Author: Jenny Goldsberry

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin rebutted comments made by President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for the new secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, that women should not serve combat roles in the military. Austin gave what is expected to be his final television interview as secretary to NBC News, which will air Wednesday. Hegseth, who recently left his…

Californians rejected a measure that would have raised the state’s minimum wage to $18 an hour. Over two weeks after Election Day, California has counted over 99% of the votes and revealed that a slim majority of 50.8% as of Wednesday voted against Proposition 32. This is the first time voters have rejected a wage…

Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) called out federal programs for their biases against Republican voters when it comes to rendering services to them. Cammack condemned the Federal Emergency Management Agency for “saying the quiet part out loud” regarding its bias against Trump supporters but lamented that it is not the only agency guilty of doing so.…

Newport Beach Mayor Will O’Neill blamed Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) for the most recent group of immigrants to enter his city via the Pacific Ocean. After the U.S. Coast Guard intercepted a boat with 21 immigrants headed for California, O’Neill took to Fox News’s The Faulkner Focus on Tuesday to rail against the state’s sanctuary…

Monsignor Jamie Gigantiello had his pastoral duties reduced nearly to none Monday when the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn discovered money transfers to New York City Mayor‘s office. As Mayor Eric Adams is facing his own barrage of corruption and bribery charges from a federal court, Bishop Robert Brennan issued a statement to announce that…

Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough continued to defend himself Tuesday for interviewing President-elect Donald Trump. Scarborough and his cohost and wife, Mika Brzezinski, admitted Monday that they had met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago following his victory in the Nov. 5 election. The occasion marked the first time in seven years that the three had spent…

Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre said players performing President-elect Donald Trump’s dance should not worry about the league asking them to stop. Las Vegas Raider tight end Brock Bowers performed the dance on the field after several other players did the same, including the Tennessee Titans’ Nick Westbrook-Ikhine and Calvin Ridley, the San Francisco 49ers’ Leonard…

Independent Senate candidate Dan Osborn announced a new hybrid political action committee for working-class candidates Monday following his narrow loss to Sen. Deb Fischer (R-NE). Osborn, a steamfitter by trade, is fresh from his senate campaign as an independent candidate. Now, with his experience as a former union president and Navy veteran, he’s created a…

San Francisco Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie named OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to his transition team on Monday. Lurie beat incumbent Mayor London Breed this past election with the help of donations from other tech leaders in artificial intelligence. While his transition team was largely made up of political figures, as a political novice, he included two…

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) thinks it is “horrifying” that the Education Department could be in Vivek Ramaswamy‘s crosshairs. Over the weekend, Ramaswamy said he expected “certain agencies to be deleted outright” under President-elect Donald Trump’s administration, which led many to speculate he was referring to the Department of Education. While on CNN News Central on…