Trump’s FBI Pick Isn’t Confirmed, and the Purges Have Already Begun

A slate of President Trump’s Cabinet nominees have appeared before senators in recent weeks for key hearings on their road to confirmation. Former Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) was the first to be confirmed, securing the secretary of State position with a unanimous vote on Inauguration Day. Other Trump picks, though, faced more resistance: Vice President…

Peter Doocy didn’t hold back any punches during Friday’s White House press briefing. The Fox News correspondent fired a series of pointed questions at White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt regarding President Donald Trump’s controversial remarks blaming the Washington D.C. aircraft collision on DEI initiatives. Doocy, who often had contentious exchanges with former president Joe Biden, had vowed earlier to extend similar treatment to Trump’s administration, Mediaite reported. He held true

How the press should cover Trump's second term.

Donald Trump has moved on from the plane crash in Washington, it seems.

Maxine Waters found herself trending on social media Friday after House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries pledged Democrats would fight President Trump's agenda "in the streets."

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials. Since taking office 11 days ago, President Donald Trump has embarked on a massive government makeover, firing and sidelining hundreds of civil servants in his first steps toward downsizing the bureaucracy and installing more loyalists.

A Learjet 55 crashed Friday night in Philadelphia, sparking a massive explosion. The FAA said six people were on board the plane.

NOAA employees reported getting spammed with explicit emails after a change in policy.

Joey Logano has found a way to tune out months of negativity. Anyone who thinks his third Cup Series championship was a fluke? “I can’t hear it because my trophies, they kind of, like, echo around me,” Logano quipped during a Zoom call with media Wednesday.

A Will County man was arrested this week after law enforcement agents allegedly found stolen vehicles in his backyard.

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Americans turn to their leaders for solace in times of mourning. Donald Trump has used national tragedies to make political points or demean critics.

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Emilia Pérez leads the pack of 2025 Oscar hopefuls with a whopping 13 nominations, but the movie has faced several different controversies. Karla Sofía Gascón is at the center of the musical drama as a powerful Mexican mob boss who hires a lawyer (Zoe Saldaña) to help her fake her death and undergoes gender-affirming surgery.

Natalie Winters defiantly clapped back at critics on Friday, warning: "I would highly suggest you don't go to war with me."

The U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday it was probing the release by an upstate New York sheriff's office of an immigrant living in the U.S. illegally, in what appears to be its first use of a new policy to target state and local agencies that do not comply with President Donald Trump's directives. The department last week directed federal prosecutors to consider criminal investigations of state and local officials if they interfere with federal immigration enforcement, in a crackdown on "sanctuary cities." The incident took place on Wednesday in Ithaca, New York, a deeply progressive city in New York's Finger Lakes region, and involved Mexican national Jesus Romero-Hernandez, 27, who had been in custody over an assault charge.

STORY: President Donald Trump's nominee for FBI director, Kash Patel, faced a fiery Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday. In an exchange with Democratic Senator Peter Welch, Patel would not say that Joe Biden won the 2020 election. WELCH: "Can you say the words - Joe Biden won the 2020 election?"PATEL: "Joe Biden is -- was the president of the United States."WELCH: "There's a difference. I can say the words 'Donald Trump won.' I don't like to say it, but I must say it. And you cannot say that Joe Biden won the election.'PATEL: "What I can say is the same for both of them, Senator. Both of their elections were certified and they are both -- one was and one now is president."Patel has previously claimed, without evidence, that the FBI used undercover operatives to entrap rioters during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. However, he appeared to break with Trump on his sweeping pardons for all of the nearly 1,600 people charged in the attack, including hundreds who were convicted of assaulting police. "I do not agree with the commutation of any sentence of any individual that committed violence against law enforcement." When asked by Welch whether he would take legal action against Trump’s opponent in the 2024 election, Kamala Harris, whom the President has called a criminal who should be prosecuted, Patel vowed to follow the constitution. "There is no prosecution or that the FBI will ever initiate because the FBI will only do investigations and those will only be opened when there is a factual and constitutional basis to do so." Democrats on their own will not be able to block Patel from being confirmed. Trump has so far succeeded in securing approval for one highly controversial nominee. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was confirmed last week in a 51-50 vote after Vice President JD Vance broke a tie caused by three Republican no votes.

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Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, insisted to deeply skeptical Democrats on Thursday that he did not have an “enemies list" and that the bureau under his leadership would not seek retribution against the president's adversaries or launch investigations for political purposes. “I have no interest, no desire and will not, if confirmed, go backwards,” Patel said at a contentious Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing at which support for the nominee broke along starkly partisan lines. The reassurances were aimed at blunting a persistent line of attack from Democrats, who throughout the hearing confronted Patel with a vast catalog of prior incendiary statements on topics that they said made him unfit for the director's job and raised alarming questions about his belief in conspiracy theories and loyalty to the president.

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President Trump implied that DEI programs could be to blame for the crash between an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army Black Hawk helicopter but cited no evidence. Former DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano joins Ana Cabrera to react to his comments and his recent actions on immigration.

President Donald Trump has ordered tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China starting Saturday, but the country’s North American neighbors will be taxed at a significantly higher rate than its East Asian rival. Goods coming from Canada and Mexico will be slapped with a 25 percent tariff, while those from China will be taxed at just 10 percent, the White House announced. Talk of tariffs has lingered since before Trump was sworn in. His press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, told reporters Friday those oft

Several top FBI executives promoted by former Director Christopher Wray were told Thursday to resign or retire and that they will be demoted or reassigned if they don’t leave, according to one current and three former bureau officials. Ken Dilanian reports.

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Claudia Sheinbaum sent a letter to Google asking the company not to comply with Trump's order to rename the Gulf of Mexico and explained why.

Air traffic controllers were emailed by the Trump administration urging them to quit their jobs and take mass “buyouts” just 24 hours after the D.C. plane crash. They were among hundreds of thousands of federal workers sent the email at 8.30 p.m. Thursday to push the extraordinary offer by Trump’s aides to get civil servants to quit en masse. The email dropped almost exactly 24 hours after an Army helicopter crashed into an American Airlines jet as it came into land at Reagan National Airport, k

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is aiming to prevent her boss from falling into the same trap as Biden, whose early presidency was infamously remembered as an expensive era for eggs

A transgender soldier has been forced to deny that she was the pilot of the helicopter that fatally collided with a jetliner after she was falsely accused by social media users. Jo Ellis, who is an Army Black Hawk pilot, confirmed in a video posted to Facebook that she is alive and had no involvement in the tragic Wednesday night crash near Washington, D.C. that claimed 67 lives. Ellis’ involvement was alleged by a number of social media posts that cited no evidence and blamed her transgender id

Michael Kosta could not believe this moment from the man President Donald Trump wants in charge of Health and Human Services.

Insults between Donald Trump and Joe Biden? Check. Trump belittling JD Vance? Check. A Barron Trump cameo? Check.

Jessica Tarlov knocked Jesse Watters over his sarcastic remark on federal workers that have been offered buyouts by the president's administration.

Fox News host Laura Ingraham pressed Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem several times as to whether she would “go after” blue state governors and mayors who interfere with undocumented migrant raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, eventually telling her, “I’m asking a question because I expect an answer.” On Thursday’s The Ingraham Angle, Ingraham led off by showing clips of the Democratic mayors of Minneapolis, Chicago and Boston each saying that undocumented m

Employees at multiple federal agencies were ordered to remove pronouns from their email signatures by Friday afternoon, according to internal memos obtained by ABC News that cited two executive orders signed by President Donald Trump on his first day in office seeking to curb diversity and equity programs in the federal government. "Pronouns and any other information not permitted in the policy must be removed from CDC/ATSDR employee signatures by 5.p.m. ET on Friday," according to one such message sent Friday morning to CDC staff.

Trump 1.0 was a Jackson Pollock—splat splat all over the place. Trump 2.0 is painting within very precise lines. It’s terrifying—but it should help plan how to fight.

Did Musk’s alleged effort to access the government’s payment systems have Trump’s blessing? Or was he going rogue? Either scenario is bad, but one’s a little worse.

The Defense Intelligence Agency has ordered a pause of all activities and events related to Martin Luther King Jr. and Black History Month.

The Georgia senator knocked Republicans for failing to choose "country over party" with their support of Donald Trump's Cabinet picks.

Donald Trump said on Friday that any collective bargaining agreements reached with federal workers within 30 days of his inauguration will not be approved, the latest salvo in the U.S. president's bid to remake the federal workforce. In a memo addressed to the heads of all executive departments and agencies, Trump said former U.S. President Joe Biden's administration purposefully finalized collective bargaining agreements with federal employees in its final days "in an effort to harm my administration by extending its wasteful and failing policies beyond its time in office."

If Trump had the facts to back up this unsubstantiated attack on DEI, he would have presented them from the podium Thursday.

At least six senior FBI leaders have been ordered to retire, resign or be fired by Monday, according to sources briefed on the matter, extending a purge that began last week at the Justice Department across the street from the FBI headquarters.

Putin is attempting to use the prospect of negotiations to buy time and gain an upper hand in the war in Ukraine, even as he slyly appeals to President Trump's ego. Trump must not let himself be fooled.

Some Democrats are cautious about reading too much into the results. But it’s the first good news they’ve had in a long time.

So you're being considered for director of the FBI, and here you did no diligence to find out whether people you were associating with, now the President of the United States in song, were convicted of attacking police officers. Is that who we want running the FBI? I want you to turn around. There are Capitol Police officers behind you. They're guarding us. Take a look at them right now. Turn around. I'm looking at you. You're talking to me. Look at them. I want you to look at them if you can. I

As the Trump administration's immigration raids ramped up across America, many people were stunned to see a former daytime TV staple take center stage — Phil McGraw, commonly known as "Dr.

Conservative journalist Bill O’Reilly condemned Republicans, including President Donald Trump for “dancing on the graves” of his media critics Jim Acosta and Neil Cavuto, who both retired from their networks recently. On his podcast, No Spin News, O’Reilly acknowledged Acosta’s recent attack on Trump was “unfair” but quickly played devil’s advocate and pointed out that both reporters were probably forced to leave because of the president’s recent influence in the media industry. “He’s not a repo

His funding freeze play was supposed to be part of a well-planned, shock-and-awe takeover. The slapdash result suggests that the minds behind MAGA 2.0 are still a slopcore mess.

The White House on Friday called for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) to apologize for remarks pledging to push back against the Trump administration’s agenda. Jeffries at a press briefing stressed “the need to look out for everyday New Yorkers and everyday Americans who are under assault by an extreme MAGA Republican agenda that…

Democrats must speak out against this.

Musk reportedly sought to access the system responsible for paying Social Security benefits and federal contracts

Ty Cobb issued the bleakest of predictions.