Author: Jenny Goldsberry

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) filed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in favor of Congress’s ban on TikTok. The Senate Majority leader voted to ban TikTok from U.S. app stores beginning Jan. 19, 2025. This pending ban attempts to pressure Chinese-owned ByteDance to sell the social media platform. The ban was signed into law by…

President-elect Donald Trump appeared before supporters with his hair styled a new way, prompting online commentary on the look. Trump was seemingly fresh off the golf course as he approached a crowd while wearing a Trump-Vance polo shirt and had his hair slicked back. He was at his International Golf Club in Palm Beach, Florida…

Reality show star and socialite Paris Hilton has been spending the week in Washington, D.C., to rally support for her legislation, the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act. Hilton’s effort to mandate more transparency in teenage crisis centers received unanimous support in the Senate. She appeared on Fox News’s Fox & Friends to reveal that it…

President-elect Donald Trump‘s inaugural fund received $2 million from Uber Technologies and its CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. Khosrowshahi’s contribution represents his largest political donation ever and a promise to cooperate with the administration. Uber is following in the footsteps of a handful of tech companies flocking to Trump and mending previously strained relationships. OpenAI CEO Sam…

Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) responded to concerns about his capacity for diplomacy as the soon-to-be chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Mast appeared on Fox News’s America’s Newsroom on Tuesday to respond to reports that he is not prone to bipartisanship. The Florida congressman said his commitment to cut unnecessary foreign aid could become…

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said the drone sightings in U.S. airspace have left him worried about “an attack on the homeland.” For weeks, people have reported sightings of car-sized drones all over New Jersey, notably in Bedminster, where Gov. Phil Murphy (D-NJ) lives and President-elect Donald Trump’s golf course is located. Since then, drones have…

First lady Jill Biden taught her last English class at Northern Virginia Community College last week. Biden, 73, is the first woman to continue working outside the White House while serving as first lady. She began teaching in northern Virginia in 2009 when her husband Joe Biden was elected vice president. Even after his term…

MSNBC host Symone Sanders-Townsend took to George Stephanopoulos’s defense Sunday, agreeing with his characterization of President-elect Donald Trump’s conviction. Stephanopoulos is fresh from settling with Trump in a lawsuit over his comment that Trump was “liable for rape,” for which his network will pay $15 million. Trump will take the settlement toward establishing a “Presidential…

Anchor Chris Cuomo agreed to a new multiyear contract with NewsNation on Monday. Cuomo will continue to host his weeknight show, CUOMO, at 8 p.m. Eastern. The network reported the program increased total viewership by 54% and increased by 28% among adults 25-54. “Of course I am staying,” Cuomo said in a statement. “Where else but…

Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong clarified that his proposed bias meter will only apply to editorials and opinion pieces. Soon-Shiong revealed more about the artificial intelligence-powered tool he plans to have displayed at the top of some articles in an interview with his outlet published Sunday. The meter he hinted was coming next year will…