Author: Matt

FBI Director Kash Patel went to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday prepared to answer questions about the bureau’s leadership, hiring and direction. Then Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana arrived at the subject nobody was likely expecting to dominate the clip reel. Kennedy wanted to know why the FBI had changed a hiring rule involving applicants who had engaged in bestiality. His question was plain enough to need no improvement: why would the bureau even get into bestiality?

The viral image that appears to show President Donald Trump kissing aide Natalie Harp on a golf course is fake. There is no verified photograph establishing that the kiss happened, and the White House has publicly described the circulating image as fabricated.

The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate Wednesday for the first time since 2023 in an effort to quell stubbornly-high inflation, a move that could spur a sharp response from the White House.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday went after the Supreme Court after it rejected his push to restrict mail-in voting in this year’s midterms, saying justices who opposed him were “not the people I interviewed.”

President Donald Trump on Wednesday floated renaming the Strait of Hormuz — the central point of contention in the ongoing war against Iran that the U.S. and Israel started — after himself.

A coalition of 9/11 family members, first responders, and elected officials gathered on the steps of City Hall on Tuesday to deliver a message to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani: stay away from this year’s Sept. 11 memorial service.

President Donald Trump gave sizable holiday gifts to four White House aides, according to new financial disclosures released by the administration.

Canada’s retaliatory tariffs on US goods took effect ​just after midnight on Tuesday as Prime Minister Mark Carney increased economic pressure on his country’s ‌biggest trading partner after negotiations collapsed last month, intensifying an 18-month–old trade war.

About 170,000 travelers were left stranded in Indonesia after a volcano erupted, causing ash to drift across the country.

The plane was part of Amazon’s cargo fleet and was flying from Puerto Rico. It struck several vehicles as it ran off the runway, local officials said.