House Republicans are pushing to abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) ahead of President-elect Donald Trump taking office later this month. Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., is unveiling the bill on Tuesday and already has several co-sponsors in Reps. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., Mike Collins, R-Ga., Bob Onder, R-Mo.,…

President-elect Trump reiterated that ‘all hell will break out’ if the hostages still held in Gaza have not been freed by the time he enters office in two weeks on Jan. 20. Trump was asked about the threats he first levied in early December at the Hamas terrorist organization that…

Jimmy Carter, the centenarian former president who lived long enough to see Donald Trump elected again but died just before the start of the new year, has a foreign policy legacy that wasn’t just defined by his four years in the White House. Over the term of his presidency, the…

Hawaii’s Democratic Governor and practicing physician, Josh Green, is visiting Capitol Hill this week to lobby lawmakers against the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary. In a Tuesday op-ed for The New York Times, he argued that ‘our children’s lives depend’ on preventing…

A prominent fact-checking organization used by Facebook to moderate political content reacted to news that it will revamp its fact-checking to better avoid bias with an article outlining its disappointment and disagreement with the move. ‘Lead Stories was surprised and disappointed to first learn through media reports and a press…

The White House’s outgoing cyber czar, Harry Coker, called for three key things to meet the growing threat of digital attacks: more funding, deregulation and opening up cyber jobs to those without college degrees. As adversaries like Iran, China and Russia lob near-constant attacks on the U.S. digital infrastructure, ‘we…

Democrats held onto their narrow majorities in Virginia’s legislature as they won two of three special elections on Tuesday in the first ballot box showdowns of 2025. The closely-watched contests were seen by the political world as the first gauge of the mood of voters since President-elect Trump’s convincing victory…

Mark Zuckerberg, who often bends with the political winds, is getting out of the fact-checking business. And this is part of a broader effort by the Meta CEO to ingratiate himself with Donald Trump after a long and testy relationship. After a previous outcry, Zuck made a great show of…