Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president using two Bibles at the U.S. Capitol on Monday. Fox News reported that one of the Bibles was one Trump's mother gave him in 1955 to "mark his Sunday Church Primary School graduation at First Presbyterian Church, in Jamaica, New York,"...

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Former President Joe Biden may have just tipped his hand as to what his political future holds. Biden, despite alleged bad blood with some of his peers and reports of his disgust with his unceremonious ouster from his re-election bid, appears content to stay put. Speaking Sunday -- his last...

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Transcendentalist essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson once described "a foolish consistency" as "the hobgoblin of little minds." Two centuries later, those little minds have found a new hobgoblin: President Donald Trump. Sunday on social media, Democratic Reps. Jasmine Crockett of Texas and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, arguably the two littlest...

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If former President Joe Biden cares at all about tarnishing his legacy, he's not showing it as he leaves the White House. Most Americans were aware that the oft-derided ex-president was going to leave office on Jan. 20 after the results of the 2024 general election. What many Americans weren't...

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Moments after President Donald Trump said nothing can stop Americans who want to get the job done, Carrie Underwood did just that. Underwood was introduced to sing “America the Beautiful” at Trump's inauguration on Monday, but instead there was a lengthy silence as all eyes watched one part of the...

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Former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris refused to clap Monday when President Donald Trump laid out his plans to address the crisis at the southern border in his inaugural address. Trump said among his first actions would be to sign an executive order declaring a national...

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A new report said payback could be coming for 51 national security officials who said in a crucial pre-election letter in 2020 that the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop being released in the media were Russian disinformation. Fox News is reporting that President Donald Trump will revoke the security clearances...

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It's often said that you can tell a lot about parents based on how their children act. If that axiom is indeed true, that reflects rather warmly on the former-and-current first family. Viral video caught the athletic Barron Trump -- the youngest son of President Donald Trump -- demonstrating some...

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The sound of a door slamming shut was heard across America's southern border Monday. An Instagram post broke the bad news to illegal immigrants who used an app to schedule appointments where they could seek asylum. “Effective January 20, 2025 at 12:00pm Eastern Time, the functionalities of CBP One™ that...

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Anyone with knowledge of the Ronald Reagan presidency cannot help but notice some of the amazing parallels between his time in office and Donald Trump's now. There was one obvious one on Monday when Donald Trump was sworn in for his second term in the Capitol Rotunda, rather than outside...

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The second administration of President Donald Trump only started on Monday, but there is already one high-profile exit from the commander-in-chief’s team. Vivek Ramaswamy, the pharmaceutical entrepreneur who ran for the Republican presidential nomination, was initially supposed to lead the Department of Government Efficiency alongside Elon Musk, but now he...

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Cecile Richards, the former president of Planned Parenthood, died on Monday morning at the age of 67 after succumbing to an aggressive form of brain cancer. A statement from the family of Richards, who led the pro-abortion organization between 2006 and 2018, said that she “passed away at home, surrounded...

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Democratic bickering provided the soundtrack for the final hours of the Biden administration. Alexandra Pelosi, daughter of Rep. Nany Pelosi of California, recently likened Jill Biden to William Shakespeare’s Lady Macbeth after not a word from former President Joe Biden and his wife was forthcoming after the former House speaker...

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Christians celebrated online after the popular hymn "Great Is Thy Faithfulness" played in the Capitol Rotunda on Monday ahead of President Donald Trump's inauguration. The chorus to the song, which was being played on the piano, goes, "Great is thy faithfulness, Great is thy faithfulness, Morning by morning new mercies...

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First son Barron Trump appeared to be holding court at a luncheon at the Capitol following his father Donald Trump's inauguration as the 47th president. Reuters reporter Bo Erickson posted on X, "One of the most interesting tables at the Inauguration luncheon is Barron Trump’s." "For the last 30 minutes,...

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Former President Joe Biden vowed on Monday to resist the policy priorities of President Donald Trump as he starts his second administration. The departing commander-in-chief said in a speech at Joint Base Andrews shortly after the inauguration, alongside former first lady Jill Biden, that those who oppose Trump “have a...

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President Donald Trump signed executive orders on Monday that will end remote work arrangements at federal agencies and freeze most hiring for vacant federal positions. The orders, which were signed by Trump hours after his inauguration amid a flurry of other executive actions relating to national security, economic regulation, and...

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President Donald Trump's administration is less than a day old, and already the media has seized upon its first dog-whistling controversy. But is it real? This time, it doesn't involve Trump himself, but Trump supporter — and Tesla/SpaceX CEO, X owner, and Department of Government Efficiency leader — Elon Musk...

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It's somewhat hard to believe, but notorious lefty social media drone Chrissy Teigen may have had the best reaction to the brief (but welcome) TikTok shutdown this week. As you've no doubt heard if you have a phone-addicted Gen Alpha kid, the Chinese video-sharing service/CCP data leech was down for...

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Barron Trump continued his rise in political popularity on Monday at a rally to honor his father’s inauguration, where the crowd simply could not get enough of him. The youngest son of President Donald Trump appeared on inauguration day in a dark suit, a blue tie, and slicked hair, immediately...

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