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Yes, there is yet another new nomination Friday evening from the Trump transition team, and it's for another weighty role in the incoming administration--the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In a statement, President Trump wrote that he will tap former GOP U.S. representative, Dr. Dave Weldon:

Is anyone else getting serious World War III vibes? The Russkies are threatening to bomb US air bases in Poland after launching nuclear-capable hypersonic missiles at Ukraine. This Putin escalation comes after a White House decision to greenlight Kyiv's lobbing of long-range American-made rockets into Mad Vlad's backyard, killing North Korean mercenaries. Hey, 2024, it's 1914 calling. They want their global insanity back. At a time like this, one prays for a steady hand on the Oval Office tiller. So, it's too bad Drowsy Joe's crinkly, sun-spotted digits are too slippery with chocolate ice cream to get a grip. Who...

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Multiple women have said they are boycotting Thanksgiving with their families in the aftermath of Donald Trump's election victory.(snip) Boycotting Thanksgiving with family members who voted for Trump is another way some women are protesting the election results, with many posting about it online.(snip) In one viral TikTok video, Anna Gantt, a 26-year-old mother, told how she and her fiancé had decided not to spend Thanksgiving with her family members who voted for Trump. She said: "This is already the most sad holiday season I think I will ever experience - solely for the fact that I have made the...

Sir Keir Starmer has been warned “people are going to die” because of his decision to scrap the Winter Fuel Payment for millions of pensioners. The Prime Minister was on Friday confronted in a segment on BBC Radio Lincolnshire as a clip played from a concerned listener who will be impacted by a withdrawal of the benefit. “Elderly people are literally going to die”, Lincolnshire local Maxine said, “How’s he going to live with that? Is he going to have the courage to back down from a terrible decision?” He was told Maxine, 63, was wearing extra layers and can’t...

Hard on the heels of the announcement of President-elect Trump's choice for Treasury Secretary, he's now revealed the new director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB), calling the nominee "an aggressive cost cutter"...."who will help us implement our America First Agenda across all Angencies." I am very pleased to nominate Russell Thurlow Vought, from the Great State of Virginia, as the Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB). He did an excellent job serving in this role in my First Term

Genocidal Chinese dictator Xi Jinping held extensive, fruitful meetings with socialist Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Wednesday that concluded with the countries agreeing to elevate their diplomatic ties to that of “Community for a Shared Brazil-China Future for a More Just World and More Sustainable Planet.” ... The two leaders agreed to expand the scope of their cooperation as part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a global infrastructure plan in which China offers predatory loans to poor countries to be used to fund cost-prohibitive infrastructure projects. When the countries cannot pay the loans back, China...

Executives at Ford Motor Company, General Motors (GM), and Stellantis are begging President-elect Donald Trump to keep in place President Joe Biden’s Electric Vehicle (EV) mandates. The plea comes as automakers have invested billions in EVs that have failed to turn a profit. In March of this year, Biden issued a federal regulation to begin phasing out gas-powered cars, requiring American automakers to produce EVs and ensure that by 2032, the majority of new cars sold in the U.S. market are electric. Since then, Ford, GM, and Stellantis have staked their futures on EVs. The results have been bleak as...

President-elect Trump has announced his appointment of Dr. Janette Nesheiwat to be the 22d Surgeon General of the United States.

President-elect Donald Trump named billionaire Scott Bessent as his pick to serve as the next secretary of the Department of the Treasury. “Scott has long been a strong advocate of the America First Agenda. On the eve of our Great Country’s 250th Anniversary, he will help me usher in a new Golden Age for the United States, as we fortify our position as the World’s leading Economy, Center of Innovation and Entrepreneurialism, Destination for Capital, while always, and without question, maintaining the U.S. Dollar as the Reserve Currency of the World,” Trump said in a statement announcing the pick Friday,...

The grief-stricken stepfather of murdered nursing student Laken Riley choked back tears as he read a letter she wrote to her “future husband” in court on Wednesday after her killer was convicted on all counts Wednesday.

The charming, buttercup-yellow cottage where Truman lives in the movie is still owned by Gaetz’s parents in real life. They leaned into their movie-famous home. A photo of a sign on their white, picket-fence gate announces its connection to the movie, (helpful for ogling tourists) along with the family’s names, including Matt and his sibling, Erin: “The Truman House. Don & Vicky Gaetz. Matthew & Erin.” The Gaetz family purchased the seaside property in 1991 for $125,000. It was one of the first in the master-planned community. However, the classic cottage is now estimated to be worth $2.7 million, according...

If the aftermath of Donald Trump’s victory on Election Day feels joyous and tranquil, you are not alone. American households and businesses are much more serene and hopeful this time around. Polling released by Pew Research on Friday shows that 70 percent of Americans are very or somewhat confident that the transition to the Trump administration will go smoothly. Similarly, a majority of Americans say they have a positive evaluation of Trump’s post-election conduct. A 53 percent majority of Americans say they approve of the president-elect’s plans for the country. When asked if they approve of Trump’s conduct post-election, 53...

Well, Friday evening just got a whole lot more exciting, with the latest announcement of a major role in President Donald Trump 47's administration. The president-elect wrote in a statement, picking Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR): I am proud to hereby nominate Congresswoman Lori Chavez-DeRemer, from the Great State of Oregon, as United States Secretary of Labor.

Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees might seem alarming to Democrats, but their plans to dismantle government bureaucracy are far more difficult to execute than they claim. Bill O'Reilly tells NewsNation's "CUOMO" that Trump just wants people in his Cabinet that will do exactly as he tells them to do.

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The Green Party announced on Friday that it is joining international groups in condemning the Biden administration’s decision to supply anti-personnel landmines to Ukraine in response to changing military tactics. This announcement comes after the Biden administration stated this week that it would provide Ukraine with mines. “Let’s be clear here,” said Cassandra Lems, co-chair of the Green Party, in a statement. “The United States should not be supplying landmines to anyone. All landmines do is kill innocent civilians, sometimes for decades to come.” The Biden administration announced on Wednesday that it would provide anti-personnel mines to Ukraine, citing the...

Maria Zakharova stated that the US-NATO construction project, ongoing for nearly a decade with complete disregard to Russian security concerns, has consistently been a focus of Russia's attention MOSCOW, November 21. /TASS/. The US missile defense base in Poland has long been considered a priority target for potential neutralization by the Russian Armed Forces, Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated during a briefing. "Given the level of threats posed by such Western military facilities, the missile defense base in Poland has long been included among the priority targets for potential neutralization. If necessary, this can be achieved using a wide...

By Amy Gardner, Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker and Perry Stein November 22, 2024 at 5:43 p.m. EST The plans show how president-elect Donald Trump wants to use the Justice Department to address his own personal grievances President-elect Donald Trump plans to fire the entire team that worked with special counsel Jack Smith to pursue two federal prosecutions against the former president, including career attorneys typically protected from political retribution, according to two individuals close to Trump’s transition. Trump is also planning to assemble investigative teams within the Justice Department to hunt for evidence in battleground states that fraud tainted the...

Tariffs have a long and storied history as both a revenue-raising tool and a way of protecting strategically important industries in our country. For months, economic commentators parroted the Harris campaign’s misleading talking point that tariffs are a "sales tax." Like much of economists’ conventional wisdom, this view is fundamentally incorrect. The reflexive opposition to tariffs represents political ideology and advocacy, not considered economic thought. The truth is that tariffs have a long and storied history as both a revenue-raising tool and a way of protecting strategically important industries in the U.S. President-elect Trump has added a third leg to...