U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel have sued the Biden administration for blocking a deal that would have resulted in the Japanese company acquiring the U.S. steelmaker.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) has reportedly told President-elect Donald Trump that Pete Hegseth will have enough votes to be confirmed as Secretary of Defense, according to a report from CBS News.
Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) said Sunday there is no need to rush the confirmation of President-elect Donald Trump’s FBI director nominee, Kash Patel, despite recent terrorist attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas. Speaking on CNN’s State of the Union, Klobuchar defended the current functionality of the FBI and stressed the Senate’s constitutional responsibility to thoroughly vet nominees.
Two months after the 2024 election, the race for a North Carolina Supreme Court seat remains unresolved as legal challenges delay the final outcome. Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin, who trails Democratic Justice Allison Riggs by 734 votes, has filed numerous legal objections, seeking to invalidate approximately 60,000 ballots.
President-elect Donald Trump has pledged his administration’s full support to the city of New Orleans following a devastating attack in which a driver deliberately plowed into a crowd of New Year’s revelers, killing at least 10 and injuring dozens more. The attack, which also involved gunfire, took place in the early hours of New Year’s Day.
Researchers at Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands, with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, have developed a controversial method to deliver malaria vaccines using genetically modified mosquitoes. Dubbed “flying vaccinators,” these insects are engineered to deliver vaccine components via their bites.
