Federal official warns $191 billion in covid unemployment aid may have been misspent
The new estimate -- compiled by Larry D. Turner, the inspector general of the Labor Department — is likely to galvanize House Republicans as they look to intensify their scrutiny of the roughly $5 trillion in emergency funds approved since the start of the crisis.
washingtonpost.comTrump responds: Biden leading US to 'brink of World War III,' vows to reverse 'disasters' if elected in 2024
Former President Trump accused President Biden of leading the US to “the brink of World War III,” and vowed to “complete the unfinished business of making America great again.”
foxnews.comGOP response: Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders slams President Biden for ‘woke fantasies’
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is returning to the national stage Tuesday night with a rebuttal to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address that accuses the president of focusing on “woke fantasies.”
chicagotribune.comTrump amplifies posts claiming DeSantis was 'grooming high school girls'
Former President Donald Trump escalated his attacks on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday, seizing on a story that his rival for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination partied with underage students when he worked as a teacher at a Georgia high school.
news.yahoo.comTrump shares old photo of DeSantis appearing to party with teen girls when he was teacher
Things are getting ugly fast between Don and Ron. Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday shared a 21-year-old photo purportedly showing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis partying with teenage girls when he was a teacher at their school. “That’s not Ron is it?” Trump wrote sarcastically on his social media site. “He would never do such a thing.” The 45th president later shared the same photo along ...
news.yahoo.comTrump rape case judge is losing patience with defense requests to delay: 'Things keep happening in this case involving your client'
Trump's new lawyer in the case brought by E. Jean Carroll asked for a six-week delay to the trial, which would push it from April all the way to June.
news.yahoo.comTrump rape case judge is losing patience with defense requests to delay: 'Things keep happening in this case involving your client'
Trump's new lawyer in the case brought by E. Jean Carroll asked for a six-week delay to the trial, which would push it from April all the way to June.
news.yahoo.comTrump rips Club for Growth after he wasn’t invited to donor retreat
Former President Donald Trump lashed out on Tuesday against the Club for Growth, a leading conservative group, after he was left off the guest list of its annual donor retreat. In a post on his social media site, Truth Social, Trump ripped the group as the “Club For NO Growth,” and recounted how his ties to…
news.yahoo.comBiden admin under fire for pursuing diversity over merit: They're finding people 'who aren't highly-skilled'
Project 21 co-chairman Horace Cooper reacts to President Biden's judicial nominees and reports that out of 97 confirmed federal judges, only five are white on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.'
foxnews.comManhattan DA was 'weeks' away from filing criminal charges against Trump in 2020, when he was still president, former prosecutor says
Mark Pomerantz details in his new book that the DA's office wanted to charge Trump for allegedly undervaluing his stake in a Manhattan building.
news.yahoo.comAll About Stock Buybacks, a $1 Trillion Market Force
Picture yourself as the CEO of a big, publicly traded company. You want your stock to go up, both to keep shareholders happy and justify a big bonus. One option is to invest your profits in developing new products, building factories or opening stores, but boosting your stock price that way is hard. It’s much easier to have the company buy its own stock. Stock buybacks, as they are known, have come to represent the largest source of demand for US equities, and rose above $1 trillion for the firs
washingtonpost.comAfter US pops 1st balloon, China admits the 2nd one floating over Latin America is also theirs and gave the same excuse that it was just lost
China's Foreign Ministry said the craft was a lost civilian balloon, the same explanation it gave for a suspected spy balloon that drifted over the US.
news.yahoo.comWhite House: Improved surveillance caught Chinese balloon
U.S. officials say efforts ordered by President Joe Biden to strengthen defenses against Chinese espionage helped identify last week’s spy balloon — and determine that similar flights were conducted at multiple points during the Trump administration.
Family of 3 found dead in apparent suicide pact were 'hell-bent' on Trump winning, thought it could be 'the end' if he lost: reports
A family of three was found shot dead in their Pennsylvania backyard last week. Police are describing it as a suicide pact, citing handwritten notes.
news.yahoo.comGOP insiders warn Nikki Haley lacks support, will have to 'prove' herself as 2024 presidential field expands
While some GOP strategists warn against underestimating Nikki Haley, others say she lacks a constituency and has a lot of work to do to "prove" herself in the 2024 presidential race.
foxnews.comABC anchor calls out Sen. Marco Rubio during tense exchange over Chinese spy balloon: 'This happened 3 times under the previous president'
ABC's Jonathan Karl called out Sen. Marco Rubio during a tense exchange about the Chinese spy balloon. Rubio said Biden should not have "waited so long" to tell people about the balloon. ABC anchor Jonathan Karl called out Sen. Marco Rubio during a tense exchange on Sunday about the Chinese spy balloon.
news.yahoo.comTrump, Christie exchange fire after gloomy 2024 prediction
Former President Trump and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) sparred online Sunday after Christie predicted that Trump couldn’t beat President Biden if they run against each other in the 2024 presidential election. Christie, who endorsed Trump in 2016 after dropping his own campaign for the presidency but has since become a vocal Trump…
news.yahoo.comEx-prosecutor's new book details fight over indicting Trump
As the Manhattan district attorney’s office again ramps up its yearslong investigation of Donald Trump, a new book by a former prosecutor who once led the probe details just how close the former president came to getting indicted — and laments friction with the new D.
Hunter Biden seeks federal probe of Trump allies over laptop
A lawyer for President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, has asked the Justice Department to investigate close allies of former President Donald Trump and others who accessed and disseminated personal data from a laptop that a computer repair shop owner says was dropped off at his Delaware store in 2019.
Cohen says DA took phones for renewed Trump hush-money probe
Donald Trump’s long-estranged former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, says Manhattan prosecutors recently took his cellphones to preserve evidence related to a hush-money payment he made to porn actress Stormy Daniels in the waning weeks of the 2016 presidential campaign.
Ex-Indiana Gov. Daniels won’t seek state’s open Senate seat
Former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels says he won't seek that state’s open U.S. Senate seat next year, ending weeks of speculation about whether the longtime Republican figure would enter a possibly vicious GOP primary fight with a combative defender of former President Donald Trump.