A majority has spoken. A disappointed minority may not admire the judgment rendered, but it must respect the right of a majority to express it. Else, to paraphrase the poet, what’s a democratic republic for? The election was clearly one in which voters’ perceived interests outweighed their professed values. Surely, not all of those supporting Donald Trump were applauding his character and the amoral values he represents. Given the complex factors that shape voting behavior, it is reasonable...

Bluesky, an alternative to Elon Musk’s X, has surged in popularity in the wake of Donald Trump’s election victory. The social network said it had signed up 1m additional users in the seven days since the election. It is on the cusp of hitting 15m users. Bluesky has risen towards the top of download charts in the US and UK in recent days.

President-Elect Donald Trump's latest selection for his next administration is facing immediate backlash from some within the Senate GOP, as they say his attorney general pick Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., will not get confirmed. "He will never get confirmed," a Republican senator, granted anonymity to speak freely, told Fox News Digital. One Senate Republican source simply said, "Ain’t gonna happen," about the prospect of Gaetz's confirmation. THUNE WINS SECRET BALLOT TO BECOME NEW SENATE GOP...

President-Elect Donald Trump has proposed a dramatic shakeup in American education: "disbanding" or drastically reducing the power of the Department of Education (DOE), a move that would shift control and funding of public schools back to local communities. While Trump's specific plan and choice of secretary have yet to be announced, Neal McCluskey, the director for educational freedom at libertarian think tank Cato Institute, said there's a high likelihood Trump's agenda of...

It all started with an uncertain smile and a nervous laugh at a press conference a grieving young father didn’t even know he was going to be holding. On Friday, Dec. 14, 2012, Robbie Parker’s world imploded when his 6-year-old daughter, Emilie, was among 20 first graders and 6 educators who were killed in one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Inundated with calls from reporters, Parker, a neonatal intensive care unit physician’s...

President-elect Donald Trump has promised to carry out the largest deportation project in American history, using the military and local law enforcement to do it, in a move that could echo the last major effort to remove migrants en masse in the 1950s. Dubbed "Operation Wetback", hundreds of thousands of mostly Mexican undocumented immigrants were forcibly removed or self-deported during President Dwight D. Eisenhower's term. The program's name was derogatory even at the time, referring to...

FBI officials Wednesday are set to announce a significant reward for information leading to the arrest of the man who they suspect attempted to set three ballot boxes on fire in Oregon and Washington a week before the November election. Hundreds of ballots were destroyed in one Clark County precinct but fire suppression equipment in two boxes in Multnomah County largely spared destruction of voters’ ballots. Crime Stoppers of Oregon had previously issued a reward of up to $2,500 late last month...

Donald Trump’s decision to nominate Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) as his attorney general managed to inspire new levels of social media face-palming. Yes, even more than his choice of Fox News host Pete Hegseth to be secretary of defense. Of course, that’s bound to happen when your AG candidate is being investigated by fellow members of Congress because he allegedly “engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, accepted...

Democratic governors J. B. Pritzker (Illinois) and Jared Polis (Colorado) revealed on Wednesday that they will spearhead a national gubernatorial initiative to protect against threats to democracy. Governors Safeguarding Democracy (GSD) will launch as a nonpartisan coalition aimed at “[leveraging] the collective strength, experience, and institutional knowledge in governors’ offices across the country to craft laws and policies that protect the rule of law and serve the people of our great...

The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said that People's Republic of China (PRC) hackers breached commercial telecommunication service providers in the U.S. The breached entities have been warned, and the agencies are proactively alerting other potential targets of elevated cyber activity. "The U.S. government's continued investigation into the People's Republic of China (PRC) targeting of commercial telecommunications infrastructure has revealed a broad and...