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Mandel Ngan via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In a sweeping change that could American save consumers time and money — the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Tuesday finalized a rule that would ban surprise “junk [Read More…]

Toru Hanai/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — President-elect Donald Trump said Monday that the Biden administration knows more about the drones that have raised alarms over parts of the country than it’s sharing with [Read More…]

Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for Fast Company (WASHINGTON) — David Hogg, gun control activist, March for our Lives co-founder and Parkland school shooting survivor, is running for vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, ABC News [Read More…]

Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. arrives on Capitol Hill on Monday to kickstart several days of private meetings with more than two dozen senators and their staff in a [Read More…]

ABC News Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., said Sunday that he has no concerns about President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard to serve as director of national intelligence. Gabbard, a vocal non-interventionist, has [Read More…]

Gwengoat/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said the federal government is taking action to address the aerial drones that have prompted concern among New Jersey residents. “There’s no question that people [Read More…]

Joe Raedle/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President-elect Donald Trump tapped former California Rep. Devin Nunes as chairman of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board in a series of announcements on Saturday. Nunes has been a staunch Trump [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s personal attorney previously lobbied the Food and Drug Administration to revoke the approval of the polio vaccine, highlighting an influential Kennedy ally who, sources tell ABC [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — No women will lead a House committee for the first time in two decades after House Republicans revealed their list of committee leaders for the 119th Congress on Thursday. [Read More…]

Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The only path forward in Donald Trump’s criminal hush money case in New York is vacating his conviction and dismissing the case prior to Trump taking [Read More…]

Jim Vondruska/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President-elect Donald Trump campaigned relentlessly on grocery prices in the 2024 race, vowing to bring down costs quickly for American families if given four more years in the [Read More…]

Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi, 84, was hospitalized while abroad on a congressional delegation, her office said on Friday. “While traveling with a bipartisan Congressional delegation in Luxembourg to [Read More…]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., said Thursday he believes anti-obesity drugs “have a place.” The comment, given in a brief interview to CNBC [Read More…]

Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President-elect Donald Trump’s picks for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, and director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, are continuing to try to shore up support with senators [Read More…]

Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President-elect Donald Trump has invited China‘s President Xi Jinping to his inauguration in January, his spokesperson said Thursday. Incoming White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed reports about the invitation on [Read More…]

Nathan Laine/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President-elect Donald Trump has been named Time magazine’s “2024 Person of the Year,” it was announced on Thursday. The feature story includes an interview with Trump, in which he discusses immigration, abortion, [Read More…]

Catherine McQueen/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) —Banking customers could save up to $5 billion per year on overdraft fees under a new rule finalized Thursday by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Rohit Chopra, the director of the [Read More…]

(Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz) (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden said Thursday that he was pardoning 39 people who were convicted of non-violent crimes and was commuting the sentences of 1,500 people on [Read More…]

Andrew Harnik/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — FBI Director Christopher Wray told employees at an internal town hall on Wednesday that he is resigning, according to sources familiar with the meeting. He said he is stepping [Read More…]

ABC (NEW YORK) — Former President Bill Clinton, during an appearance on ABC’s The View on Wednesday, indicated he hopes President Joe Biden will not preemptively pardon people who could be targeted by the incoming [Read More…]