Pentagon chief makes impassioned defense of women in combat ABC News’ Luis Martinez reports on comments that are the strongest statement from the military since Pete Hegseth was tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to lead the Department of Defense.

Matt Gaetz withdraws his name to be Trump's attorney general "It is clear that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction to the critical work of the Trump/Vance Transition," Gaetz wrote in a post on X.

Jussie Smollett's conviction in hoax attack overturned by Illinois court The Illinois Supreme Court has thrown out former "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett’s conviction for lying about a 2019 hate crime.

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Former Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz announced Thursday he is withdrawing his name from consideration to be President-elect Donald Trump's attorney general. "I remain fully committed to see that Donald J. Trump is the most successful President in history," Gaetz added. "I will forever be honored that President Trump nominated me to lead the Department of Justice and I'm certain he will Save America." Todd Blanche has been picked to be the deputy attorney general and Emil Bove as principal associate deputy attorney general. Matt Gaetz withdraws from consideration as Donald Trump's attorney general originally appeared on abcnews.go.com

LOADING ERROR LOADINGWhen it comes to the public’s ability to pry documents loose from federal agencies, Donald Trump’s supporters accept nothing less than full disclosure and have spent the past few years bombarding federal agencies with requests for records. Their job is not to decide what they think is worth, you know, releasing or not.”The Trump administration has a record of doing exactly what Howell takes issue with. During Trump’s first year in office, federal agencies set a new record for censoring and withholding government documents requested through FOIA, The Associated Press reported at the time. Former Interior Secretary David Bernhardt has complained about the flood of document requests from left-wing organizations during the first Trump administration. “I think we saw some of both in the first Trump administration.

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Dramatic footage shows lava raging at Iceland volcano The volcano, on Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula, has erupted seven times this year.

Our earlier pieces addressed bicultural Latinos, the heartland, cross-generational viewers and insights about age, race and gender. He also garnered more voters who make less than $100,000 annually and made meaningful advances among voters without a college education. Herewith, the second of ESG’s deep dives into the American Audience, presented in an encore run in light of all this new information from the 2024 election. We often think we know what America looks like, but our perceptions often don’t match the data. Never discuss politics, religion or money at a dinner party?

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But it is our Washington bureau, led by the incomparable Elisabeth Bumiller, that has in many ways reinvented what it means to cover a president. And so, it is with gratitude and admiration that we share the news that Elisabeth has decided to step down as Washington bureau chief. Elisabeth became bureau chief in 2015 as the 2016 presidential election was heating up. In her nearly 30 years at The Times, Elisabeth has held a range of positions, including City Hall bureau chief on Metro, White House correspondent, Pentagon reporter and Politics reporter covering John McCain's 2008 campaign. We'll have more to say soon about the next Washington bureau chief.

Like most of Trump’s other nominees, Whitaker is wildly unqualified for the role. Likely, he’ll wander around Europe like Gordon Sondland did, doing personal errands for Trump, often involving grift. Unlike most of Trump’s nominees, Whitaker has at least been able to get and sustain security clearance in the past. Yes, there are reasons to focus on Trump’s five most outrageous nominees, but not always for the main reasons they’re wildly unqualified. It matters that Russia keeps calling Tulsi Gabbard, whom Trump wants to lead the entire Intelligence Community, their girlfriend.

There is a variety of guidance about which vitamins and supplements people should take for better health — especially on social media. Amina Khan, a pharmacist in the U.K. and founder of The Pharmacist Beauty, addressed her nearly 300,000 followers on TikTok about the three supplements she’d never take. A pharmacist is questioning the efficiency of multivitamins, as well as supplements for hair, skin and nails. Doses of each vitamin in multivitamins are "so low they hardly have an effect on you," said one pharmacist. Original article source: 'I'm a pharmacist, and I wouldn't take these 3 vitamin supplements'

Preliminary genomic analysis of the H5N1 variant of the avian influenza virus that infected the patient revealed potential mutations in genome sites known to increase susceptibility to the virus. This may indicate that the H5N1 avian influenza virus has the ability to become more similar to the human virus than the avian virus, but it is not yet clear what effect this mutation will have on humans and how dangerous it may be. The deaths and decline in chickens have also led to rising egg prices, with the average price of a 12-pack in October 2024 reported to be $3.37 (about 520 yen), up 30.4% from the same month last year. 'Avian flu is the single biggest factor affecting egg prices,' said Bernd Nelson, an economist with the American Farm Bureau Federation. 'As avian flu comes and goes, egg prices go up and down in waves.'