The Senate Foreign Relations Committee holds a confirmation hearing for Marco Rubio serve as Secretary of State.
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In a statement today, President Biden, in the final days of his presidency, shared that U.S. citizens would be part of the hostages released by Hamas under a cease-fire agreement concerning the Gaza Strip. However, he did not acknowledge President-elect Donald Trump’s role in pressuring Hamas.
“I’m proud to say Americans will be part of that hostage release in phase one,” Biden, 82, remarked during a briefing at the White House. This came after Qatar announced the deal, which includes the potential release of hostages as soon as Sunday.
Despite repeated questioning, Biden refused to acknowledge Trump’s influence, even after the latter had warned of severe consequences if Hamas didn’t release the hostages by the time he assumes office on Monday.

On Tuesday, during an appearance on MSNBC’s “Deadline,” former Republican Representative David Jolly stated that on Inauguration Day, “tens of millions of Americans” would declare, “that Donald Trump’s not my president.”

Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) sharply criticized his Democratic colleagues during Tuesday’s hearing, accusing them of hypocrisy as they attacked Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense. Mullin particularly took issue with those who continued to question Hegseth’s qualifications to lead such a significant department.

At today’s Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing, Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) questioned Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump’s nominee to be Secretary of Defense.
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Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind., joins ‘Fox & Friends’ ahead of his committee’s confirmation hearing with secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth.
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President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Pentagon faced tough questions from Democrats at his Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday about his drinking, allegations of misconduct and comments about the role of women in the military.
A former Fox News host and retired Army major who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, Pete Hegseth denied the allegations from Democrats on the Senate Committee on Armed Services about his personal conduct and said they were part of a “coordinated smear campaign orchestrated in the media.”
“I’m willing to endure these attacks, but what I will do is stand up for the truth and for my reputation—false attacks, anonymous attacks, repeated ad nauseam, printed ad nauseam as facts,” he said.

Fox News host Jesse Watters discusses the questions surrounding the initial cause of wildfires in Los Angeles County on ‘Jesse Watters Primetime.’
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Christopher Wray, the outgoing head of the FBI, announced Sunday that he would step down once President-elect Donald Trump takes office. He made this decision to prevent the bureau from becoming further embroiled in the political turmoil surrounding its actions, particularly the 2022 search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
In a comprehensive interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” Wray, 58, spoke about his upcoming resignation, the controversial raid on the Florida estate, and the significant threat posed by China to the United States.
Wray described his decision to resign before the completion of his 10-year term as “one of the hardest decisions” he has ever had to make. He shared this decision last month and elaborated on his reasoning during the interview.

Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) Deputy Chief Kristine Larson faced backlash for comments she made in a video, suggesting that fire victims were at fault for being in the “wrong place” during an emergency.
Larson, who oversees the Equity and Human Resources Bureau at the LAFD, addressed concerns about the physical strength of female firefighters, particularly whether they could manage to carry a man out of a burning building. In response, she said that if she had to carry him out, “he got himself in the wrong place.”
In the same video, Larson also stood by the department’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) hiring practices, as reported by the New York Post.