Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky voted against President Donald Trump’s nominee to be secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth.The vote came down to the wire Friday night, with all Democrats and three Republicans voting against the nomination.McConnell was one of those three “no” votes, along with Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Sen. Susan Collins of…
United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts Jr. hopes that the Democrats’ election loss can be the much-needed “wake-up” call the party needs to reach the “next generation.” Roberts was one of several Democrats featured in a lengthy Vanity Fair article Tuesday about the aftermath of the 2024 election which saw President Donald Trump…
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday visited areas of the United States affected by natural disasters. He was in the state of North Carolina, which was hard hit by Hurricane Helen last September, and he toured parts of Southern California, where wildfires are still burning. Genia Dulot has our story from Los Angeles.This post was…
The re-election of Donald Trump as President of the United States in the 2024 election has set the stage for a renewed focus on US-Saudi relations. This development has spurred a flurry of diplomatic and strategic initiatives from Riyadh, aimed at bolstering ties with the incoming administration. Saudi Arabia’s leadership, led by King Salman and…
LOS ANGELES — U.S. President Donald Trump surveyed disaster zones in California and North Carolina on Friday and said he was considering “getting rid of” the Federal Emergency Management Agency, offering the latest sign of how he is weighing sweeping changes to the nation’s central organization for responding to disasters. In fire-ravaged California, the state’s…
WASHINGTON — As U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term gets underway, the contours of his administration’s South Asia policy are taking shape: India stands front and center, while other regional countries such as Bangladesh and Pakistan prepare to be sidelined. “With the exception of India, which is a large but special case, the other countries…
If there is a leader in the aerospace industry, SpaceX is it. The company’s Crew Dragon and Cargo Dragon spacecrafts are the current go-to vehicles to deliver astronauts and supplies to the International Space Station. NASA contracts awarded to SpaceX through 2030 alone are worth nearly US$5 billion and include research and development for the…
Some liberal parents face a new, unexpected challenge: how to talk to their children who support Donald Trump. It is easy for Alex Behr to gush about her son, Eli, whom she describes as a generous and thoughtful college junior who had a serious skateboarding phase. It is much harder for her to talk about…
Organizers and attendees at this week’s annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, had to have been shocked at the new tone from the United States after four years of subservient obeisance from Joe Biden and his ineffective emissaries. In a wide-ranging speech via videoconference on Thursday, President Donald Trump essentially…
In 2016, Herschel Hepler was browsing Google Images to practice his paleography — the study of historical writing systems — when he stumbled upon an eerily familiar photo that would lead to a groundbreaking discovery. “I recognized it immediately and said, ‘That’s a manuscript in our collection,’” Hepler, a curator at the Museum of the…