The Department of Public Works install the 2024 City of Milwaukee Christmas Tree

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...

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

Mayor Brandon Johnson on Thursday pushed back on criticism that his Chicago police budget plan endangers the department's compliance with the federal consent decree, despite dire warnings from Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul and the court-ordered independent monitor. Raoul on Tuesday wrote to "strongly urge" Johnson against slashing unfilled Chicago Police Department positions in the ...

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 [...]

In picking billionaire Elon Musk to be "our cost cutter" for the U.S. government, President-elect Donald Trump won't be the first American president to empower a business tycoon to look for ways to dramatically cut federal regulations. "He's now in a position to try and curry favor for those enterprises."

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.

The Onion's latest headline is no satire: It's purchased Alex Jones' right-wing Infowars in a bankruptcy auction. Further twisting the knife, the satirical news site announced its winning bid was supplemented by the loved ones of the mass shooting victims of Sandy Hook Elementary School. It's a final laugh for The Onion, which has regularly spoofed Jones over his spreading of conspiracies on Infowars, including his false claims about Sandy Hook that pushed the parents of slain children to succes

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...

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.

President-elect Trump stunned Washington with two controversial picks to lead important law enforcement and intelligence roles in his administration, tapping Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) to serve as attorney general and Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic representative, to serve in the nation's top intelligence job. Trump tapped a loyalist to lead a Justice Department he has...

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.

Trump has given two entrepreneurs a mission to make the government more efficient. It's unclear how Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would accomplish that.

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...

Democratic strategist David Axelrod is pushing for U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel to become the new chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). "If they said, 'Well, what should we do? Who should lead the party?' I would take Ambassador Rahm Emanuel, and I would bring him back from Japan and I would appoint...

Black and Latino families who were pushed out of a Palm Springs neighborhood in the 1960s reached a $5.9 million tentative settlement agreement with the city. The deal was announced Wednesday, and the city council will vote on it Thursday. The history of displacement that took place there had been largely forgotten until recent years, said Areva Martin, a lawyer representing more than 300 former residents and hundreds of descendants.

President Joe Biden's Environmental Protection Agency finalized a new rule Tuesday taxing methane emissions from the oil and gas sector, but critics argue the move is "irrelevant" and will serve to boost Big Oil and stifle innovation.

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