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President-elect rebuked by Republican House Intelligence Committee chair over Department of Justice actions during his first administration
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Your support makes all the difference.Donald Trump has been attacked by Republican Representative Mike Turner, who chairs the House Intelligence Committee, after it emerged that the Department of Justice (DOJ) had spied on members of Congress and dozens of staffers during his first administration.
Responding to the new report into the matter by Inspector General Michael Horowitz, Turner told CNN the Trump DOJ had committed a “grave constitutional violation” and described the department’s conduct as “outrageous”.
The president-elect has meanwhile nominated his son’s fiancee, Kimberly Guilfoyle, to serve as the next United States ambassador to Greece, making her the latest Trump family member to join his administration.
Guilfoyle is a close ally of the president-elect’s family and helped out his election campaigns in both 2020 and 2024.
“I look forward to delivering on the Trump agenda, supporting our Greek allies, and ushering in a new era of peace and prosperity,” she wrote in an X post accepting the honor.
However, the development comes amid rumors that she and Donald Trump Jr have split up, after he was pictured with Florida socialite Bettina Anderson.
The couple have not commented on the speculation.
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Trump ‘can’t guarantee’ tariffs won’t hurt Americans
Donald Trump can’t promise the sweeping set of tariffs he has threatened to impose on the nation’s major trading partners won’t hike consumer prices.
During an interview on Sunday with NBC News, anchor Kristen Welker asked the president-elect about the widespread economic consensus that his plans to tariff China, Mexico, and Canada risk triggering inflation and raising prices.
“I can’t guarantee anything,” Trump said. “I can’t guarantee tomorrow.”
Josh Marcus reports.
Trump says he’s ‘can’t guarantee’ tariffs won’t hurt Americans
Trump said tariffs ‘make us rich,’ even as economists predict measures would raise prices for consumers
ANALYSIS: Netanyahu makes it clear — Biden is no longer in charge
John Bowden reports:
Is Joe Biden still calling the shots in the Middle East? That certainly doesn’t seem to be what Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s Trump-loving prime minister, is saying.
Washington awoke this week to news that broke early Sunday morning of the fall of the Assad regime — an end to one of the most murderous and oppressive dictatorships in the world, one that had persisted since the 1970s through consecutive US administrations which opposed it.
As Syrians celebrated across Damascus and elsewhere in the country, other powers in the region took action. Citing a supposed threat from anti-Israel militant groups in a country now undergoing a massive political upheaval, Israeli troops occupied five villages across the Golan Heights, an area in Syria’s southwest. It also struck countless other targets across the country.
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Netanyahu has made it clear: Biden’s no longer in charge
US-Israel policy appears to now be fully running through Mar-a-Lago after shocking developments in the Golan Heights, writes John Bowden
Trump and DeSantis spoke about Lara Trump and vacant Florida Senate seat
President-elect Donald Trump has spoken to his former primary rival, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, about appointing his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, to the senate seat that’s expected to be vacated by secretary of state nominee Senator Marco Rubio, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Lara Trump, 42, stepped down from her post as co-chair of the Republican National Committee Sunday. She took the role earlier this year to help her father-in-law get elected to a second term.
Gustaf Kilander reports.
Trump talked to DeSantis about giving Lara Trump a Florida Senate seat
President-elect’s daughter-in-law says she’s ‘always happy to have’ Trump last name
Biden: Trump dismantling ‘strongest economy in modern history’ would be a ‘major mistake’
President Joe Biden on Tuesday said he is bequeathing President-elect Donald Trump what he described as “the strongest economy in modern history” and “the envy of the world” while warning that efforts by the next administration to roll back his economic policies would result in great harm to Americans’ pocketbooks.
Andrew Feinberg reports from Washington, DC.
Mitch McConnell fell during Senate lunch
Republican Senator Mitch McConnell fell during a Senate lunch today.
A medical team with a wheelchair was seen entering his office. Outgoing minority leader McConnell, 82, has had medical issues in the past. He was escorted back to his office by Senate Republican Conference Chair John Barrasso, who hosted the lunch meeting, The Hill reports.
There are also reports that McConnell was seen with a cut on his face.
Profile: Scott Pressler — gay conservative political activist vowing to turn New Jersey red
Scott Presler, the gay conservative political activist who took credit for helping Donald Trump turn Pennsylvania red, is now vowing to do the same in New Jersey.
The last time the Garden State voted for a Republican presidential candidate was in 1988, but Presler thinks the tides are turning.
With New Jersey’s gubernatorial race less than a year away, the controversial campaigner is on a mission to turn the blue state red.
Rhian Lubin reports.
Who is Scott Presler? Gay conservative activist vowing to turn New Jersey red
With New Jersey’s gubernatorial race less than a year away, the controversial campaigner is on a mission to turn the blue state red
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