Free Republic

Sa’ad bin Atef al-Awlaki, the newly anointed leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), has issued a chilling call to arms targeting the President of the United States, Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and other top administration officials, including Elon Musk and Cabinet members. The Islamic terrorist, already wanted by the U.S. government with a $6 million bounty on his head, released a 34-minute video on Sunday, filled with explicit threats and calls for bloodshed inside the United States, the New York Post reported. Al-Awlaki, speaking in Arabic but quickly translated and circulated on social media, issued a...

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) revealed that federal air marshals surveilled now-Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard during domestic flights last year, according to documents reviewed by the senator’s office. The Kentucky lawmaker made the revelation during a Capitol Hill hearing on Tuesday involving Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem, who was testifying about her department’s budget request for the fiscal year 2026. “I commend you and the Trump administration for ending all government-sponsored censorship using DHS personnel. Just last night, I received the first set of records from the department regarding Tulsi Gabbard’s placement on the TSA Quiet...

President-elect Donald Trump has announced that he is bringing back several cabinet members from his first term to serve in his upcoming administration that will begin this month. In a series of posts on Truth Social on Saturday, Trump revealed his picks for several senior positions, emphasizing the importance of their experience, according to the New York Post. The announcements included Steven Bradbury who has been nominated as Deputy Secretary of Transportation. During Trump’s first term, Bradbury served as General Counsel at the Department of Transportation and was credited for the rebuilding of “our crumbling infrastructure” and cutting regulations that...

(video)

Bush Keeps 4 Secretaries, Taps NicholsonWASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) has asked the secretaries of the Transportation, Labor, Interior and Housing departments to remain and they have all agreed, completing decisions about which Cabinet members will stay for his second term. And Bush announced on Thursday that Jim Nicholson, former chairman of the Republican National Committee (news - web sites) and current U.S. ambassador to the Vatican (news - web sites), is his choice as the next secretary of the Veterans Affairs Department. Bush spoke with the four Cabinet secretaries — Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta (news...

The U.S. secretaries of education and housing held a news conference Thursday afternoon in Kansas City. The subject, however, wasn't education or housing. Instead the two Cabinet members, both black, blasted a flier from a Democrat-aligned group as racist. Cabinet secretaries always have stumped for the re-election of their boss by showing up to hand out grants, but the Bush administration has taken campaigning to a new level, experts said Thursday. A review of news reports shows that Bush Cabinet officials primarily are appearing in battleground states. “What is unusual is the extent to which they have participated in more...