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On a solemn day in Washington, D.C., as the world mourned the loss of a humanitarian leader, President-elect Donald Trump couldn't escape criticism for his faux pas at the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter.

Among the observations were those of former presidents lined up in the second row at Washington National Cathedral. It prompted some to wonder what Trump's funeral would be like.

A top Florida Republican running for Congress asserted this week that the GOP has been drawing congressional districts to benefit Republicans, a move that brought criticism from one of his primary rivals.

At a campaign event in North Florida on Monday night, Florida Chief Financial Officer and District 1 congressional candidate Jimmy Patronis acknowledged that the district was gerrymandered by state Republicans in the 1990s, and that the party has continued to maintain that practice ever since.

The author of a landmark report on extremism in the military is worried that the "sleeping danger" within the armed forces will erupt into official policy during Donald Trump's second presidency.

Bishop Garrison spearheaded an internal investigation by the Department of Defense in 2021 to identify extremist activity within the military, and his efforts made him the target of a right-wing smear campaign – in which Pentagon chief nominee Pete Hegseth joined from his perch at Fox News – that ultimately shelved his recommendations, reported The Guardian.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to reject President-elect Donald Trump's request to block sentencing in his hush money case.

Trump is to be sentenced on Friday after being convicted by a New York jury in May of 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.

Political analyst Kevin Drum on Thursday took stock of X owner Elon Musk's promotion of falsehoods about the fires decimating California, and came away with the unsettling conclusion that his lies are becoming too numerous and fast to debunk.

Writing at his Jabberwocking blog, Drum ran down multiple false claims Musk promoted about the fire, including claims about emergency water tanks being emptied before the fire began and the city of Los Angeles supposedly slashing its fire department budget.

It is the world's most exclusive society and meetings are limited to infrequent state occasions, but the so-called American Presidents Club was in session Thursday to see off departed comrade Jimmy Carter.

The five living men who have occupied the White House -- Joe Biden and his predecessors Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump -- came together at Washington's National Cathedral for their first encounter since the 2018 funeral of another former president, George H.W. Bush.

A group of arsonists were seen setting fires in non-burning areas of Los Angeles as wildfires ravaged nearby regions.

Neuroscientist and podcaster Andrew D. Huberman shared a video on Thursday of men allegedly setting fires in urban areas.

The clock is running out on Donald Trump’s efforts in the New York judicial system to delay criminal sentencing, as a judge in the state’s highest court rejected his motion Thursday morning. Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts of business fraud stemming from his “hush money” case. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg declared the convictions were for "falsifying New York business records in order to conceal his illegal scheme to corrupt the 2016 election.

Trump's last hope appears to be for the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene, a request he made Wednesday. Some experts have suggested the Supreme Court lacks jurisdiction in the case—an argument Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is now making.

The 2-million-member-strong Service Employees International Union announced Wednesday that it is joining the AFL-CIO, bolstering the ranks of the largest labor federation in the United States as unions prepare to fight the incoming Trump administration.

"CEOs and billionaires want nothing more than to see workers divided, but we're standing here today with greater solidarity than ever to reach the 60 million Americans who say they'd join a union tomorrow if the laws allowed and to unrig our labor laws to guarantee every worker in America the basic right to organize on the job," AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler said in a statement.

Italy's far-right prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, said on Thursday Elon Musk's political interventions only caused outrage because he wasn't left-wing -- and that foreigners had been interfering in Italian politics for years.

Meloni, head of the post-Fascist Brothers of Italy party, said Musk was exercising his right to free speech. Instead, she accused powerful people on the left of political interference, including billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros.