Christopher Krebs, the top federal cybersecurity official who was fired by President Trump last week due to his efforts to dispel concerns on 2020 election safety, said claims of foreign meddling this year are “farcical.”In an excerpt… Source: The Hill
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Republicans are mulling what direction their party will take from here, now that it is finally crystal clear President Trump will leave the White House in January. Two big questions dominate. Firstly, what kind of role will Trump himself seek?… Source: The Hill
President Trump railed against Twitter in late night tweets on Thanksgiving, criticizing its trends algorithm and “big Conservative discrimination.”The president slammed the social media platform for “sending out totally false ‘Trends’ that have… Source: The Hill
President Trump’s Thanksgiving eve pardon of Michael Flynn, his former national security adviser, is prompting questions about who else might win clemency in the president’s final weeks in office. Speculation over whether Trump would offer… Source: The Hill
President Trump on Thursday said he would leave the White House on Jan. 20 if the Electoral College declares President-elect Joe Biden the winner of the election, but indicated he was not prepared to concede defeat.”Certainly I will. And you know… Source: The Hill
President-elect Joe Biden campaigned on the promise that he would repair “the soul of the nation.” But now he faces the challenge of making that pledge a reality.It won’t be easy. The nation’s divisions have been deepening for decades, a process… Source: The Hill
President Trump used a Thanksgiving tweet to renew his criticism of NFL players kneeling in calls for social justice, retweeting a tweet and image of Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson and Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford, who both… Source: The Hill
President Trump issued a proclamation encouraging Americans to gather “in homes and places of worship” ahead of Thanksgiving, even as his successor and public health officials have urged people to practice social distancing and avoid large… Source: The Hill
President-elect Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, penned an op-ed published on Thursday wishing everyone a happy Thanksgiving, even if people are apart from family amid the pandemic.The incoming first couple also thanked front-line… Source: The Hill
President Trump’s final 50 days in the White House are shaping up to be as precedent-breaking as the rest of his tenure, which has deeply divided the nation and ended with him becoming the first president in nearly 30 years to be defeated after one… …
John Barsa, the acting administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), tested positive for COVID-19, a spokesperson confirmed Wednesday.Acting USAID spokesperson Pooja Jhunjhunwala told The Hill in a statement that… Source: The Hill
The Department of Justice filed an appeal Wednesday in columnist E. Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit against President Trump, after a court ruled against the department’s efforts to replace the president as the defendant in the lawsuit, according… Source: The Hill
House Democrats are asking the Trump administration to turn over a list of employees who will be slotted into a new category of federal employment that critics fear will be used to retain Trump political appointees. The request, made to 61… Source: The Hill
Andrew Weissmann, a deputy to former special counsel Robert Mueller, said Tuesday that the next attorney general under President-elect Joe Biden should investigate President Trump.Weissmann in a New York Times op-ed said that any investigation or… Source: The Hill
President Trump on Wednesday pardoned Michael Flynn, his first national security adviser who pleaded guilty to a charge in connection with former special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.Trump announced the decision in a tweet, saying… Source: The Hill
President Trump phoned into a meeting arranged by Pennsylvania Republicans in Gettysburg on Wednesday to renew his unsubstantiated claims that the election was stolen from him, telling participants that they needed to “turn the election over.”Trump’… Source: The Hill
White House national security adviser Robert O’Brien dismissed talk that he could potentially run for president in 2024, calling a recent report about his presidential aspirations “speculation.”O’Brien, a staunch ally of President Trump, said a… Source: The Hill
Joe Biden is set to receive his first presidential daily briefing as president-elect Monday, according to his transition team. Biden transition spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters the news during a call Wednesday after a spokesperson for… Source: The Hill
President-elect Joe Biden said Tuesday that transition staffers have been in touch with Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious diseases expert and a member of the White House’s coronavirus task force.Biden told reporters that while he has… Source: The Hill
President-elect Joe Biden’s transition teams have scheduled about 20 meetings with the heads of federal agencies and departments in the day after the General Services Administration (GSA) formally authorized the beginning stages of a government… Source: The Hill