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Bitcoin Hits a Big Milestone as Post-Election Rally Continues
Bitcoin Hits a Big Milestone
Dec 5, 2024 1:30 AM CST

Bitcoin Hits a Big Milestone

Cryptocurrency tops $100K for first time

(Newser) - Bitcoin has topped the $100,000 mark for the first time as a massive rally in the world's most popular cryptocurrency sparked by the election of Donald Trump rolls on, the AP reports. The milestone comes just hours after the president-elect signaled a lighter regulatory approach to the crypto...

Trump Lawyers Seek Dismissal of Georgia Case

Election makes prosecution unconstitutional, filing argues

(Newser) - Now that Donald Trump has won the election, his lawyers have asked an appeals court to dismiss the Georgia criminal case against him because a "sitting president is completely immune from indictment or any criminal process, state or federal." Prosecuting the 2020 election interference case would be unconstitutional,...

Trump: DEA Pick Didn't Pull Out, I Pulled Him Out

Trump said he didn't like what Sheriff Chad Chronister 'said to my pastors'

(Newser) - In a post on X Tuesday, President-elect Trump's pick to lead the Drug Enforcement Administration said he had concluded that he "must respectfully withdraw from consideration." Trump, however, slammed the Wall Street Journal Wednesday for reporting that Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister had pulled out. "He...

Trump Announces Trade, SEC, Army Picks

Peter Navarro is returning to the White House

(Newser) - President-elect Trump is bringing Peter Navarro, a former adviser who served prison time related to the Capitol attack, back to the White House for his second administration. Navarro will serve as a senior counselor for trade and manufacturing, Trump announced in a Truth Social post . Trump wrote that the position...

Trump Might Have a Job for DeSantis
Trump Might Have
a Job for DeSantis
Dec 4, 2024 10:30 AM CST

Trump Might Have a Job for DeSantis

Florida governor is among possible replacements for Pete Hegseth as defense secretary: reports

(Newser) - If Pete Hegseth's background check proves troublesome, President-elect Trump won't be ill-prepared. Trump is eyeing replacements for his pick as defense secretary as Hegseth finds himself deeper and deeper in muck, media outlets are reporting, noting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is among those who could nab the job....

Report: Hegseth's Fox Colleagues Worried About His Drinking

Co-workers anonymously describe behavior they found concerning

(Newser) - Pete Hegseth was hit with another controversial report Tuesday. Ten current and former Fox News employees tell NBC News that during Hegseth's tenure as a co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend—which started in 2017 and ended after President-elect Trump announced Hegseth as his choice to lead the Defense...

In NY Case, Trump Lawyers Cite Hunter Biden Pardon

They accuse DA of engaging in 'the type of political theater' that president condemned

(Newser) - President-elect Trump's lawyers cited President Biden's pardoning of his son in their latest bid to have Trump's hush-money conviction tossed. In the filing made public Tuesday, Trump attorneys Todd Blance and Emil Bove said that "in issuing a 10-year-pardon to Hunter Biden that covers any and...

Eye on His Inauguration, Trump Issues Gaza Ultimatum

President-elect: If Israeli hostages aren't released by Jan. 20, 'there will be ALL HELL TO PAY'

(Newser) - As news broke Monday that 21-year-old American Omer Neutra had been killed in the Oct. 7 attack in Israel, renewed attention was directed to the plight of the hostages still believed to be held by Hamas in Gaza. President-elect Trump was one of those weighing in, and he made clear...

Billionaire GOP Donor Gets Nod for Prestigious Ambassadorship

Trump picks Warren Stephens as ambassador to UK

(Newser) - President-elect Trump has named billionaire investment banker Warren Stephens as his envoy to Britain, a prestigious posting for the Republican donor whose contributions this year included $2 million to a Trump-backing super PAC, the AP reports. Trump, in a post on his Truth Social site Monday evening, announced he was...

Senators Back Hegseth as Another Controversy Is Revealed

Member of Trump's inner circle was apparently no fan of Hegseth's years back

(Newser) - The controversy around Pete Hegseth is growing. Sources tell CBS News that back in 2016, allegations of financial mismanagement, sexual misconduct, a toxic workplace environment, and alcohol problems including public intoxication led to a group of Republicans pushing to remove Hegseth as head of a charity for veterans. Hegseth started...

Opinion: Trump's FBI Move Is a 'Constitutional Crisis'

David Frum writes that the president-elect wants the powerful agency to do his bidding

(Newser) - President-elect Trump's choice of Kash Patel to lead the FBI is drawing plenty of criticism on the left and plenty of praise from the MAGA wing. But in the Atlantic , David Frum argues that the real controversy isn't the decision to pick Patel but to fire current FBI...

What to Know About Trump&#39;s Pick to Lead the FBI
FBI Nominee
Has Vowed
to Gut
the Agency
the rundown
Dec 2, 2024 7:39 AM CST

FBI Nominee Has Vowed to Gut the Agency

Kash Patel is a polarizing figure

(Newser) - Kash Patel is President-elect Trump's pick to lead the FBI come January, and he may now be the most controversial of the nominees standing. As a New York Times profile notes, few nominated for any federal post "have come with quite so much bravado, bombast or baggage."...

After Biden Pardon, Trump Wonders About 'J-6' Cases

Former president criticizes current president's move as a 'miscarriage of Justice'

(Newser) - President Biden's decision to pardon son Hunter Sunday night might have raised the hopes of those currently imprisoned over the Capitol riot. In reacting to the Biden move, President-elect Trump provided what some are interpreting as a hint to his thinking in regard to potential pardons for them, reports...

Objections Greet Trump&#39;s FBI Pick
Objections
Greet
Trump's
FBI Pick
Dec 1, 2024 5:00 PM CST

Objections Greet Trump's FBI Pick

Both parties point out the agency already has a director

(Newser) - Bipartisan opposition emerged Sunday to President-elect Trump's selection of Kash Patel , a fierce and persistent critic of the FBI who has promised to go after political opponents, to be its director. Democrats and Republicans also expressed concern about removing Christopher Wray from his position to make room for Patel,...

Trump Offers Job to a Second In-Law

Massad Boulos courted Arab American voters in Michigan during campaign

(Newser) - For the second time this weekend, President-elect Trump has announced he's putting his daughter's father-in-law in a significant position in his administration. Massad Boulos will become a senior adviser for Arab and Middle Eastern affairs, Trump said in a Truth Social post Sunday. "Massad is an accomplished...

Trump Expands Tariff Threat to a 9-Nation Bloc

The BRIC alliance includes Brazil, Russia, India, and China

(Newser) - President-elect Trump continues to wield his tariff weapon : On Saturday, he threatened 100% tariffs against a bloc of nine nations if they act to undermine the US dollar. His threat was directed at countries in the so-called BRIC alliance, which consists of Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia,...

Trump Names Loyalist to Run FBI Once He's Ousted Wray

Kash Patel produced a 'blueprint to remove these Gangsters from all of Government,' president-elect wrote

(Newser) - President-elect Trump has picked Kash Patel to serve as FBI director, signaling his intention to oust Christopher Wray and install a fierce loyalist to upend the nation's premier law enforcement agency. Trump has been bitterly critical of the agency, which he has claimed has "lost the confidence of...

Trump Wants Pardoned Charles Kushner as Ambassador

Jared Kushner's father was sentenced to prison on for federal crimes

(Newser) - President-elect Trump announced Saturday that he has chosen Charles Kushner, the father of his son-in-law and a real estate mogul who was convicted of federal charges before being pardoned during Trump's first term, to be ambassador to France. "He is a tremendous business leader, philanthropist, & dealmaker, who...

Trudeau Shows Up on Trump's Home Turf Over Tariffs

Canadian PM makes unannounced stop at Mar-a-Lago for meeting with incoming president

(Newser) - No one's completely sure if Donald Trump's tariffs proposal is a real, fleshed-out plan or merely a "negotiating ploy" with China, Mexico, and Canada to win some trade concessions. Whatever it turns out to be, Canadian Prime Minister seems to be taking the threat seriously, paying...

Trump Win Is Working Out Well for the Village People

'YMCA' tops charts for first time since 1978 release

(Newser) - President-elect Trump's election victory was also a win for the makers of his favorite campaign song. The Village People's "YMCA," which Trump has been playing and dancing to at rallies since 2020, rose steadily in the charts in the final weeks of the campaign and hit...

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