The new White House press secretary is facing mounting questions about her background and resume as she transitions into her role as the public face of the Trump administration.

The Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the execution would be “public.”

“She’s probably thrilled to be so admired because she clearly didn’t grow up the incredibly beautiful one,” the conservative podcaster said.

Former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is joining Fox News as an on-air contributor starting Nov. 1. The network announced the move on Monday.

The People's House museum exhibit in Washington has updated its replica Oval Office to match Donald Trump’s flashier and more golden design choices from his second term.

The president warned the conservative network that it could be met with the ratings of “FAKE NEWS CNN” and “MSDNC” if it doesn’t change its ways.

First and foremost:  I'm glad the Tennessee Vols won today's game with Auburn.  While they still have a long way to go - especially on offense - they are looking better than many thought they would look this year. But dear God, WHO made the decision to put these God-awful ugly "X" helmets on the team today?  The tacky gray uniforms are bad enough, but putting an orange "X" in stead of the traditional "power T" on the helmets? 

Christa Pike's attorneys say she was placed on a ventilator in hospital and was unconscious hours after her failed execution in Tennessee.

The North Carolina Republican is set to share a rough timeline of his falling-out with Trump in a new book, due out next week.

My co-moderator on the Charlotte Presbytery Ministry Resource Committee and I had lunch with our new General Presbyter yesterday.  We spent some time talking about the MRC, what we've been, where we've come from, what we are currently doing, and what perhaps we might can be in the future.  As Gail and I prepare to end our time as co-moderators and pass the baton off to others, we asked Steven what he perhaps thought we might want to begin thinking about in terms of the future. 

The U.S. military is moving roughly 9,000 troops aboard a group of ships to the Middle East.

Attorneys for Christa Pike say the death row inmate is still alive but in critical condition a day after the state's failed attempt to execute her for the 1995 murder of a woman.

The family alleges wrongful death and deprivation of civil rights.

Christa Pike, 50, was 18 when she murdered a classmate. She would be the first woman the state has executed in more than 200 years.

This just confirms the warning in my new book.

The Defense Department has decided to stop appointing civilians as tenured faculty at U.S. military academies.

OK, here's a dilemma from Linux Mint cinnamon that has me pulling my hair out. I'm using a standard theme - the "Mint-X-Red" theme that SHOULD show all icons as a red folder with a white stripe across the top - like this: For some reason, a glitch just showed up in the past 24 hours or so.  When I actually click on any folder, the "home" folder or "documents", etc.

Supposed vice-presidential contender Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) seems to have mixed up basketball teams in an effort to nail a top Trump enemy.

Former special counsel Jack Smith has forcefully defended his prosecutions of President Donald Trump and his investigative tactics.

The Trump administration is set to roll out lower fuel economy standards, Trump asked China's Xi if he wants to buy US arms, and the administration is airing a 2024 Trump campaign ad.

U.S. President Donald Trump has rejected Iran’s proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Trump spoke to reporters Saturday outside the White House before leaving for a college football game.

President Donald Trump is canceling nearly $1 billion in spending approved by Congress. The White House announced the move on Friday, using a rare and contested power to axe funding for immigrant serv...

Allegations of Israeli genocide in Gaza are not only false but “the biggest lie of the century" — so says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

County election offices throughout Texas are scrambling to process a massive backlog of voter registration applications stemming from an error at the state level.

A new report from The Washington Post sheds light on what the president is willing to do to “leave his imprint on monumental D.C.”

President Donald Trump said U.S. and Iranian officials met on Tuesday, shortly after he threatened in his U.N. address that he may “annihilate” Iran if a deal to end the war isn’t reached soon.

President Donald Trump returns to UNGA, Trump and Xi see tensions flare over AI, trade and Iran but still seek stability, and Trump meets with NYC Mayor Mamdani.

Voters across the nation say skyrocketing gas prices are causing financial hardships for their families.

UK, France and Canada sanction Israeli settlements in West Bank as Britain accuses settlers of ‘ethnic cleansing’ I haven't had a chance to post about this while traveling up to Acadia National Park this week.  But Canada, the United Kingdom, and France issued blanket sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday.  Any and all goods, services, and contracts are now forbidden if they stem from these settlements that continue being developed on stolen Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank.

On a solemn day like today - oddly enough with the weather around New York city very much like it was on September 11, 2001 (I'm in New Haven, Connecticut as I write this) - every single living President of the United States has been in attendance to the solemn ceremonies at Ground Zero... except one.  And that miserable excuse of a President can't even stay awake while attending a ceremony at the Pentagon.

File this in the "WTF" folder... Have our friends and family in Germany lost their ever loving minds?  That these far right nutcases are actually gaining enough power to influence the entire country? I always thought Germans were more intelligent than this.  (Or at the very least, they had memories clear enough to remember their mistakes from the 1930s)  Which truly poses a question I'll need to ask my brother-in-law or sister-in-law:  Is the MAGA insanity that's affected 30% of Americans contagious? 

Alternative for Germany, or AfD, has become a major political force in the 13 years since its founding.

President Donald Trump's political group is spending $10 million on ads in the Texas Senate race. This is MAGA, Inc.’s first significant spending commitment in the midterm elections.

The United States ambassador to Israel has condemned Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank, calling it an “act of terror.”