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Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead via Flickr (WASHINGTON) — President-elect Donald Trump continues to announce his picks for top jobs inside his administration, most recently naming nominees for energy secretary and to helm the Federal Communications Commission. Meanwhile, fallout continues for former Rep. Matt Gaetz, Trump’s choice to serve as attorney general. The […]
ABC News (ATHENS, Ga.) — The suspect accused of murdering Laken Riley on the University of Georgia’s campus was found guilty by a judge on all charges Wednesday, including malice murder and felony murder. He was sentenced by the judge to life in prison without the possibility of parole, the maximum possible. Prosecutors called the […]
Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images (AUSTIN, Texas) — Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham is offering the incoming Trump administration 1,402 acres it purchased along the Texas-Mexico border to be used in a mass deportation operation. In a letter to President-elect Donald Trump, Buckingham said she’s offering the land “to be used to construct deportation facilities.” […]
RCA Records/Since ’93/Loris Russier Tems has released the music video for “Turn Me Up.” The video was shot by Loris Russier in Jamaica, aligning with the song’s Caribbean, Afropop sound. It finds her singing in the passenger seat of a car and showcasing her dance skills in various backgrounds, with a group of men surrounding her […]
Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Speaker Mike Johnson said transgender women cannot use women’s restrooms in the Capitol and House office buildings. This also applies to changing rooms and locker rooms, Johnson said. “All single-sex facilities in the Capitol and House Office Buildings — such as restrooms, changing rooms, and locker […]
Libby March/Bloomberg via Getty Images (ROCHESTER, N.Y.) — Four University of Rochester students were arrested and another is under investigation for allegedly being involved with the antisemitic “Wanted” posters found on campus. The posters were discovered last week in classrooms and other buildings and targeted Jewish members of the community, according to university officials. The four unidentified […]
ABC News (BELLEVUE, Wash.) — Two people have been killed by falling trees in Washington state as a powerful storm hits the Pacific Northwest. In Bellevue, a tree fell into a home, hitting and killing a woman while she was in the shower Tuesday night, Bellevue fire officials said. In Lynwood, a woman in her […]
CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, one of his first orders of business will be to decide about the fate of TikTok in the United States — and some of his cabinet appointees appear to be split on the issue. Sources familiar with the president-elect’s thinking told ABC […]
Disney/Stewart Cook Viola Davis has been named the recipient of the Golden Globes’ Cecil B. DeMille Award, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced Wednesday. She’ll be recognized at the annual show for her outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment. “Viola Davis is a luminary whose profound talent has continuously shifted the lens through which we see […]
Hannah Beier/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHNGTON) — Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be attorney general, is meeting with senators on Capitol Hill Wednesday morning alongside Vice President-elect JD Vance, making his case for the job hours before the House Ethics Committee is set to discuss its report on him. Several senators have called […]
