Rubio: Here's the problem with vetting people. You can't have a perfect vet no matter who that person is, for a couple reasons. The first is we don't -- you can only vet information that exists, right? So it is possible that in many cases there are things about these people you just don't know. No matter how much you vet them, you just don't have certain information. And in some parts of the world where there's very limited documentation, very limited, you can't just go out and interview people in many cases because of the presence of the Taliban, et cetera. It becomes very difficult. Read more
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Frank Gehry, who designed some of the most imaginative buildings ever constructed and achieved a level of worldwide acclaim seldom afforded any architect, has died. He was 96. Gehry died Friday in his home in Santa Monica after a brief respiratory illness, said Meaghan Lloyd, chief of staff at Gehry Partners LLP. Gehry's fascination with modern pop art led to the creation of distinctive, striking buildings. Among his many masterpieces are the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; The Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and Berlin's DZ Bank Building. Read more
"America Alone" is a 33-page screed filled with grievances that rejects European allies, conceding the US must share global hegemony with China, all while searching for new allies in the Western Hemisphere.
CNN reports Brian Cole Jr., the suspect arrested in the nearly five-year investigation into who planted two viable pipe bombs near the U.S. Capitol on the eve of the January 6, 2021 attack, was a supporter of President Donald Trump and a believer in his election conspiracy theories. And now, some critics are wondering whether his involvement in activities related to the insurrection grant him a pardon.
A federal judge in Florida has ordered the release of material from grand jury investigations into sex offender Jeffrey Epstein from 2005 and 2007.
President Trump has made increasingly sweeping claims about new investments flowing into the United States, citing figures as high as $21 trillion since taking office. "Twenty-one trillion dollars will be the amount invested in the United States " or committed to invest " in one year," the president said in a November meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. In an Oval Office event this Wednesday, President Trump said, "In 10 months, we have $18 trillion being invested." But a CBS News review found no evidence that total commitments or new investments approach the scale the president has cited. While companies and foreign governments have announced large-scale projects since Mr. Trump's inauguration, the White House has not provided documentation showing total investments approaching $21 trillion " an amount roughly two-thirds of the annual GDP.
Kash Patel's girlfriend issues are not going away with MS NOW reporting that the embattled FBI director has ordered agents to act as Uber drivers and deliver one his girlfriend's "inebriated" pals home. According to the report from Ken Dilanian and Carol Leonning, on more than one occasion the friend needed a ride home but could not drive and the FBI SWAT team assigned to Patel's girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, objected, only to be overruled. The report notes Wilkins asked "FBI agents on her security team at least two times, including once this spring, to drive her friend home, and agents objected to diverting from their assignment, said the sources, who were granted anonymity to discuss nonpublic matters. But Patel insisted they do as Wilkins requested and in one case called the leader of Wilkins' security detail and yelled at him to do so."
A man pardoned by President Donald Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol returned to Washington in recent days and has been wandering the neighborhood of Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin " alarming police and prosecutors, who urged a judge to immediately jail him. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, who convicted Taylor Taranto at a bench trial this year for a threat to federal buildings and for bringing weapons to President Barack Obama's D.C. neighborhood, did not immediately order him back to prison, but said he would weigh the request over the next few weeks. Read more
the little horror gets a fake peace prize, too
Sources familiar with internal discussions say Trump, 79, was left fuming as a growing stream of reporting from publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, and CNN, scrutinized the signs of his apparent deteriorating health.
The DODIG report is 65 pages long and mildly redacted.
The malevolent Trumpf junta has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to America's national parks, removing two holidays celebrating people of color and adding the Dotard-in-Chief's unpopular birthday.
USAG Pam Bondi has instructed inspectors to stop evaluating prisons and jails using standards designed to protect transgender, intersex, and gender-nonconforming people who are uniquely vulnerable to sexual attacks while incarcerated.
Two weeks after a federal court obliterated the indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James"exposing Donald Trump's brazenly illegal installation of Lindsey Halligan inside the Justice Department"the DOJ has now suffered a second humiliating failure to indict her, further underscoring the chaos unleashed by Trump's reckless meddling.
Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold summit talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Friday, aiming to boost trade with the top buyer of Russia's arms and seaborne oil as Western sanctions squeeze their decades-old ties.
GREENWIRE | President Donald Trump plans to announce Wednesday that his team is rolling back Biden-era auto standards aimed at boosting fuel economy and cutting emissions. Trump plans to make the announcement from the White House at an event featuring auto executives, a White House official confirmed Wednesday. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt previewed the event on social media featuring a news story calling the move a "reset" of fuel standards that will save money for consumers
