news2shortsDuring his confirmation hearing, Kash Patel appeared to break from President Trump when he told senators he disagreed with the pardons for January 6 defendants convicted of violent crimes. NBC News’ Ken Dilanian reports on the questions Patel faced as he looks to serve as the next FBI director.
Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., grilled Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the FBI, over Patel’s pro-gun stances. Asked by Padilla if Patel believes background checks on firearm purchases are constitutional during the nominee’s confirmation hearing Thursday, Patel responded that he didn’t know “the in-depths of it,” but believed “that’s what the Supreme Court … Read more
Trump’s health secretary pick transferred ownership of Maha slogan application to anti-vaccine ally Del Bigtree Robert F Kennedy Jr, the anti-vaccine activist and conspiracy theorist nominated for US health secretary by Donald Trump, recently applied to trademark his own “Make America Healthy Again” slogan for use in marketing potential products including food supplements, vitamins, essential … Read more
Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., and Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., both pressed Tulsi Gabbard about if she viewed Edward Snowden as a traitor or not during her confirmation hearing to serve as the director of national intelligence.
President Donald Trump set his sights on DEI standards at the Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday after a deadly in-air collision at the nation’s capital. Trump, speaking to reporters in the White House briefing room, highlighted efforts by the Biden administration to lower aviation standards, though he acknowledged that the cause of Wednesday night’s crash … Read more
Director of national intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard shed further light on her 2017 meeting with then-Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, a trip that has come under the microscope since President Donald Trump nominated the former congresswoman. “There is not a great deal in the public record about what you and Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad discussed … Read more
Tulsi Gabbard, President Trump’s pick to be DNI, was questioned about her praise for Edward Snowden and her stance on a surveillance program.
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 former public defender and DOJ official, was grilled by Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., who accused Patel of having called for FBI headquarters to be shut … Read more
Three-week-old program to curb vehicle emissions received approval from Biden administration, which Trump may pull Donald Trump’s administration is reportedly considering putting a stop to New York City’s three-week-old congestion pricing program, which aims to curb emissions from auto vehicles. The program received crucial federal approval from the Biden administration last year. Trump’s transportation department … Read more
Advocates report harassment and loss of gender-affirming care as trans women face transfers to men’s prisons Transgender women incarcerated in federal prisons have been placed in isolation, told they will be transferred to men’s prisons and advised they will lose access to gender-affirming medical treatments in response to Donald Trump’s executive order “defending women from … Read more
