President-elect Donald Trump announced that Alina Habba, Michael Needham, and Michael Anton will join the White House team. Trump also nominated Christopher Landau for Deputy Secretary of State.
The Biden administration has announced yet another significant aid package for Ukraine, totaling $988 million, as part of its ongoing support against Russian aggression.
Clementine Breen, a 20-year-old woman, has filed a lawsuit against Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, alleging medical negligence and coercion that led to irreversible gender transition treatments during her adolescence.
The U.S. Supreme Court appears poised to uphold Tennessee's child-protection law restricting transgender treatments for minors, a development that has alarmed transgender activists and progressives. The law bars the use of hormones, puberty blockers, and surgeries for physically healthy children seeking to transition, arguing that these experimental treatments carry significant long-term risks.
The Trump administration is reportedly exploring options to deport migrants to third-party nations if their home countries refuse to accept them. Sources confirmed to NBC News that discussions are underway with countries like Turks and Caicos, the Bahamas, Panama, and Grenada as possible destinations for deportees.
President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, held high-stakes meetings in November with leaders in Qatar and Israel to advance a potential ceasefire and hostage release agreement in Gaza before Trump’s January 20 inauguration, according to sources briefed on the discussions.
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court began deliberating the legality of Tennessee’s Senate Bill 1, a law prohibiting minors from accessing puberty blockers, hormone treatments, and other gender-transition-related medical interventions.
The Trump-Vance transition team announced Tuesday that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Department of Justice, allowing the FBI to conduct background checks and security clearances for cabinet nominees and incoming White House staff. The agreement follows a period of hesitation by the transition team, citing distrust of the FBI. Traditionally, the FBI is responsible for vetting cabinet nominees and managing security clearances, but the process had been delayed due to the lack of an agreement.
Although President-elect Donald Trump has yet to take office, the promise of stricter border enforcement is already deterring many would-be illegal immigrants from attempting to enter the United States. According to reports, a growing number of migrants stranded in Mexico are seeking to return to their home countries, disillusioned by the risks and dwindling opportunities to cross the border under Trump’s upcoming administration.
