President-elect Trump will nominate Scott Bessent, a financier focused on global macroeconomics, as his Treasury secretary, which would make him the incoming administration's top economic official. read more
Elon Musk's former pal, philosopher Sam Harris, claimed the billionaire is in the throes of social media addiction, "snorting ketamine and tweeting at all hours of the day and night," he added in the Friday episode of his The Bulwark podcast. read more
Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton has laid into Sebastian Gorka, the president-elect's pick for counter-terrorism chief, as a "conman" whose selection is not "going to bode well for counter-terrorism efforts when the [national security council's] senior director is somebody like that". read more
Musk has taken his new role to unhinged levels. read more
Jill Filipovic: It's like the dark inverse of this (lightly paraphrased) line from The Incredibles: If everyone is super, then no one will be. This appears to be the emerging conservative mentality. If everyone is a sexual predator, then no one's history of misdeeds matters (or, at least, no one needs to be held accountable). read more
Walmart -- the world's largest retailer -- is now issuing a warning to customers that they may be paying more for the same products if President-elect Donald Trump makes good on his promise to impose new tariffs on imports. read more
In a Friday post on X, Donald Trump spokesperson Karoline Leavitt angrily railed against the New York Times and Politico for reporting that the president-elect's margin of victory had decreased in the vote count since Election Day. read more
Sonar imagery captured in January revealed a plane-shaped anomaly on the seafloor about 100 miles away (161 kilometers) from the Pacific Ocean's Howland Island -- the next location where Earhart was expected to land before she was declared lost at sea. read more
Just a couple of weeks beyond the election, some Republicans suddenly think the economy isn't so bad. Looking at the data, it seems that the Republicans feelings about their personal finances are far more politically driven than those of Democrats. It was certainly an unsuccessful battle by Democrats to convince voters that the economy was actually pretty good over the last couple of years. And the Dems got practically NO help from corporate media, determined up until the election to parrot Republican feelings instead of reporting actual economic data. read more
As if lawmakers needed any other reasons to take America's fiscal health seriously, the gross national debt of the United States has now officially reached $36 trillion. read more
A teacher in Mississippi is no longer employed after giving students what she thought was beef jerky but was actually beef treats for dogs, WTVA reported. read more
Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump's pick to lead the intelligence community, was briefly placed on a Transportation Security Administration list that prompts additional security screening before flights after her overseas travel patterns and foreign connections triggered a government algorithm earlier this year, three sources familiar with the matter told CNN. read more
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has released a long-classified memorandum shedding light on the targeted killings of Vladimir Putin's political adversaries, following nearly eight years of persistent public records efforts. read more
The judge overseeing Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial has adjourned his sentencing, which was set for next week. read more
A former aide to President-elect Donald Trump in his first administration has just received a high-profile appointment to the White House National Security Council (NSC) -- despite being a member of a far-right group with ties to Nazi Germany. read more
American defense firms should be alert for Russian actors sabotaging their operations at home and abroad as Moscow seeks to undermine support for Ukraine, US intelligence and national security agencies said Thursday read more
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