“Kamala says she wasn’t going to go quietly but she has been as quiet as a mime. Mamala just launched a blog though. And we clicked on it and she wants our email address so she can ask us for money. And she needs it because grocery prices are ridiculous. She just found out about inflation. The New York Post …

NBC News reports: A Republican House member introduced a resolution Thursday to amend the U.S. Constitution in order to allow President Donald Trump — and any other future president — to be elected to a third term in the White House. Trump “has proven himself to be the only figure in modern history capable of reversing our nation’s decay and …

Deadline reports: The Associated Press has weighed in on how it will respond to President Donald Trump‘s executive order changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and the name of Alaska’s Denali back to Mount McKinley. The guidance is significant as the AP Stylebook has widespread acceptance across the news industry. In a note …

Ars Technica reports: Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr has revived three complaints against broadcast stations accused of bias against President Donald Trump. The revived complaints target WNBC in New York, WCBS in New York, and 6 ABC in Philadelphia. The complaints were filed by the Center for American Rights and supported Trump’s claims of bias regarding ABC’s fact-checking during …

Courthouse News reports: Congressional representatives in Alabama, where more than 64% of voters supported President Donald Trump in 2024, are increasingly confident Trump will reward their loyalty by prioritizing an administrative plan to move the headquarters of the U.S. Space Command from Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado to Redstone Arsenal in the city of Huntsville. In a phone call …

The Washington Post reports: The Trump administration is moving to abolish a Pentagon office responsible for promoting civilian safety in battlefield operations, suggesting that incoming Defense Department leaders may attempt to loosen restrictions on U.S. military operations worldwide. The office, housed within the Department of the Army, is tasked with helping the military to limit unintended civilian deaths. Trump’s nominee …

The Guardian reports: The US state department has frozen all applications for passports with “X” sex markers and changes to gender identity on existing passports, following a new executive order signed by Donald Trump on his first day of office. In an internal cable obtained by the Guardian, the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, instructed department staff on Thursday to …

The Associated Press reports: Pete Hegseth, President Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, paid $50,000 to the woman who accused him of sexual assault in 2017, according to answers he provided to a senator during his confirmation process that The Associated Press has obtained. The answers were provided to Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren in response to additional questions she …

Politico reports: President Donald Trump’s key aides and allies are furious with Elon Musk for publicly trashing his $500 billion artificial intelligence mega-deal. A White House official said Musk “very much” got over his skis when the tech tycoon launched a daylong screed against the AI project. One Trump ally said Musk abused his closeness to the president. Another Republican …

The Canadian Press reports: A Catholic priest’s sex assaults on Inuit children decades ago in Igloolik, Nvt., transformed a once friendly and trusting hamlet into a place marred by anger and addiction, court heard Thursday. Wails and shouts could be heard in the Iqaluit courtroom where Eric Dejaeger pleaded guilty to indecent assaults against six girls and one boy between …

The Buenos Aires Times reports: President Javier Milei defended Elon Musk, attacked the “cancer” of “wokeism” and hailed Argentina as “a global example” of “fiscal responsibility” on Thursday as he delivered a keynote speech to world leaders. “The mental virus of woke ideology,” argued Milei, is “an epidemic which is destroying the foundations of Western civilisation.” “Feminism, the LGBT agenda, …

Louisville’s NPR affiliate reports: A Kentuckian recently charged with assaulting officers had his charges dropped Wednesday before facing trial. Andrew Kyle Grigsby of Louisville was indicted just last week on five felonies, alleged to have used bear spray against officers. Though a federal judge granted a motion to dismiss Grigsby’s charges Wednesday, he is not yet a free man. He …

The Associated Press reports: President Donald Trump signed pardons Thursday for 23 anti-abortion protesters whom the White House said were prosecuted under his predecessor Joe Biden’s administration. “They should not have been prosecuted. Many of them are elderly people,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office the day before a major anti-abortion march in Washington. “This is a great honor …

“The eradication of DEI needs to go far beyond the federal government. I mean, it’s got to trickle down to every level of both federal and state and local government and into the private sector, which is the plan, like we talked about in the opening. We need to be done with this madness. “If we’re being honest, female cops …

Mediaite reports: Jonathan Greenblatt, the head of the Anti-Defamation League, responded to Elon Musk on Thursday after the Tesla billionaire and close Trump ally posted a joke related to Nazis. Musk has been at the center of a heated debate over whether or not he made two Nazi salutes during a speech on Monday night. He has since spent the …

NBC News reports: The Senate on Thursday voted to advance Pete Hegseth’s nomination to be President Donald Trump’s defense secretary, setting up a final confirmation vote for the end of the week. Senators voted by the narrowest of margins, 51 to 49, to advance Hegseth’s bid to lead the Pentagon, with just two Republicans — moderate Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, …

The New York Times reports: Republican leaders are plowing ahead with their drive to confirm Mr. Hegseth, as Democrats who have called him unfit to lead the Pentagon work to persuade a handful of G.O.P. senators to join them in opposition. They are pointing to a sworn statement submitted to the Senate on Tuesday by a former sister-in-law of Mr. …

USA Today reports: The Senate on Thursday easily confirmed President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, John Ratcliffe, making him the second key player to join the new Republican administration’s national security and foreign policy team. Ratcliffe, who formerly served as director of national Intelligence in Trump’s first term, won on a 74-25 vote. The Senate confirmed …

The Washington Post reports: An aide to House Speaker Mike Johnson advised Republican colleagues against subpoenaing former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson as part of their investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attacking an effort to prevent the release of sexually explicit texts that lawmakers sent her. In a meeting following the June conversation, Johnson (R-Louisiana.) and senior aides also …

ABC News reports: A Massachusetts man was found to be carrying a gun after attending a tour of the U.S. Capitol as he left the nearby Library of Congress on Tuesday, police officials told ABC News on Thursday. Authorities in Washington were alerted by police in Carlisle, Massachusetts, on Monday that a man with a gun who had expressed suicidal …