President-elect Donald Trump nominated former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to serve as U.S. attorney general on Thursday"hours after Matt Gaetz withdrew from consideration amid sexual misconduct allegations. read more
Disturbing new details have emerged in a police report on sexual assault allegations against Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Defense. read more
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has proposed a series of remedies aimed at stopping Google from maintaining its monopoly in online search. read more
The poll also finds widespread opposition to pardoning January 6th protesters and restricting women from military combat. read more
Weeks after ProPublica reported on the deaths of two pregnant women whose miscarriages went untreated in Texas, state lawmakers have filed bills that would create new exceptions to the state's strict abortion laws, broadening doctors' ability to intervene when their patients face health risks. The legislation comes after the lawmaker who wrote one of Texas' recent abortion bans wrote an op-ed in the Houston Chronicle defending the current exceptions as "plenty clear." read more
A convicted Jan. 6 rioter has now been found guilty of plotting to murder FBI agents who were investigating the Capitol insurrection. read more
US President Joe Biden has agreed to give Ukraine anti-personnel land mines, a US defence official told the BBC, a move seen as an attempt to slow Russian troops who have been steadily advancing in Ukraine's east in recent months. read more
The international criminal court has issued arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, the county's former defence minister Yoav Gallant and the Hamas leader Mohammed Deif for alleged war crimes relating to the Gaza war. read more
Georgia officials have dismissed all members of a state committee charged with investigating deaths of pregnant women. The move came in response to ProPublica having obtained internal reports detailing two deaths. read more
Former GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz is withdrawing from consideration as President-elect Donald Trump's attorney general, he said in a post on X Thursday. read more
Republicans on the House Ethics Committee fell in line behind GOP leaders and voted not to release the results of their investigation into Donald Trump's attorney general pick, Matt Gaetz, despite growing calls from the Senate GOP to make the findings public ahead of his confirmation hearing. read more
Haley, who was Trump's most significant Republican primary opponent, argued Wednesday on her radio show against confirming Gabbard as director of national intelligence and Kennedy to lead Health and Human Services. read more
The House Ethics Committee obtained records, including a check and records of Venmo payments, that appear to show that then-Rep. Matt Gaetz paid more than $10,000 to two women who were later witnesses in sexual misconduct probes conducted by both the House and the Justice Department, according to documents obtained by ABC News. read more
The shortage may last months as the US expects an increase in hospitalizations due to respiratory virus season. read more
North Carolina Republican lawmakers voted to strip the state's incoming Democratic governor and attorney general of key powers, passing a sweeping bill before the GOP likely loses their veto-proof supermajority in the Legislature next year. read more
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Wednesday he is banning transgender individuals from accessing bathrooms on the House side of the Capitol complex that correspond to their gender identity. read more
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