Politics

Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the 47th president of the United States on Monday. The event has become an easy way for the rich and powerful to curry favor with the incoming administration. Trump’s inaugural committee has raised around $200 million since he won the election, according to The …

WASHINGTON — Everybody in a position of power failed to protect you from this. Many of those same people and leaders are now cashing in, paying millions in protection money, or laughing about what has happened. Others are pretending there was nothing they could do to stop it — and …

Outgoing President Joe Biden greeted incoming President Donald Trump at the north portico of the White House on Monday with an enthusiastic “Welcome home!” The first families enjoyed tea together, and a few hours later Trump, a convicted felon who attempted to overturn the results of a free and fair …

Cecile Richards, the organizer and activist who transformed Planned Parenthood into a political powerhouse, died on Monday at age 67. A year ago, Richards announced that she had been diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive and incurable form of brain cancer. Richards “passed away at home, surrounded by her family and …

After nearly 50 years in federal prison, Native American rights activist Leonard Peltier has been released. President Joe Biden, in the final minutes of his presidency, commuted the sentence of Peltier, who was convicted in the killing of two FBI agents in 1975 on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in …

Michelle Obama is celebrating the work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Moments before Donald Trump took the oath of office Monday, the former First Lady shared a tribute to the civil rights activist on his national holiday. “Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy of service always inspires me,” …

Right-wing extremists, white nationalists, and neo-Nazis are celebrating an alarming gesture made by the world’s richest man. At a post-inauguration rally Monday, Elon Musk thanked Donald Trump’s supporters with a gesture that resembled a Roman salute, first putting his palm to his chest and then extending a stiff right arm …

After a black-out that lasted for about 14 hours, TikTok has been restored in the U.S. The app returned after President-elect Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Sunday morning, writing, “I will issue an executive order on Monday to extend the period of time before the law’sprohibitionstake effect, so …

What’s good for the goose is good for the gander, as the saying goes. And apparently in the case of the Trumps, they’re laying seeming golden eggs in the form of crypto meme coins before the couple officially return to the White House on Monday. On Sunday, Melania Trump announced …

Some Democrats were questioning President Joe Biden’s fitness to run for a second term privately as early as January 2024, believing that his age and performance were going to be detrimental, paving the way for Donald Trump’s return to office, as The Guardian reports. While the report details the legacy …