Rep. Himes: Gaetz is 'the most ludicrous, random and dangerous AG nomination in 250 years'

President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk have big ambitions for making the federal government leaner and more efficient by reviewing its budget and operations from top to bottom.

Capitol Hill Democrats are pressing the White House to pull out all the stops to gird the executive branch against President-elect's Trump's promised efforts to tear down federal agencies and restructure them to his liking. The lawmakers want President Biden to get aggressive — and creative — with unilateral actions in the final weeks of...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said she was "pretty sure" the next attorney general would prosecute people for "crimes against humanity" committed during the COVID-19 pandemic. "Preparing for the next pandemic is actually recognizing that the last pandemic resulted in crimes against humanity," Greene said during a hearing on preparing for future pandemics. "People that...

Rep. Matt Gaetz is resigning from Congress, effective immediately, just hours after President-elect Donald Trump named the Republican firebrand as his selection for attorney general. House Speaker Mike Johnson confirmed the news to reporters Wednesday night, saying that he hopes to have a replacement for his seat by Jan. 3. "He issued his resignation letter effective immediately," Johnson said. "That caught us by surprise a little bit."

Police "briefly detained" a top Republican congressman and charged him for being too drunk after he appeared to be in distress at the Dulles International Airport near Washington D.C. A statement from Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas, who is also chair of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, said he "made a mistake" and mixed Ambien with alcohol to disastrous results before a Nov. 4 flight, reported NBC News. A spokesperson said McCaul is a nervous flyer and took the sleeping drug to prepare for

A far-right activist testifying against bills to ban guns from the Michigan Capitol in Lansing, which he claimed targeted white people, was gaveled down Thursday and dismissed after using the n-word. The individual in question identified himself as Avi Rachlin, while his sign-in card said he was representing "Groypers for America," referencing a far-right movement [...]

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals just threw a major wrench into the effort to protect the planet—and teed up another chance for the Supreme Court to take a bite out of the administrative state.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) will resign from Congress "effective immediately" after being nominated to serve as attorney general by President-elect Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced on Wednesday. The resignation — which was announced hours after Gaetz received the attorney general nod — was described by Johnson as a way to speed up the process of filling...

Will he or won't he go along with Donald Trump's plan to jam down the Senate's throat his controversial Cabinet and other picks for his administration? That's the question buzzing around the newly elected Senate majority leader, John Thune of South Dakota, who faces his first big test from the powerful president-elect in his top role when the new Congress convenes next month. Trump's apparent favored candidate in the race for majority leader, Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), who lost, reportedly said all

President-elect Trump now has a clear path to enact his agenda and fill out his administration with both the House and Senate in Republican hands come January.

Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) formally joined the Senate Republican leadership team on Wednesday, having won an uncontested bid to become the vice chair of the Senate GOP Policy Committee. Lankford ran unchallenged for the position and will replace Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), who moved up to become chair of the committee. As vice chair,...

Transgender students may soon be prevented from using bathrooms that align with their gender identity after the Ohio state Senate sent a bill to Gov. Mike DeWine to sign.

Although Trump signaled in the runup to the election that he planned to let the vaccine skeptic "go wild" on health, food and medicine, Kennedy's official selection for the nation's top health post sent shockwaves through the public health world, concerned about his potential effects on vaccination rates, research on infectious diseases and misrepresentation of established science.

Incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says that President-elect Trump's controversial Cabinet picks face difficult paths to confirmation in the Senate, warning, "None of this is gonna be easy." Thune acknowledged during a Thursday evening interview with Fox News's "Special Report with Bret Baier" that a few Republican senators are likely to oppose former-Rep....

CHASEBURG, Wis. (WFRV) – A 39-year-old construction worker has died following an accident involving an all-terrain telescopic handler in Chaseburg. On Tuesday, Nov. 12, around 11 a.m., the Vernon County Sheriff's Office responded to the incident on Schoenagel Lane, where David Hibbard Rode Puig of Viola was found critically injured after becoming caught between the machinery [...]

Some evidence that a federal judge had excluded from the bribery trial of former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez was inadvertently put on a computer given to jurors, federal prosecutors revealed Wednesday, though they insisted it should have no effect on the Democrat's conviction. The prosecutors told Judge Sidney H. Stein in a letter that they recently discovered the error which caused a laptop computer to contain versions of several trial exhibits that did not contain the full redactions Stein had ordered.

President-elect Trump's pardoning power once he assumes office is looming over cases involving Jan. 6 rioters, prompting some delays over his promise to grant clemency to supporters who stormed the Capitol in 2021. A federal judge has already agreed to delay a rioter's trial until after Trump's January inauguration – just over a week after...

Democrats in the House and Senate are calling on President Biden to sanction two controversial Israeli ministers, saying the two men have promoted violence against Palestinians and are pushing for annexation of territory that undermines U.S. efforts to support a two-state solution. In a letter sent late last month but released publicly on Thursday, 88...

The ascension of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime anti-vaccine activist, to the nation's top health post has alarmed medical experts, who point to his history of trafficking in conspiracy theories as disqualifying to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Kennedy, whom President-elect Donald Trump selected as health secretary on Thursday, will be charged with a massive portfolio overseeing Americans' insurance, drugs, medical supplies and food if the Senate confirms him.Subscribe to

President-elect Trump's decision to tap Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) to become attorney general caught Senate Republicans completely flat-footed, and put the party on the defensive immediately over one of the most prominent — and polarizing — Cabinet selections. Two key centrist members — Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) — expressed shock and...

President-elect Donald Trump's Republican Party will control both houses of Congress when he takes office in January, Edison Research projected on Wednesday, enabling him to push an agenda of slashing taxes and shrinking the federal government. Republicans will have at least the 218 votes needed to control the 435-seat House of Representatives, Edison projected, with nine races yet to be called. During his first presidential term in 2017-2021, Trump's biggest achievement was sweeping tax cuts that are due to expire next year.

Republicans and Democrats awaited the outcome of vote-counting for crucial U.S. House districts in California on Wednesday, as the GOP clinched majority control of the chamber next year with a race call in neighboring Arizona. In a rematch from 2022, Rep. Ken Calvert — the longest-serving Republican in the state's congressional delegation — defeated rival Democrat Will Rollins in the 41st District, which lies east of Los Angeles and was a top target for national Democrats.

The Washington Post reports the House Ethics Committee will meet Friday with a confidential agenda that many on Capitol Hill believe to be about the investigation into former Florida Rep. and Trump attorney general pick Matt Gaetz. NBC News correspondent Julie Tsirkin, Washington Post reporter Marianna Sotomayor, and Michael Hardaway, former spokesman for House Leader Jeffries, share their thoughts on this and House Speaker Johnson's latest congressional conundrum.

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(WTAJ) — The Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are seeking information from the public surrounding an unidentified man involved in child sex exploitation. John Doe 49 is believed to be involved in a sexual exploitation investigation that includes a child victim. He is described as a white male between 45 [...]