Sometimes, the jokes write themselves. On Thursday, Politico congressional reporter Nicholas Wu posted a letter to social media platform X dated to the same day from the Congressional Progressive Staff Association -- which is 1,500 members strong. In it, the association asks both House and Senate leaders to implement a...

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Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina has established herself as a flawed-yet-principled advocate for women. Meanwhile, former Democratic Gov. Martin O'Malley of Maryland, who served as Social Security Commissioner for less than a year under President Joe Biden and whom extreme political junkies might remember as an obscure Democratic...

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Some supporters of President-elect Donald Trump on the social media platform X have a preferred mantra. "Nothing can stop what is coming," they often write. Leave it to the president-elect himself to distill that mantra into yet another iconic image. On Wednesday, Trump's official inaugural portrait began circulating on X,...

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Freshman Sen. Adam Schiff of California was apparently so exhausted from his heated exchange with Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi that he was later caught napping during her confirmation hearing on Wednesday. Schiff used his time questioning Bondi, who testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, to raise the specter that...

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A Democratic member of Congress has offered a new conspiracy theory concerning the wildfires around Los Angeles. During a Tuesday interview, Democratic Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove of California suggested race might have been a factor, according to Fox News. "We need to find out the facts -- a full-scale investigation on...

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President-elect Donald Trump announced Thursday that actors Jon Voight, Mel Gibson, and Sylvester Stallone have agreed to serve as his "special ambassadors" to Hollywood with the aim of boosting domestic film production. “It is my honor to announce Jon Voight, Mel Gibson, and Sylvester Stallone, to be Special Ambassadors to...

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Vice President Kamala Harris is unhappy with President Joe Biden over Biden’s post-election claims that he would have defeated President-elect Donald Trump, according to a new report. A Wednesday report in The Wall Street Journal said, Harris now has a “fraying relationship with Biden,” and that according to sources it...

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Rep. Clay Higgins, a Republican from Louisiana, confronted former Social Security Administration Commissioner Martin O’Malley Thursday over telework policies at the agency that he says enables inefficiency, and he had quite a powerful way to prove his point. O’Malley, the former Maryland governor and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate who is...

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CNN plans to move longtime anchor Wolf Blitzer to a new morning slot in an effort to reverse declining ratings at the network. Blitzer, currently the host of “The Situation Room” at the 6:00 p.m. hour, will host a morning show alongside Pamela Brown for two hours each day, according...

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Economist Stephen Moore, who helped draft Donald Trump's original tax reform bill in 2017, is fully on board with the president-elect's plan to take it one step further during his second term. Moore posted on Monday on social media platform X, "Every elected leader in Congress should say YES to...

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Nobody who could do anything about it would listen. Shortly before wildfires ravaged Southern California, many people were sounding the alarm about this exact nightmare scenario because of bureaucratic incompetence, according to CNN. "Less than a month before fires swept across Los Angeles, a group of longtime firefighters gathered at...

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In case you missed his farewell address on Wednesday, President Joe Biden left the White House the same man he came in as: befuddled, rambling, slurring, and gaffe-prone. Besides aping Dwight Eisenhower by calling for the end of the "tech-industrial complex" — which isn't what you think it is, since...

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It turns out that when President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders call out "oligarchs" in the tech industry, they're only talking about people they don't like, not oligarchy as a whole. Sanders discovered the difference after an ugly exchange with President-elect Donald Trump's Treasury secretary nominee. In case you...

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President Joe Biden will not enforce a ban on social media platform TikTok slated to enter into effect on Sunday, thereby leaving the issue for President-elect Donald Trump to deal with. Biden signed a law last year requiring ByteDance, the technology firm based in China which owns Tiktok, to sell...

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A famed left-wing political cartoonist who depicted conservatives as “groomers” was himself arrested on Wednesday for child pornography possession. Darrin Bell, 49, who has produced cartoons for outlets like The Washington Post, was investigated by Sacramento Valley Internet Crimes Against Children Detectives after the agency received a tip about his...

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken was interrupted by two journalists during his final news conference on Thursday with criticisms of his handling of the war between Israel and Hamas. Blinken started in his remarks, which came shortly after a ceasefire and hostage deal between the belligerents, by thanking members of...

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As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, a positive trend is emerging, which is an uptick in self-deportations among illegal immigrants. "Self-deportation helps Trump to achieve his goals without the government having to spend or do anything," the Associated Press reported. Among them was Michel Bérrios, a former leader...

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Almost 200 pieces of artwork made by Hunter Biden were destroyed in the Los Angeles wildfires, one outlet has reported. The artwork was stored at the home of Kevin Morris, Hunter’s attorney, who lives in the wealthy Pacific Palisades neighborhood, which has seen some of the worst of the historic...

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A 2:45 a.m. accident has put LSU freshman quarterback Colin Hurly in the hospital. According to WBRZ-TV, the vehicle Hurley, 17, was driving collided with a tree. Pieces of the vehicle were scattered about after the collision, which took place near the south gates on the LSU campus. According to...

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The end of the Biden administration might not mean the end of the investigation into the financial actions of President Joe Biden’s family members. House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer of Kentucky is asking the incoming Justice Department to file criminal charges against James Biden, the president’s brother, alleging James...

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