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TikTok CEO to attend Trump inaugural, as embattled Chinese-owned app fights for survival

The CEO of the embattled Chinese-owned TikTok app is expected to attend President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday and sit in a place of honor.

January 16, 2025

FDA bans red dye No. 3 in Biden frenzy for regulations

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday said it's banning red dye No. 3 from food and drugs because it could cause cancer.

January 15, 2025

FDA issues last-minute proposal to cap nicotine level in cigarettes

The Biden administration on Wednesday proposed capping the amount of nicotine in combustible tobacco at a level that is significantly lower than the current level in cigarettes.

January 15, 2025

Coke drinker-in-chief Trump gets inaugural diet soda

The Coca-Cola Co. cozied up to the world's most famous Diet Coke drinker -- President-elect Donald Trump -- late Tuesday by presenting him with an inaugural edition of his favorite beverage.

January 15, 2025

GOP Rep. Buddy Carter files bill to expand use of ‘short-term’ insurance plans

A Georgia Republican is introducing legislation that allows consumers to use "short-term" insurance plans for up to three years, reinstating a first-term Trump policy as Republicans return to power in Washington.

January 14, 2025

Sen. Markwayne Mullin accuses senators of hypocrisy during Hegseth hearing

Sen. Markwayne Mullin electrified a Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday by accusing fellow senators of carousing and voting while drunk even as they accused defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth of unseemly behavior.

January 14, 2025

Trump plans to launch External Revenue Service to process tariff payments

President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday said he will create an External Revenue Service on the first day of his presidency to keep track of tariff payments and revenue flowing into the U.S. from foreign sources.

January 14, 2025

Pete Hegseth ducks question about invading Greenland if Trump orders it

Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth dodged a question Tuesday about President-elect Donald Trump's eagerness to absorb Greenland into the U.S., telling a Senate committee he would never get ahead of the commander in chief in public.

January 14, 2025

Sen. Richard Blumenthal questions Pete Hegseth’s money management, cites massive DoD budget

Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut cast doubt Tuesday on nominee Pete Hegseth's ability to run the Department of Defense, pointing to claims of financial mismanagement when President-elect Donald Trump's pick ran a pair of veterans' groups.

January 14, 2025

Protesters interrupt Pete Hegseth’s opening statement at high-stakes confirmation hearing

Protesters interrupted Pete Hegseth's opening testimony Tuesday at his confirmation hearing to be President-elect Donald Trump's defense secretary, drawing repeated rebukes from the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

January 14, 2025

Ex-special counsel Jack Smith issues final report, says Trump was not exonerated

Former special counsel Jack Smith says President-elect Donald Trump engaged in an "unprecedented" effort to overturn the voters' will in 2020 and would have been convicted at trial if he had not won in November.

January 14, 2025

Arizona AG to DOJ: Jack Smith might be done, but I want his file for 2020 election case

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes told the U.S. Justice Department on Monday that she wants special counsel Jack Smith's case file to support her prosecution of President-elect Donald Trump's allies for trying to overturn the 2020 election.

January 13, 2025

Abbott bucks Biden’s Carter tribute, orders Texas flags up for Trump inauguration

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Monday he is ordering flags to be raised to full-staff on Jan. 20, saying it is vital to celebrate President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration despite a 30-day period of national mourning for the late President Jimmy Carter.

January 13, 2025

Incoming first lady Melania Trump says she is better-prepared for second term

Incoming first lady Melania Trump said Monday she is entering the White House more confidently than she did eight years ago and will expand her social media and anti-bullying campaign in her husband's second term.

January 13, 2025

Trump defiant as judge delivers no-jail felony sentence ahead of inauguration

A defiant President-elect Donald Trump received his no-jail sentence Friday in a surreal and historic hearing just days before his return to Washington as the leader of the free world.

January 10, 2025

Trump set to face criminal reckoning, but no jail time, on N.Y. convictions

President-elect Donald Trump will be sentenced Friday by a New York judge for the felony convictions handed down by a Manhattan jury last spring.

January 10, 2025

Supreme Court declines to stop Trump sentencing in N.Y.

The Supreme Court declined Thursday to intervene on behalf of President-elect Donald Trump, who'd asked the justices to halt his scheduled Friday sentencing on felony convictions in New York.

January 9, 2025

Biden hails late President Jimmy Carter as a visionary and man of character

President Biden hailed President Jimmy Carter for his remarkable rise from a modest childhood to a "life of purpose," during a state funeral Thursday attended by all living former presidents, including President-elect Donald Trump.

January 9, 2025

Manhattan DA to Supreme Court: No reasons to delay Trump sentencing any further

President-elect Donald Trump has no grounds to delay his sentencing for yet another time, Manhattan prosecutors told the Supreme Court on Thursday as the justices decide whether to block his sentencing hearing ahead of the inauguration.

January 9, 2025

Mexican president hits back at Trump over Gulf of America idea

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum responded Wednesday to President-elect Donald Trump's plan to rename the Gulf of Mexico by offering a proposal of her own: Call the U.S. "America Mexicana."

January 8, 2025