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U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell warned former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani that he could be sent to prison after he allegedly repeated lies claiming that two former Georgia election workers conspired against Donald Trump's White House run in 2020.

In an order issued on Monday, Howell granted Giuliani a 30-day extension, allowing him to explain why he should not be held in contempt for continuing to defame Ruby Freeman and Wandrea ArShaye "Shaye" Moss. Giuliani had agreed not to repeat lies about the two former election workers after they won a $148 million defamation judgment against him.

Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has not been doing well in courting senators on Capitol Hill to support her possible nomination as the Director of National Intelligence, according to a report.

President-elect Donald Trump declared he wanted the former Democratic presidential candidate on his team early on in the transition process, but she didn't hit Senate offices until Monday.

During a late November interview with The Bulwark's Sarah Longwell, attorney and Never Trump conservative George Conway predicted that many GOP senators, in 2025, will be too "spineless" to reject Donald Trump's most "appalling" nominees.

Conway, however, noted that Republicans will have only a small U.S. Senate majority next year, and that Trump's nominees could "go down" if a handful of GOP senators have enough of a "spine" to reject them.

Under questioning from Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), Louis DeJoy, the postmaster general appointed during President-elect Donald Trump's first administration, admitted that cuts planned by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) would not help the United States Postal Service.

Crockett's questions came during a Tuesday House Oversight Committee hearing. The Texas Democrat first posed her query to Postal Service Inspector General Tammy Hull.

Donald Trump's latest out-of-nowhere promise for his second term as president raised eyebrows and prompted laughter.

The president-elect posted the statement Tuesday, saying America is going to start building monuments to our great heroes and heroines again!!! DJT"

Former Democrat and lawmaker Tulsi Gabbard (HI) is visiting Capitol Hill this week in an effort to persuade senators that she can be trusted to handle the United States' most closely guarded secrets as Donald Trump's pick for director of national intelligence.

NBC News noted Wednesday that, "Gabbard’s bid has been largely overshadowed by other embattled picks, including Trump’s choice to lead the Defense Department, Pete Hegseth."

Retired Major General Randy Manner pushed back on Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) after he complained about President-elect Donald Trump and his MAGA supporters being called fascists.

During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Trump's mass deportation plans on Tuesday, Kennedy accused Manner of wanting "open borders."

A wind-fanned wildfire quickly spread early on Tuesday in Malibu, threatening homes and businesses in the coastal California community where many Hollywood elites reside.

The Franklin Fire broke out late Monday evening as most of Southern California was under a National Weather Service warning over the ongoing low humidity and high winds that are conducive to increased fire danger.

Republicans are hoping to hide the economic impact of Donald Trump's policies as they retake the levers of government next month, a business columnist warned Tuesday.

Many of the 2017 Trump tax cuts are set to expire next year, and the Congressional Budget Office estimates that full extension of those would add more than $4 trillion to the federal debt over the next decade. That might actually be a conservative estimate, wrote Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell.

Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, lashed out at President-elect Donald Trump's former Department of Justice for obtaining records of lawmakers, staffers and journalists during an investigation of leaks.

In a report released Tuesday, the Justice Department's inspector general said the DOJ targeted two lawmakers and 43 staffers in an effort to unearth leaks to journalists. Records of Trump's pick to be the next FBI director, Kash Patel, were obtained as a part of the investigation. Patel was serving as a House staffer at the time.

Conservative National Review analyst Ramesh Ponnuru urged fellow right-wing activists to push back hard on a key, controversial nominee for President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet in an article for The Washington Post published on Tuesday.

Specifically, Ponnuru demanded that the GOP "start a fight" over Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services — not because he is an avowed conspiracy theorist against vaccination, water fluoridation and 5G cell phone service who rejects the expertise of broad swathes of the scientific and medical communities, but because he's a former lifelong Democrat who is out of step with the GOP's views against abortion rights.

Overnight, President-elect Donald Trump continued his verbal assaults on Canada, America's largest trading partner and a top defense partner, by calling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau the "Governor" of the "Great State of Canada." Some Canadians are striking back.

After the November election, Trump announced that one of his first actions would be to impose massive tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China. The President of Mexico fought Trump in the press, explaining that his border demands were nonsensical since Mexico was already doing what he was calling for.

Donald Trump's newly built department that aims to slash federal funding is set for implosion as the president-elect throws together a pair of 'ticking time bombs," a reporter predicted Tuesday.

With Elon Musk and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) working side-by-side, the Department of Government Efficiency will devolve into "crazy town," said The New Republic's Greg Sargent in his Wednesday New Republic "Daily Blast" rundown.