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California voters narrowly reject $18 minimum wage; first such no-vote nationwide since 1996

California voters narrowly reject $18 minimum wage; first such no-vote nationwide since 1996

California voters narrowly rejected a minimum wage hike to $18, by a reported margin of 51-49, marking the first such failure of t...

The Democratic leaders stepping up as Trump’s biggest foes

The Democratic leaders stepping up as Trump’s biggest foes

These are the governors, attorneys general and advocacy groups preparing to battle the incoming administration's policy plans.

Fetterman would be willing to confirm Dr. Oz — on one condition

Fetterman would be willing to confirm Dr. Oz — on one condition

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., said he will vote to confirm Dr. Mehmet Oz to serve as Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services admi...

Hezbollah’s Rockets Remain a Threat Despite Israel’s Crushing Offensive

Hezbollah’s Rockets Remain a Threat Despite Israel’s Crushing Offensive

Israel’s failure to tamp down the short-range rocket threat has put pressure on its government to embrace a cease-fire.

Biden skips taking questions at G-20 in Brazil, despite reporter pleading with him

Biden skips taking questions at G-20 in Brazil, despite reporter pleading with him

President Biden did not answer questions as he departed from Brazil, even though an unidentified reporter screamed at him in vain ...

Speaker Johnson makes clarification after statement regarding transgender House member

Speaker Johnson makes clarification after statement regarding transgender House member

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., clarifies that "a man cannot become a woman" after a question about transgender Rep.-elect Sara...

Congressional election observers deploy to Iowa for recount in uncalled House race

Congressional election observers deploy to Iowa for recount in uncalled House race

Congressional election observers deployed to Iowa after Democrat Bohannan called a recount in the House race against GOP incumbent...

South Africa’s Energy Plan to Be Submitted to Lawmakers by March

South Africa’s Energy Plan to Be Submitted to Lawmakers by March

South Africa’s government expects to complete a revision of its national energy blueprint this month and submit the proposed chang...

After declining to state whether trans Rep-elect is a man or woman, Johnson says 'A man cannot become a woman'

After declining to state whether trans Rep-elect is a man or woman, Johnson says 'A man cannot become a woman'

After declining to answer a question about whether Rep.-elect Sarah McBride is a man or a woman, House Speaker Mike Johnson made a...

Erdogan Pledges Minimum Wage Hike Will Outpace Inflation in 2025

Erdogan Pledges Minimum Wage Hike Will Outpace Inflation in 2025

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pledged that minimum wage increases will continue to outpace inflation next year and that w...

Biden makes another Ukraine policy shift with approval of sending anti-personnel mines

Biden makes another Ukraine policy shift with approval of sending anti-personnel mines

Ukrainian forces are now being supplied with American anti-personnel mines, a second escalation by President Biden before leaving ...

Trump and the Triumph of America’s New Elite

Trump and the Triumph of America’s New Elite

The US is in the midst of a “revolutionary situation,” says the author of End Times.

Militants Violating Congo Cease-Fire Deal, Regional Bloc Says

Militants Violating Congo Cease-Fire Deal, Regional Bloc Says

Militants operating in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are violating the terms of a peace accord that was signed in late ...

UK Lawmakers Plan to Ask Musk to Give Evidence on Summer Riots

UK Lawmakers Plan to Ask Musk to Give Evidence on Summer Riots

A panel of British lawmakers plans to invite Elon Musk to testify in Parliament about X’s role in spreading disinformation during ...

Pakistan Court Accepts Ex-PM Imran Khan’s Bail in Gift Case

Pakistan Court Accepts Ex-PM Imran Khan’s Bail in Gift Case

A Pakistani court granted bail to former Prime Minister Imran Khan in a case where he is accused of hiding his income he made by s...

Biden’s Move on Venezuela Leaves Trump Little Room to Cut a Deal

Biden’s Move on Venezuela Leaves Trump Little Room to Cut a Deal

Nicolás Maduro was hoping for a “fresh start” with the US under Donald Trump. Instead, he’s getting déjà vu.

President Xi Navigates China Through a Chaotic World

President Xi Navigates China Through a Chaotic World

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Louisiana lawmakers weighing constitutional amendment that would send more juvenile offenders to adult jails

Louisiana lawmakers weighing constitutional amendment that would send more juvenile offenders to adult jails

Louisiana lawmakers are considering an amendment to the state constitution that would remove restrictions on sentencing juvenile o...

Tunisia Opposition Leader Hospitalized After Acid Attack at Home

Tunisia Opposition Leader Hospitalized After Acid Attack at Home

A prominent Tunisian politician who tried unsuccessfully to stand against President Kais Saied in last month’s elections is underg...

Trump Promises Clean Water. Will He Clean Up PFAS?

Trump Promises Clean Water. Will He Clean Up PFAS?

Public health advocates worry that Donald Trump could unravel federal clean water efforts, including restrictions on lead pipes an...

Harris Loss Has Democrats Fighting Over How to Talk About Transgender Rights

Harris Loss Has Democrats Fighting Over How to Talk About Transgender Rights

Kamala Harris left Donald J. Trump’s anti-transgender attack ads largely unanswered. Some Democrats call it political malpractice....

As Democrats Question How to Win Back Latinos, Ruben Gallego Offers Answers

As Democrats Question How to Win Back Latinos, Ruben Gallego Offers Answers

After a victorious Senate campaign, the Arizona lawmaker thinks others can follow his lead by signaling that they hear Latino vote...

Top 10 states where Trump outperformed in 2024

Top 10 states where Trump outperformed in 2024

President-elect Trump flipped six key swing states in his historic win this month, but his gains were nationwide, and some of his ...

Danish PM ‘Not Surprised’ If Sabotage Caused Subsea Cable Damage

Danish PM ‘Not Surprised’ If Sabotage Caused Subsea Cable Damage

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said she would not be taken aback if the severing of two data cables in the Baltic Sea a f...

Ghana to Rule on LGBTQ Bill Legality After Vote, Citi FM Reports

Ghana to Rule on LGBTQ Bill Legality After Vote, Citi FM Reports

Ghana’s Supreme Court will decide on the constitutionality of a controversial anti-LGBTQ bill after next month’s presidential elec...

Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin of Virginia says with Trump’s election, ‘we’ve got a friend in the White House’

Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin of Virginia says with Trump’s election, ‘we’ve got a friend in the White House’

What's next for Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin of Virginia, who says that former President Trump's decisive election victory earli...

House Ethics Committee plans to discuss probe into Gaetz after resignation from Congress

House Ethics Committee plans to discuss probe into Gaetz after resignation from Congress

The House Ethics Committee is expected to meet on Wednesday after previously postponing a planned meeting on its investigation int...

Vietnam Ex-Deputy Minister Among 15 in Oil Firm Bribery Trial

Vietnam Ex-Deputy Minister Among 15 in Oil Firm Bribery Trial

A former Vietnam deputy trade minister and an ex-provincial party chief are facing bribery charges tied to an oil company in a Ho ...

Uganda Opposition Leader Besigye ‘Kidnapped’ in Kenya, Wife Says

Uganda Opposition Leader Besigye ‘Kidnapped’ in Kenya, Wife Says

Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye is being held in a military jail after being detained in neighboring Kenya’s capital over ...

Hacker obtains House ethics testimony on Matt Gaetz as Trump makes calls for AG nominee

Hacker obtains House ethics testimony on Matt Gaetz as Trump makes calls for AG nominee

An unidentified hacker has reportedly obtained a file that contains confidential testimony involving allegations of sexual miscond...

Japan’s Stimulus Package Gets DPP Nod With Tax Talk Inclusion

Japan’s Stimulus Package Gets DPP Nod With Tax Talk Inclusion

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba struck a deal with a key opposition party over his economic stimulus package, by promising ...

What to know about Transgender Day of Remembrance and violence against trans people

What to know about Transgender Day of Remembrance and violence against trans people

Vigils and other events are being held to draw attention to transgender people who have lost their lives due to violence in the pa...

Trump has called for dismantling the Education Department. Here's what that would mean

Trump has called for dismantling the Education Department. Here's what that would mean

Throughout his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump heaped scorn on the federal Department of Education, describing it as being ...

Trump's casting call as he builds out his administration: TV experience preferred

Trump's casting call as he builds out his administration: TV experience preferred

President-elect Donald Trump is clearly prizing experience on television as he chooses people to serve in his new administration

Saudi Wealth Fund a Tool to Silence Critics, Human Rights Watch Says

Saudi Wealth Fund a Tool to Silence Critics, Human Rights Watch Says

Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund — chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman — has become a key vehicle for the kingdom to s...

As Ukraine Struggles With Manpower, One Brigade Is Recruiting

As Ukraine Struggles With Manpower, One Brigade Is Recruiting

The focus this week has been on US missiles. But one of the biggest challenges remains getting enough soldiers to the front line.

History’s Sobering Warning About America’s Future

History’s Sobering Warning About America’s Future

On this week’s Voternomics, author Peter Turchin explains why Donald Trump’s return isn’t a surprise, and what it represents.

As Trump Returns to Power, World Leaders Seek Stability With China

As Trump Returns to Power, World Leaders Seek Stability With China

The return to power of President-elect Donald J. Trump, who has vowed to confront China on tariffs, has created deep uncertainty a...

Taiwan Minister Kicks Off Europe Trip With Stop in Brussels

Taiwan Minister Kicks Off Europe Trip With Stop in Brussels

Taiwanese Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung started his weeklong trip to Europe with a stop in Brussels that’s likely to trigger Beij...

Key to Trump’s Win: Heavy Losses for Harris Across the Map

Key to Trump’s Win: Heavy Losses for Harris Across the Map

Trump found new voters across counties and demographics to win the election. But Harris’s failure to match Biden’s 2020 performanc...

North Korea Hasn’t Perfected ICBM Warheads, US Admiral Says

North Korea Hasn’t Perfected ICBM Warheads, US Admiral Says

Years of high-profile intercontinental ballistic missile tests by North Korea have fallen short of demonstrating that Pyongyang ca...

President-elect Trump has considered buying Greenland: Here's every proposal in American history

President-elect Trump has considered buying Greenland: Here's every proposal in American history

President-elect Trump has floated the idea the United States may purchase Greenland in his previous term, but he is far from the f...

What to know about Linda McMahon, Trump’s pick for Education secretary

What to know about Linda McMahon, Trump’s pick for Education secretary

Linda McMahon is Donald Trump's choice for Education secretary

Trump says he will nominate wrestling billionaire Linda McMahon to be education secretary

Trump says he will nominate wrestling billionaire Linda McMahon to be education secretary

Trump says he will nominate wrestling billionaire Linda McMahon to be education secretary

Trump Chooses Longtime Ally Linda McMahon to Run Education Dept.

Trump Chooses Longtime Ally Linda McMahon to Run Education Dept.

A friend and financial backer of Donald J. Trump’s, Ms. McMahon, who led the Small Business Administration during his first term, ...

Trump’s Treasury Search Gains Steam With Fresh Round of Meetings

Trump’s Treasury Search Gains Steam With Fresh Round of Meetings

President-elect Donald Trump’s dramatic search for a Treasury secretary continues as he’s scheduled to hold interviews Wednesday w...

Syrian national accused of funneling over $9 million in US-funded humanitarian aid to terrorist organization

Syrian national accused of funneling over $9 million in US-funded humanitarian aid to terrorist organization

The U.S. attorney's office said that a Syrian national was charged after allegedly funneling more than $9 million in U.S.-funded h...

VP-elect JD Vance to hold meetings between Gaetz, Hegseth and 'key' GOP senators

VP-elect JD Vance to hold meetings between Gaetz, Hegseth and 'key' GOP senators

A source told Fox News Digital VP-elect JD Vance will schedule meetings with key GOP senators and Trump Cabinet nominees Matt Gaet...

Louisiana governor's tax overhaul faces opposition as lawmakers and lobbyists horse-trade

Louisiana governor's tax overhaul faces opposition as lawmakers and lobbyists horse-trade

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry's complex tax reform package, intended to deliver large income and corporate tax cuts, has faced pushba...

California voters reject measure that would have raised minimum wage to nation-high $18 per hour

California voters reject measure that would have raised minimum wage to nation-high $18 per hour

California voters have rejected a measure on the November ballot that would have raised the minimum wage for most workers to $18 a...

Pentagon sending a ‘few thousand’ personnel to Middle East d...

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Pentagon sending a ‘few thousand’ personnel to Middle East day after Biden said he wouldn’t add combat troops

Jimmy Carter becomes first president to turn 100

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Jimmy Carter becomes first president to turn 100

Georgia doctors speak out to challenge misinformation on sta...

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Georgia doctors speak out to challenge misinformation on state's abortion law, death of Amber Thurman

After Shaq, Jay-Z, Beyonce And Others, Tesla Cybertruck Join...

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After Shaq, Jay-Z, Beyonce And Others, Tesla Cybertruck Joins Joins Irvine Police Department's Fleet, Will Be Used For Community Outreach Efforts

Scandals, failed assassinations and political rhetoric: Both...

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Scandals, failed assassinations and political rhetoric: Both sides go high and low

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