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Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) took to X on Christmas Eve to thank President-elect Donald Trump for doing something extraordinary: Making Christmas exist again.

"Thanks to President Trump, Christmas is back in America," said the senator and former football coach.

Revelations that President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Internal Revenue Service aggressively promoted an often misused pandemic-era tax credit, which is raising new questions about his motives for the position.

Senate Democrats preparing to grill former U.S. Rep. Billy Long of Missouri – who Trump named as his nominee to serve as the commissioner of the IRS – have already requested information from Lifetime Advisors, the lawsuit-plagued consulting firm he hopped on board with after leaving Congress in 2023, the New York Times reported.

With President-elect Donald Trump once again making noise about seizing Greenland from Denmark, MSNBC columnist Hayes Brown decided to examine the origins of Trump's years-long fixation on buying the large ice-covered territory.

After reviewing past reports on Trump national security officials' interactions with him during his first term about Greenland, Hayes finds that Trump seems to simply covet Greenland because it's a large piece of land.

The former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch is mentally incompetent to stand trial for allegations he ran a sex-trafficking ring, argued his attorneys, according to The Daily Beast.

According to newly unsealed court documents from Long Island "defense lawyers for Michael Jeffries, 80, said that a neuropsychologist concluded, following an examination, that he likely has dementia with behavioral disturbance, Alzheimer’s disease, and Lewy body dementia. In a joint letter, the defense lawyers and prosecutors have asked for a competency hearing," reported Kevin Fallon.

An anonymous letter circulating around Lincoln County, Oregon is reportedly encouraging residents to track and report “brown folks” they suspect to be in the country illegally, according to media reports.

The letter – which wound up in the mailboxes of several county officials – was roundly condemned in recent days by state and local leaders as “racist” and unhelpful, ABC News reported. The outlet added that the anonymous letter is littered with typos and makes various threatening statements against undocumented immigrants.

Multiple critics called out CNN this week for purportedly normalizing President-elect Donald Trump's idea of "buying" Greenland, invading Panama and possibly even Canada.

Trump spent this past weekend ranting about the high costs of ships passing through the Panama Canal and declared that it's such a ripoff that the United States should take back the canal. While it would violate a 1977 treaty and involve an invasion of U.S. soldiers, Trump didn't stop there.

A former Missouri Republican candidate who went viral for extreme, hate-filled stunts this year appears to be gearing up for a new campaign in Texas — and she kicked it off with a video stunt so graphic and horrifying that even Elon Musk's X platform restricted it.

Valentina Gomez, a real estate investor and former college swimmer known for her far-right views, posted a video of herself shooting a dummy tied to a chair in the back of the head.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is warning Elon Musk that a rude awakening is coming.

Fox News reporter Chad Pergram interviewed the Libertarian-leaning Republican, who discussed his ongoing crusade to reduce government spending, which he acknowledged so far have been fruitless.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a staunch conservative, pushed back after Newsmax host Chris Salcedo argued that President Joe Biden's pardons and commutations should be revoked because he wasn't "of sound mind."

"Sir, Joe Biden is commuting sentences for inmates on death row," Salcedo told Paxton in a Christmas Eve interview. "Some have suggested that since Robert Hur determined that Joe Biden wasn't of sound mind to stand trial for the crimes he committed, you know, stealing classified information from this country for over four decades, that a challenge to these pardons could be made based on Joe Biden not being of sound mind."

Last week’s spending bill fiasco on Capitol Hill may have signaled the end of Rep. Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) tenure as House speaker.

And his fate may just rest in the hands of President-elect Donald Trump, according to three House Republicans who shared their growing frustrations with Johnson to the Daily Caller.

Outgoing Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) has just over a week left before she'll be replaced by Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), but a government watchdog group alleges that she broke a key law on her way out the door.

The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) said Sinema used campaign funds for personal purposes, cited The Arizona Republic on Tuesday. The group says that it has filed an official complaint.

Federal prosecutors managed to win a conviction against former Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) on one of the most dramatic and blatant corruption cases in recent U.S. history. But they may have violated the Constitution when they showed evidence to the jury, reported Politico — and it could give Menendez an opening to get a new trial, and possibly beat the charges.

Menendez, a longtime staple of New Jersey politics who already beat a completely different set of corruption charges a decade ago, was convicted of conspiracy to commit bribery, actions to benefit Egypt, and conspiracy for a public official to act as a foreign agent. Prosecutors detailed how he and his wife accepted bribes to take official actions on behalf of Egypt and Qatar, accepting hundreds of thousands from foreign officials in cash, mortgage payments, and even gold bars which he went on to hide in his house.

A massive increase in defense spending is set to hit Greenland in a move that would allow the Artic territory to fortify its military’s strength.

The announcement came just hours after President-elect Donald Trump again insisted that the United States should acquire the semi-autonomous part of Denmark for purposes of America’s “national security and freedom.”