a historical lesson from the Holocaust about the need to speak up when people are attacked. Cohen didn’t specify who made the comment...

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Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is reportedly doing “terrible” after President-elect Donald Trump’s victory and Republicans taking the Senate and retaining the House majority. CNN’s Manu Raju asked the 84-year-old California lawmaker how she is doing, to which she replied, “Terrible.” Pelosi’s apparent dour mood comes one week after Trump’s historic comeback victory, sweeping all seven swing states as well as winning the popular vote. “THANK YOU GOD!” Trump said in an all caps post, this week, walking through his stunning victory stats.

Special counsel Jack Smith said "now that the election is over we will move to drop the federal cases against former President Donald Trump. These were crap cases to begin with. We might've won in a venue with a carefully selected jury, but neither the classified documents case nor the attempt to overturn the 2020 election case could have withstood the scrutiny of the higher courts." "Others with more egregious mishandling of classified documents have not been prosecuted," Smith admitted. "Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton kept classified documents on an unsecured personal computer and deliberately destroyed evidence after receiving...

The legacy media is dying, and as we've been cheering it on for years now, it's a long time coming: CNN is planning to wield the axe on some of its high-paid staff after dismal election ratings that cap off a disastrous period for the cable news network. According to an explosive new report from Puck, network executives will unleash sweeping lay-offs in a bid to save the network's flailing reputation. ...or those who don't know, "seeking a partner" means they're looking for someone to split the losses with so it doesn't affect their bottom line as badly. They're mostly...

JUST IN - Senate Republican vote first ballot shows Rick Scott is out. Senate GOP leadership race is now between John Thune and John Cornyn

Also: https://decisiondeskhq.com/results/2024/General/US-Senate/ President Trump outperformed the Republican U.S. Senate candidates in four of the largest non-swing states (percents): TX 56.3 to 53.1 NY 44.2 to 41.1 FL 56.1 to 55.6 OH 55.2 to 50.2 (In CA President Trump underperformed 38.2 to 41.1.)

Ukraine could develop a rudimentary nuclear bomb within months if Donald Trump withdraws US military assistance, according to a briefing paper prepared for the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence. The country would quickly be able to build a basic device from plutonium with a similar technology to the “Fat Man” bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945, the report states. “Creating a simple atomic bomb, as the United States did within the framework of the Manhattan Project, would not be a difficult task 80 years later,” the document reads. With no time to build and run the large facilities required to enrich...

Fox News reports that Trump will send a special envoy to negotiate a peace between Russia and Ukraine."You’re going to see a very senior special envoy, someone with a lot of credibility, who will be given a task to find a resolution," the report says. "You’re going to see that in short order." In the campaign, Trump said he would end the war in 24 hours, before he was even sworn in.The Fox report also highlights this: Some advisers are reportedly encouraging Trump to push Kiev to agree to terms that would freeze the frontlines by creating an 800-mile-long demilitarized...

In preparation for today's secret U.S. Senate vote for the next Majority Leader, I wrote to my state's two senators -- Tom Cotton and John Boozman -- and politely urged them to vote for Florida's Rick Scott, the least objectionable of the three choices. Cotton -- best known for a pissy demeanor and ability to snipe low-hanging political fruit -- has so far only responded with a mechanical "thanks for writing" e-mail. Boozman -- with a "D" Liberty Score from Conservative Review -- responded with the following bland and non-committal answer (emphasis mine): Thank you for contacting me regarding the...

Daily Readings from the USCCBJesus said in reply, “Ten were cleansed, were they not? Where are the other nine? Has none but this foreigner returned to give thanks to God?” Then he said to him, “Stand up and go; your faith has saved you.” Luke 17:17–19This reply from our Lord came in response to the one leper who returned to Jesus to thank Him. Ten lepers had come to Jesus, stood at a distance, cried out, “Jesus, Master! Have pity on us!” And with that, Jesus healed them all. But the heart of this healing is not as much the...

White Boy Summer just got extended for at least four more years. The War on Boys that started decades ago has finally ended; the boys won decisively on Nov. 5, 2024. Young guys (18-29) shifted 29 points to the right since 2020!

After nearly breaking down in tears following President-elect Donald Trump’s victory last week, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel has quickly reverted to his old self by smearing incoming First Lady Melania Trump on Tuesday’s show, making fun of her accent while also conjuring up a fantasy in which she divorces President-elect Donald Trump. Jimmy Kimmel attacked Melania Trump during his opening monologue, noting she turned down Jill Biden’s White House invitation. “Trump’s team claims Melania had a scheduling conflict related to her ‘booook’ that came out five weeks ago which doesn’t sound true,” he said, prompting the studio audience to guffaw at...

The Signers of the Declaration of Independence and Our First President risked it all.In making a list of the most courageous political leaders our country has ever had, I would begin with those who risked everything: their reputations, theirs and their families’ fortunes, and their very lives. This country was birthed by such men. Fifty-six of them signed the Declaration of Independence. George Washington would have been the 57th, but at the time he was defending New York City as the Commander of the nascent Continental Army.These 56 Signers were men of property. They, like Washington had a lot to...

President-elect Donald Trump is expected to soon appoint a Ukrainian peace envoy to lead negotiations on ending the war with Russia, multiple sources told Fox News Digital. "You’re going to see a very senior special envoy, someone with a lot of credibility, who will be given a task to find a resolution, to get to a peace settlement," one of the sources said. "You’re going to see that in short order." The job is not expected to be a salaried role - from 2017 to 2019, Kurt Volker had served as special representative to Ukrainian negotiations on a volunteer basis.

Pope Francis calls for global financial revolution to fight ‘climate change’The Pope's message to the United Nations' COP29 event contained support for the group's goal to orient global finance to the implementation of 'climate change' policies, something drawn from the Great Reset agenda of Klaus Schwab. In an address delivered to the COP29 climate change conference today, Pope Francis urged the international community to respond swiftly to climate change and to implement climate-oriented “finance” plans.“The scientific data available to us do not allow any further delay and make it clear that the preservation of creation is one of the most...

Donald Trump's left-field Secretary of Defense pick Pete Hegseth has an impressive display of tattoos – some of which have already proved controversial for the Fox News host. The veteran who served tours in both Afghanistan and Iraq and is double Bronze Star holder and is a TV top presenter having fronted Fox and Friends since 2017. Hegseth, who is 44, started adorning his body with tattoos only recently after his father dissuaded him from getting tattoos at a young age.

ccording to Edmunds, more Americans are stuck with cars worth less than what they owe. This troubling trend has become increasingly common and their data shows how widespread it has become. When you look at the numbers, in the third quarter of 2024, about one in four people trading in their vehicles were in negative equity or "upside-down" on their car loans. The average negative equity hit an all-time high of $6,458 – and some owe even more. Edmunds reports that these figures are a growing issue affecting many car owners