Latest Headlines

The woman convicted of murdering legendary Tejano singing icon Selena is seeking parole as inmates say there is a "bounty on her head" within Texas prison, reported WJLA and The New York Post.

Yolanda Saldívar, 64, has been serving a life sentence for three decades over the shooting of the 23-year-old Latina icon. Saldívar has a hearing planned in March to determine whether she will be freed.

Elon Musk is sleeping near Donald Trump in a cottage at the Mar-a-Lago club that would normally cost at least $2,000 each night.

Musk is staying in the Banyan cottage several hundred feet from the big house, A source told The New York Times. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, the Banyan is an "unusually shaped tree" native to the Indian subcontinent that "spreads laterally indefinitely."

The recent dust-up in MAGA world created by Vivek Ramaswamy’s throwing blame on America’s supposed cultural problem is a glaring misunderstanding of the sources of American success, according to conservative columnist David Brooks.

Perhaps Ramaswamy, the tech billionaire tapped by the incoming president to slash government spending, “doesn’t understand what makes America great,” Brooks wrote Monday in a stinging takedown of Ramaswamy for the Atlantic.

President-elect Donald Trump took to his social media site to stir speculation that he intends to merge Canada with the United States.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump reshared a screenshot of a report that Shark Tank co-host and Canadian Kevin O'Leary — not Prime Minister Justin Trudeau or any other Canadian leaders — would discuss the merger of the two countries.

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) suggested Monday he might vote for Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) for speaker of the House because he did not "cheat on his wife."

During a Monday interview on Fox News, Burchett was asked if he would support Johnson's speakership after being endorsed by President-elect Donald Trump.

Special counsel Jack Smith has officially handed over the classified documents case and the election interference case against Donald Trump to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

In court filings obtained by Politico, Smith declared he was "removing" five DOJ attorneys who had been involved in the cases.

Georgia's top prosecutor is publicly urging the state Supreme Court not to take up an appeal of a lower court's decision disqualifying Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the election racketeering case against President-elect Donald Trump and several of his associates.

"The Georgia Court of Appeals has ruled that the Fulton County DA created her own conflict and rightfully removed her from the case against President-elect Trump," wrote Attorney General Chris Carr. "'Lawfare' has become far too common in American politics, and it must end. As such, I would encourage the Georgia Supreme Court to not take her appeal."

MAGA attorney Mike Davis demanded more than a resignation from D.C.'s top prosecutor Matthew Graves on Monday, calling for "severe" consequences for Graves' role in imprisoning Jan. 6 rioters.

Graves, who has served as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia for the past three years, announced that he would leave his post as of Jan. 16, 2025. Graves was responsible for charging around 1,600 people in connection with the Capitol riots of 2021, some 1,100 of whom have already been sentenced.

Former White House Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley insisted that Donald Trump continued to have a "good relationship" with Elon Musk after Fox News host Jonathan Hunt suggested that the president-elect had become "slightly annoyed" with his attention-seeking billionaire friend.

During a Monday interview on Fox News, Hunt asked Gidley about reports that Trump was tiring of Musk.

Donald Trump chose his new buddy Elon Musk over his MAGA loyalists in a recent crackup of his coalition, and a columnist teased out what that means for his presidency.

The tech billionaire drew the ire of Trump's hardcore anti-immigrant base – including Steve Bannon, Laura Loomer and Charlie Kirk – by trashing American workers and defending his use of H-1B visas to bring in skilled foreign workers at his companies, but the president-elect stayed out of the dispute that raged for days online, wrote Salon columnist Heather Digby Parton.

China reportedly hacked the Treasury Department in what the United States is calling a "major incident" — the second time the department has been hacked in the last four years.

The New York Times reported Monday that there were already reports that China was able to make it deep into U.S. telecommunications systems, allowing them to access calls and text messages from U.S. officials and more.

National security expert and longtime writer Marcy Wheeler says Democrats are ignoring a key role that a key Donald Trump nominee played in the taking of classified documents.

Trump and two aides were indicted, with the former earning 40 felony counts related to the mishandling of classified documents. The judge Trump appointed dismissed the case, not based on the evidence or the case itself but on the appointment of the special counsel to oversee it. The 11th District Court of Appeals will decide whether to uphold the decision.

The Guardian recently wrote a profile of a right-wing philosopher named Curtis Yarvin who is highly influential among many top Trump allies, including Vice President-elect J.D. Vance, as well as big tech investors such as Peter Thiel.

As the publication explains, Yarvin is explicitly anti-democracy and instead advocates a form of "Caesarism" that he describes as a "form of one-man rule: halfway... between monarchy and tyranny."