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President-elect Trump is enjoying a honeymoon period in the wake of his election victory, largely staying out of the spotlight as positive developments have piled up. But the postelection period has not been entirely free of drama for Trump, however, as one of his Cabinet nominees, former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), has already withdrawn, and another, Pete Hegseth, is facing allegations of sexual assault that cloud his chances of confirmation. Here are five reasons Trump is riding high three weeks after Election Day. |
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Several appointees and nominees picked to be a part of President-elect Trump's upcoming administration were targeted with threats this week, just days ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. Trump's incoming White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement on Wednesday that "several" of the president-elect's Cabinet choices were targeted with "swatting" calls and bomb threats. Swatting calls are false emergency calls directed at the person's home. Here is the list of Trump's picks that were targeted with threats this week. |
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Wednesday the threats against President-elect Trump's nominees and appointees are "dangerous and unhinged" and called on President Biden and other Democratic Party leaders to condemn the incidents.
"This year, there was not just one but TWO assassination attempts on President Trump," Johnson said in a Wednesday post on social platform X, referring to a shooting during a Pennsylvania rally over the summer when Trump's ear was grazed with a bullet and another incident at his Florida golf club where agents thwarted an apparent attempt on his life before shots were fired. |
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President-elect Trump said he had a "very productive" conversation with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum. "Just had a wonderful conversation with the new President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo," Trump posted Wednesday to his Truth Social site. "She has agreed to stop Migration through Mexico, and into the United States, effectively closing our Southern Border." Sheinbaum confirmed it was an "excellent conversation." |
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The race for key Senate contests in 2026 is already getting underway, with a few major potential candidates hinting they may join the race. Republicans won back control of the Senate in the 2024 elections in early November, picking up four seats for a 53-47 majority in the body, the largest margin for either party since the 2018 midterms. Democrats will now seek to go back on offense to try to win the majority and place a check on the incoming Trump administration. Here are the seven most competitive Senate races to watch for in 2026. |
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President Biden's announcement Tuesday of a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon marked a significant foreign policy achievement weeks before he leaves office. The halt in fighting provides desperately needed calm for Israeli and Lebanese civilians along the border — and a chance to return to abandoned communities — after nearly 14 months of intensive rocket fire, airstrikes and an Israeli ground invasion into southern Lebanon. Here are five takeaways from the deal. |
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The 5-year-old U.S. Space Force is moving quickly to confront what is becoming its priority challenge: the threat of anti-satellite weapons (ASATs) from foreign adversaries, including Russia and China.
The Space Force is building up its space defense architecture to help modernize the Space Surveillance Network (SSN), which monitors objects and potential threats in space. It comes as the military branch has struggled to close gaps in space domain awareness. |
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Elon Musk recently suggested retired Army Lt. Col Alexander Vindman "committed treason" and "will pay" after the former Trump impeachment witness accused the tech billionaire and close Trump ally of being unwittingly used by Russia. "Vindman is on the payroll of Ukranian oligarchs and has committed treason against the United States," Musk wrote on his social media platform X, responding to comments Vindman made in an interview about Musk's reported conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin |
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President-elect Trump on Wednesday announced his appointment of Keith Kellogg, a retired lieutenant general who served as chief of staff on Trump's National Security Council during his first term, as special envoy to Ukraine and Russia. Trump praised Kellogg as being with him "right from the beginning" and noted his distinguished military and business career. "Together, we will secure PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH, and Make America, and the World, SAFE AGAIN!" the president-elect said in a statement. |
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TikTok announced this week that it will restrict the use of some appearance effects for users under 18 after teens and parents in a new study expressed concerns about the impact of beauty filters. The restrictions will not apply to effects that are "obvious and funny," like animal ear filters, but rather those designed to alter a user's appearance, the social media site said Tuesday. |
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BY BARBARA COMSTOCK AND CHARLIE DENT |
OPINION | As the electoral dust of 2024 settles, newly elected lawmakers will begin shaping their policy agendas for 2025. Republicans have a unique opportunity to pass meaningful policy initiatives to bring the much-desired change Americans voted for. This election was contentious and divisive, but as we look to a new Congress and administration, we should look for opportunities for consensus and unity. |
OPINION | The Trump transition team may think it has a game plan to install controversial nominees in Cabinet jobs, but the conservative Supreme Court is likely to block it. The regular order would be for the Senate to take up the nominees on inauguration day and quickly confirm them. Several of Donald Trump's picks, however, are already under fire for lack of qualifications or questionable personal behaviors. |
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BY JULIAN E. BARNES, ADAM RASGON AND AARON BOXERMAN |
Hamas has long believed that a wider war in the Middle East would help deliver the organization a victory in its war with Israel. But the cease-fire deal to stop the fighting between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah has left that strategy in tatters, potentially removing Hamas's most important ally from the fight, according to U.S. officials. The agreement is a step forward for the Biden administration, which has tried to contain that wider war and increase pressure on Hamas to make a deal with Israel and release the hostages it holds in Gaza. |
Wall Street isn't thrilled about the return of President-elect Trump's tariff threats. But traders are hardly panicking either. Shares of automakers were hit hard this week after the president-elect promised to levy hefty tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico on his first day in office, along with additional tariffs on Chinese goods. Canadian railroad companies slumped, while Mexican and Canadian currencies weakened against the U.S. dollar. Even so, broad indexes of stocks pushed higher, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbing to yet another record on Tuesday. |
BY MARK THIESSEN AND BECKY BOHRER |
In the remotest reaches of Alaska, there's no relying on DoorDash to have Thanksgiving dinner — or any dinner — delivered. But some residents living well off the grid nevertheless have turkeys this holiday, thanks to the Alaska Turkey Bomb. For the third straight year, a resident named Esther Keim has been flying low and slow in a small plane over rural parts of south-central Alaska, dropping frozen turkeys to those who can't simply run out to the grocery store. |
Soon after winning the election, President-elect Trump announced that he wanted to install Todd Blanche, one of his criminal defense attorneys, as the No. 2 official in the Justice Department. Blanche would fix "a broken System of Justice," Trump declared in a statement. Days later, Blanche was hard at work in his current role, signing a court filing that derided one of the cases against Trump as "politically-motivated and fatally flawed" and argued that it should be dismissed. |
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