The Senate Thursday evening advanced President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Energy to a final confirmation vote. The vote was 62-35. Chris Wright, the CEO and founder…
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Kash Patel hammers ‘grotesque mischaracterizations’ from Dems amid fiery FBI confirmation hearing
Kash Patel, Trump’s nominee to lead the FBI, ripped into ‘false accusations and grotesque mischaracterizations’ from Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee at his confirmation hearing on Thursday. Patel, a…
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Trump FCC chair targets NPR, PBS for investigation ahead of Congressional threats to defund
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) launched an investigation into media outlets PBS and National Public Radio (NPR) over member stations potentially airing ‘prohibited commercial advertisements,’ according to a letter obtained…
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel testified before Senate committees on Capitol Hill on Thursday as urgency builds to confirm President Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominations. Kennedy, Trump’s…
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President Trump’s FBI director nominee Kash Patel pledged in his confirmation to end the ‘targeting’ of Americans by the government specifically as it relates to citizens who were in the…
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Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, grilled President Donald Trump’s DNI nominee Tulsi Gabbard over her previous remarks praising whistleblower Edward Snowden. ‘Until you…
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Senate set for confirmation vote on Doug Burgum, Trump’s pick to lead the Interior Department
The Senate is set for a Thursday confirmation vote for President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Interior Department, former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum. The upper chamber voted to…
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: Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jim Risch, R-Idaho, and Republican senators on Thursday are expected to roll out a measure that would prohibit the use of U.S. foreign aid…
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Kash Patel flips script on Dem senator after being grilled on J6 pardons: ‘Brutal reality check’
Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation, pushed back in his confirmation hearing after he was grilled on the president’s pardoning of January 6…
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President Donald Trump’s FBI director nominee Kash Patel was grilled Thursday over the FBI’s investigation into alleged Trump-Russia connections in the aftermath of the 2016 election, known colloquially by its…