Day: January 14, 2025

Republicans seem more than happy to drag Hegseth across the finish line, while Democrats miss easy layups, Eric Garcia and Andrew Feinberg write

Less than a week before leaving the White House, President Joe Biden is lifting the state sponsor of terrorism designation for Cuba.

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump’s choice to head up the Pentagon, faced a Senate confirmation grilling with the Armed Services Committee.

Investigators arrived at President Yoon Suk Yeol’s official residence early Wednesday, in a second attempt to detain the embattled leader for questioning over his short-lived declaration of martial law last month, according to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency.

Juan Manuel Sierra-Leyva has had multiple encounters with law enforcement since 2016.

With a possible TikTok ban just days away, many U.S. users are looking for alternative social media platforms to help them keep up with pop culture or provide the type of entertaining videos that popularized the short-form video app. TikTok, which has been a cultural phenomenon, could be banned on Jan. 19 under a law that forces the platform to cut…

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