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Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of John F. Kennedy, went after President Donald Trump’s executive order declassifying files on the 1963 assassination of the former president.

“JFK conspiracy theories,” Schlossberg wrote in a social post to his X account hours after Trump signed the order in the Oval Office Thursday.

US President Donald Trump said Thursday he would seek to bring interest rates lower by unleashing energy production, and would speak to the Federal Reserve if needed.

"I'll demand that interest rates drop immediately," he told the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in a virtual address. "Likewise, they should be dropping all over the world. Interest rates should follow us all over."

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) reportedly summoned law enforcement on Thursday over "a guy" who entered a women's restroom in the Capitol — that turned out to be a false alarm.

According to Bloomberg News congressional reporter Billy House, "Rep. Lauren Boebert bursting out of the House Women's restroom during this afternoon's vote series, complaining to security personnel stationed in the nearby Speakers Lobby of 'a guy' inside the bathroom."

The State Bar of Texas on Wednesday moved to drop its lawsuit against Attorney General Ken Paxton for his attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, extending a cascade of legal and political wins for the once-embattled Republican leader.

In a court filing, lawyers with the bar’s Commission for Lawyer Discipline asked the Texas Supreme Court to dismiss the suit, citing the high court’s December decision to toss a separate state bar lawsuit against Paxton’s top aide, Brent Webster, for working with Paxton to challenge the 2020 outcome in battleground states won by Democrat Joe Biden.

by Andrew MARSZAL

In a cruel example of life imitating art, Menon's indie zombie apocalypse flick "Didn't Die" is all about how survivors of loss and disaster find the strength to cope through community, good humor and sheer resilience.

A MAGA attorney and fierce ally of Donald Trump lashed out at federal judges in Washington, D.C. on Thursday following scathing remarks from a judge, who spoke out against pardons for Jan. 6 rioters.

Judge Amy Berman Jackson became the latest federal judge to give Trump a slap on the wrist, Politico reporter Kyle Cheney noted on Thursday.

Former Fox News weekend co-host Pete Hegseth, President Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of defense, reportedly admitted paying a woman $50,000 after she accused him of sexual assault.

In answers provided to U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Hegseth revealed how much he paid the woman who accused him of rape at a GOP event in 2017, The Associated Press reported on Thursday.

The US Senate on Thursday confirmed John Ratcliffe with overwhelming bipartisan support as director of the CIA, filling a key post in President Donald Trump's national security team.

The upper house of the US legislature voted 74-25 to approve Ratcliffe, who served as the director of national intelligence from 2020-2021 during Trump's first term in office.

President Donald Trump will lose as he appeals to keep in place his executive order revoking birthright citizenship, former federal prosecutor Elie Honig told CNN's Jake Tapper on Thursday afternoon.

This comes after a Reagan-appointed federal judge in Seattle blocked the order, tearing into Trump's lawyers and calling the denial of passports to American-born children without citizen or permanent resident parents "a blatantly unconstitutional order."

President Donald Trump’s repeated claims on Wednesday about former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and the 2020 election all came under a factual microscope by CNN’s Daniel Dale.

“A lot of golden oldies there in terms of false claims by President Trump,” CNN anchor Jake Tapper said before Dale delivered his stinging fact check in response to Trump’s Oval Office comments just moments earlier.

Legislation to reduce the impact of increasingly devastating forest fires on US federal land passed the House of Representatives on Thursday as firefighters battled to tame the latest in a series of blazes threatening southern California.

One of the first bills to pass the lower chamber of Congress in Donald Trump's presidency, the Fix Our Forests Act would increase the pace and scale of forest management projects by speeding up environmental reviews, deterring frivolous lawsuits.