The House of Representatives has adopted new rules that would make it harder to trigger a vote to oust a speaker. House lawmakers voted 215-209 along party lines to set the chamber’s rules for the 119th Congress. Among them was a measure to raise the threshold for calling a “motion to vacate the chair” –…
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., narrowly held onto the gavel in a nail-biter vote on Friday afternoon. Republicans eager to swear in President-elect Trump later this month and capitalize on their control of the House, Senate and White House avoided the same fate of the past two drawn-out speaker elections. After some wrangling by both…
Nicole Kidman says the key to her successful 18-year marriage to Keith Urban is in their bathroom — more specifically, their shower. The 57-year-old actress admitted that she sings in the shower and, no surprise, so does her country music star husband. “I also hear Keith singing in the shower, and I’ll hear his new…
EXCLUSIVE: President-elect Donald Trump slammed Judge Juan Merchan for denying his request to dismiss the charges against him in New York v. Trump, telling Fox News Digital Democrats “just want to see if they can get a pound of flesh because every case has failed.” Merchan denied Trump’s request to toss his guilty verdict in…
Democratic lawmakers had mixed reactions to Republican Rep. Mike Johnson being re-elected as speaker of the House for the 119th Congress. Lawmakers gathered on Capitol Hill on Friday to vote for a speaker before the new Congress could be commenced. Johnson won the speaker race during the first round of voting, but all GOP lawmakers…
President-elect Donald Trump announced via Truth Social his former State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus will serve as Deputy Special Presidential Envoy for Middle East Peace. In a post Friday afternoon, Trump announced Ortagus will work under Steven Witkoff, a New York real estate tycoon selected for Middle East envoy in November. “Morgan fought me for three…
A missing 7-year-old boy survived five days alone in an African game park, alongside elephants and lions, in what Zimbabwean politicians are calling “a true miracle.” Tinotenda Pudu spent nearly a week alone in Matusadonha game park after “wander[ing] away” and losing his sense of direction, Mutsa Murombedzi, a Member Parliment in Zimbabwe, wrote in…
Social media users ripped into Vice President Kamala Harris for appearing to get the words to the Pledge of Allegiance wrong in the U.S. Senate on Friday. Before swearing in the senators of the 119th Congress, Harris led the pledge and accidentally mixed up its famous opening words, “I pledge allegiance to the flag of…
Virginia police have arrested a registered nurse in connection with a twisted attack that left a vulnerable newborn in a hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit with an “unexplainable fracture” in November – and additional charges could come as detectives continue to probe a half dozen similar incidents. The 26-year-old suspect, Erin Elizabeth Ann Strotman, was…
Boise State may have just made the College Football Playoff, but it’s apparent offensive coordinator Dick Koetter is worried about the team’s future success. The Broncos won the Mountain West and earned an automatic bye into the CFP but fell to No. 6 Penn State in the Fiesta Bowl New Year’s Eve. With NIL hot…