CBS News - Politics (6 minutes ago)
The House Ethics Committee will keep its report of an investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against former Rep. Matt Gaetz sealed for the time being after it was unable to reach a decision Wednesday on whether to release it. Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump's controversial pick for attorney general, was on Capitol Hill today...
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It's been six years since a British prime minister met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Could Keir Starmer's encounter with the president at this week's G20 lead to a thaw after years of frosty relations as the world prepares for a possible trade war when Donald Trump returns to the White House? The quiet quads of […]
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Bis kommenden Montag will die Spitze der SPD nun endlich entscheiden, ob es einen Kanzlerkandidaten, Scholz oder Pistorius, geben wird. Wie nicht alle, aber die wichtigsten Zeichen für Scholz stehen, fasst Gordon Repinski zusammen. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview spricht der Juso-Vorsitzende Philipp Thürmer über die Streitpunkte mit dem Kanzler, warum...
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The new head of the National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg has some homework to do before taking over in January — starting with a long-awaited parliamentary committee report that recommends ending all government-funded research in sensitive areas with people or entities from within China.
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Will U.S. president-elect Donald Trump's tariffs devastate Canada's economy, or barely graze it? It's all in how they're designed. Now that we know Trump has tasked Wall Street exec Howard Lutnick to lead the tariff plan, here's what he's said about it.
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Some 30 Canadian MPs, including NDP and Green leaders Jagmeet Singh and Elizabeth May, as well as four members of the governing Liberal caucus, have joined forces with counterparts in New Zealand and Australia in support of recognizing a Palestinian state.
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An ally to Donald Trump found himself defending the president-elect's continued rollout of his next administration's cabinet picks, which a CNN host noted in a vigorous exchange has more white men named "Doug" than Black people.The moment came Wednesday during an appearance by Bruce Levell, former executive director of Trump's National Diversity...
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In early 2024, senior officials at the Canada Revenue Agency were so concerned it had wrongly authorized bogus refunds of tens of millions of dollars that they wrote confidential briefing notes stating that the agency was plagued by significant "gaps" in its ability to spot — and stop — scammers, records show.
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The criticism surrounding President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Pentagon hit the military's top brass Wednesday.Mark Milley, the retired U.S. Army general and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, clapped back at the notion that women aren't equipped to serve in combat roles – a view that conflicts with those expressed by Fox...
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A Republican ally of Donald Trump got a dressing down from a CNN anchor on Wednesday night during a tense discussion over new reporting that federal authorities have a "web" of transactions between embattled former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and multiple women.Federal investigators established a "trail of payments" from Gaetz to women, including some...
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I have an admission for you: I never took even a single second to consider the terrible residue of a Democratic loss in this month's elections, precisely because of the terrible things that happened last week.When others brought it up, I would simply defer and say something that tasted like this: "I can't allow myself to go there, because the...
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WASHINGTON — Praising House Speaker Mike Johnson's new policy barring trans women from Capitol restrooms, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) on Wednesday said her new concern is making sure the ban is "cemented” and reiterated her intention to continue filing anti-trans legislation."I am proud to be a woman and today women won,” Mace said Wednesday....
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A convicted Jan. 6 rioter from Tennessee was found guilty Wednesday in a separate criminal case for his plan to murder federal law enforcement agents who investigated his role in the Capitol attack, according to the Justice Department.Edward Kelley, 35, of Maryville, Tennessee, developed a "kill list” of FBI agents and other federal employees who...
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A Republican senator from Tennessee expressed outrage on social media after an ABC News reporter told viewers there was "little evidence" to suggest immigrants are linked to violent crimes.Sen. Marsha Blackburn took to X on Wednesday to rail against reporter Ike Ejiochi, who referred to the discourse around immigration and crime as a "massive...
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Donald Trump's border czar, former Immigrations and Customs Enforcement chief Tom Homan, delivered a threatening message Wednesday to blue states and cities on Newsmax: there will be retribution if you get in the way of Trump's mass deportation plans."I'll tell you this: They don't have to help us, but they need to get the hell out of the way...
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President-elect Donald Trump has tapped a former congressman — and co-founder of the House Tea Party caucus — to become his next ambassador to Canada. Trump said in a news release Wednesday night that Pete Hoekstra is his nominee for the position, a right-wing former lawmaker who has promoted baseless conspiracy theories about Democrats,...
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Chaos and controversy created by President-elect Donald Trump's unconventional picks to head high-profile government positions will come with a price, according to prominent Republican strategist Karl Rove.In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Rove, a onetime senior advisor and deputy chief of staff to former President George W. Bush, said that price...
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Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) tore into Donald Trump's Cabinet nominations on MSNBC's "The ReidOut" Wednesday, saying the government could fall apart simply by virtue of the people below them not taking them seriously.He took particular aim at Trump's nomination to lead the Pentagon, Fox News personality Pete Hegseth, whose sexual misconduct allegation...
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Donald Trump has given the Republican Senate caucus a test designed to humiliate them in selecting former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) as attorney general and demanding they either confirm him or go into recess to allow him to bypass a vote, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Wednesday.Gaetz, who resigned last week after being...
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WASHINGTON — Disgraced and ousted former Long Island Rep. George Santos had some choice words for the House Ethics Committee hours after it deadlocked on whether to release an investigative report into his onetime Republican colleague, ex-Rep. Matt Gaetz.The moment came Wednesday after Santos was asked his opinions on the unfolding situation...
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A federal appeals court has blocked Louisiana — for now — from forcing all public school classrooms to post the Ten Commandments.The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the state's request to temporarily pause a federal judge's order as litigation continues, The Associated Press reported Wednesday. The appeals court's decision means the...
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Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel ripped into Donald Trump in a new memoir previewed by Politico on Wednesday.The memoir by Merkel, who led the center-right Christian Democratic Union party and was in office through the first half of Trump's presidency, comes as Trump prepares to take office once again, and the European Union grapples with the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (6 hours ago)
Rep. Michael Guest (R-MS), chair of the House Ethics Committee, said there was no agreement on releasing a report about sexual misconduct allegations against former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), President-elect Donald Trump's pick for attorney general.After a two-hour Ethics Committee meeting on Wednesday, Guest told reporters there "was not an agreement...
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CNN's Jake Tapper was taken aback Wednesday — and slightly amused — by the threats made by one of Donald Trump's key loyalists, Dan Bongino, who is reportedly in contention to head up the Secret Service."CNN is reporting that right-wing media personality and former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino — by the way, like years ago, we would have...
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A deep cynicism by Americans about how they view the government — and its future — has reached a boiling point, according to a new study that left a New York Times columnist grappling with the wrenching question of "Why?"In a study conducted by researchers at three leading universities, respondents from all political backgrounds did not believe...
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Federal investigators established a "trail of payments" from former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to women he is accused of paying for sex, The New York Times reported Wednesday.This comes amid a steady trickle of leaks about a House Ethics Committee report into Gaetz, who has been accused by two women of having engaged in sexual misconduct with a high...
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Donald Trump's vanquished Republican primary foe has fighting words when it comes to the president-elect's top Cabinet picks. The former United Nations ambassador on Wednesday lashed out against Fox News host Pete Hegseth and former Reps. Matt Gaetz and Tulsi Gabbard on her podcast "Nikki Haley Live.""There's gonna be a lot of issues getting Matt...
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Democratic Rep. Sean Casten (IL) told MSNBC on Wednesday that he has filed a resolution that would force a vote on the full House to decide whether to release the Ethics Committee investigation report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL). Gaetz was under investigation for engaging in a sexual relationship with an underage teen, paying for sex, and...
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A former aide to Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop sued him and other city officials Wednesday, accusing them of discrimination, defamation, and civil rights violations for trash-talking and ultimately firing him because he donated to his conservative sister's political campaign. Jonathan Gomez Noriega, who worked off and on for the city since 2018,...
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Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), embroiled in scandals surrounding an ethics report into allegations of child sex trafficking and other offenses, is grabbing headlines as Republicans scramble to decide whether they support making the findings public before hearings into his nomination for attorney general. But presidential strategist Ashley Etienne...
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The House Ethics Committee on Wednesday failed to release what was expected to be a damning investigative report involving former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), but that hasn't ended speculation that the report could come out one way or another.Almost immediately after reports surfaced that the ethics committee had deadlocked in its deliberations on...
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Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters insisted he would "absolutely" penalize schools that don't show a video of him praying for President-elect Donald Trump.In a Wednesday interview with Real America's Voice, Walters was asked if schools that decided not to show his prayer to students would be punished. "Do you plan to penalize them in any...
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The normally straight-faced CNN host Jake Tapper couldn't hold back his skepticism after airing a newly unearthed video of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggesting the U.S. government secretly orchestrated the COVID-19 pandemic.The video, revealed by The Bulwark on Tuesday, shows Kennedy — President-elect Donald Trump's choice to head the Department of...
ReadAustralian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (7 hours ago)
Police released the review three days before they were set to given evidence at South Australia's Royal Commission into Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence — after a four-month-long fight to block the ABC's freedom of information request.
ReadNational Public Radio - Politics (8 hours ago)
The federal courts say they have taken "extensive" steps to protect workers from abuse, discrimination and harassment since the rise of the #MeToo movement, but critics say many workers don't trust the internal system for reporting complaints.
ReadAustralian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (8 hours ago)
Cottesloe was one of only two Liberal seats to hold firm in the red Labor tsunami of 2021, but with the sitting MP on his way out, and a teal-tinged candidate entering the fray, the tide could be changing in the beachside enclave.
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President-elect Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he was selling guitars at $1,500 a piece, sending a chorus of laughs rippling through social media.In a Truth Social post to his followers, the incoming president said "Limited Edition American Eagle Guitar Series” would be available for purchase.The website noted the item is "the only...
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A cornerstone of President-elect Donald Trump's second-term agenda is the mass deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants. And his recent call to use emergency powers to deploy the U.S. military on U.S. soil is now being publicly slammed by a top Senate Republican.Earlier this week, Trump said on his Truth Social platform that he would make...
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President-elect Donald Trump's children aren't wasting any time launching new money-making opportunities after their father was elected to a second term in the White House.According to the Daily Beast, Lara Trump – the Republican National Committee co-chair who is married to the president-elect's son, Eric — is now launching a new clothing...
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Rep. Susan Wild (D-PA) gave a statement after the House Ethics Committee meeting about the group's decision not to release the report about former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on party lines. She said she left the room with plans to abide by their agreement not to discuss what transpired. "But it has come to my attention that the chairman has since...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)
Republican lawmakers are laughing at President-elect Donald Trump and the "clown" he wants to see appointed the nation's top law enforcement officer, according to Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA). Swalwell on Wednesday scoffed at Trump's chosen attorney general, former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), and his attempts to bury a potentially damning Ethics committee...
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On the heels of the Republican Party's election success, lead figures from Donald Trump's team has been meeting with a "stealthy" group of ultra-rich donors that suddenly has major influence, the New York Times reported Wednesday.The newspaper followed insiders, including incoming White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, from the campaign trail to a...
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Rep. Summer Lee (D-PA) called out white conservatives like Rep. James Comer (R-KY) after he pushed a bill that would modify the Civil Rights Act to outlaw diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in the federal government.During a House Oversight Committee hearing on Wednesday, Comer encouraged members to support the Dismantle DEI Act."The...
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Donald Trump managed to win a second term in large part due to the frustration of the electorate over prices — but there's a big economic crisis looming over the president-elect's head that could end up defeating him, Heather Long wrote for The Washington Post.That crisis is the cost of a home."The housing crisis is real," wrote Long. "It's one...
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