Day: January 30, 2025

Where Trump’s Cabinet nominees stand in Senate confirmation process

11:41 pm January 30, 2025

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel testified before Senate committees on Capitol Hill Thursday as urgency builds to confirm President Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominations.  Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s nominee for secretary of the Health and Human Services (HHS), faced his second day of questioning on the Hill before the Senate […]

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Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding calls loss in airline collision ‘absolutely devastating’

11:36 pm January 30, 2025

Two-time U.S. Olympian Tonya Harding joined many others in the figure skating community to speak out after it was revealed that several members of U.S. Figure Skating were among the victims feared dead following an American Airlines collision with an Army helicopter late Wednesday night.  Harding, who had joined X just a day earlier, posted a […]

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Gabbard says 9/11 likely could have been prevented if not for intelligence ‘stovepiping’

11:33 pm January 30, 2025

Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump‘s director of national intelligence (DNI) pick, said the attack on Sept. 11 likely could have been prevented if not for government “stovepiping,” where government officials deliver intelligence directly to high-ranking officials without broadening communications.  “There’s a general consensus that there was a massive intelligence failure,” Republican Sen. Roger Wicker said […]

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DC plane crash likely ‘combination’ of factors, ‘lucky’ there haven’t been more air accidents: attorney

11:31 pm January 30, 2025

The fatal collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and a U.S. Army helicopter at Reagan International Airport on Wednesday night was likely a culmination of factors, according to aviation attorney Jim Brauchle, who says “we’ve been lucky” there haven’t been more air accidents. Brauchle is a former U.S. Air Force navigator who now represents […]

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Bob Menendez betrayed his country and legacy in stunning fall from grace, NJ colleagues say

11:30 pm January 30, 2025

Former colleagues of disgraced ex-Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., spoke about how the former senator betrayed his country and his own legacy, published in a report by The New York Times on Wednesday. A judge sentenced Menendez to 11 years in prison on Wednesday, concluding his trial for a “long-running bribery and foreign influence scheme of […]

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