(NewsNation) — President-elect Donald Trump has doubled down on merging the U.S. and Canada following Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's resignation. On Tuesday, Trump threatened "economic force" to annex Canada, echoing his interest in buying Greenland and controlling the Panama Canal,

(The Hill) - President-elect Trump blamed California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) for the massive wildfires that are blazing through the Los Angeles area, arguing he should have signed a declaration to pump more water through California to prevent the situation. “Governor

Members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus are holding their fire despite Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) bucking their preferred strategy for passing President-elect Trump’s agenda, arguing that the ultimate product is more important than the configuration. The Freedom Caucus’s board of

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, is urging the Department of Justice (DOJ) to rescind a number of internal opinions dealing with a president’s military powers while asking for clarification on domestic use of

Seven House Democrats flipped their votes to "yes" on a GOP-led bill named after the slain Georgia student Laken Riley that would require detention of migrants arrested for theft. The Laken Riley Act became the first House bill passed this year,

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) on Tuesday took the necessary procedural steps to place Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-Ala.) bill blocking transgender athletes from women’s sports on the Senate calendar. The step sets up a vote on Tuberville’s bill in the

The Senate on Tuesday approved its organizing resolution for the 119th Congress, officially setting the composition of committees and greenlighting nomination hearings to take place in the coming weeks.  The upper chamber adopted the resolutions, one for the majority and another

A felony defendant in a case related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol has been granted permission to travel to Washington, D.C., this month to attend President-elect Trump’s inauguration, the first known instance of such a request

Former Ohio Department of Health Director Amy Acton announced on Tuesday that she’s running for governor, becoming the first Democrat to enter the race to replace term-limited Gov. Mike DeWine (R). “I’m a doctor, not a politician,” she said in a

(The Hill) -- President Joe Biden said early Wednesday that he thinks he would have beaten President-elect Donald Trump if he stuck with his reelection bid in an interview with USA Today. “It’s presumptuous to say that, but I think yes,” the

Attorney General Merrick Garland plans to release only the volume of special counsel Jack Smith’s report dealing with Donald Trump’s plans to subvert the transfer of power after losing the 2020 election, holding back on sharing the Mar-a-Lago report while

(The Hill) -- President-elect Donald Trump has doubled down on his suggestion of a merged United States and Canada following Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to resign. Some have shrugged off Trump’s suggestion that Canada should “become the 51st state” as an

President-elect Trump said that Republicans are working to craft a “powerful” piece of legislation to advance his agenda. Republicans had already begun preparing to use a special procedure known as budget reconciliation to bypass Democratic opposition in the Senate to extend

Colleges and universities are preparing for new legal and political territory as President-elect Trump returns to office.  Concerns for international students, GOP attacks on higher education and increased protests on campus are just some of the worries on administrators' minds.  “I think

President-elect Trump faced the media at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Tuesday, the day after Congress had certified his victory in November’s election. The press conference came 13 days before Trump will be inaugurated, at which point he will become