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The prospect that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will have a smooth path to being confirmed as Donald Trump's choice to head up Health and Human Services (HHS) suffered a blow on Thursday.

According to a report from NBC News, over 15,000 doctors and medical professionals signed on to a letter calling the choice by the president-elect a "slap in the face" to science.

In a racist and bigoted tirade on Thursday, conservative influencer Charlie Kirk blamed the California wildfires on lesbians and a lack of "white men" firefighters.

"California has been the petri dish," Kirk bellowed on his Thursday podcast. "It has been the Wuhan Institute of Virology for the woke mind virus."

A Republican senator laid on the flattery thick after seeing a photo of Donald Trump and Barack Obama talking at Jimmy Carter's funeral.

The pair of former presidents were seated next to one another in the second row of the late president's service, and many observers noticed them speaking frequently and cordially, despite Trump's insistence for years that Obama was not born in the U.S., and Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) told right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson that demonstrated Trump's growing power.

Justice Samuel Alito accepting a telephone call from Donald Trump, hours before the President-elect would file a motion with the U.S. Supreme Court to delay sentencing in his criminal business fraud case, was an "unmistakable breach" of ethics and judgment, and warrants recusal from the case, a longtime judicial ethics and policy expert says.

Alito told ABC News the two did not discuss the case, and reportedly said Trump called for a job reference regarding a former clerk of Alito's.

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.