On New Years Eve in Palm Beach, Florida, Melania Trump and her husband danced to the Village People's 1978 "YMCA" anthem to the crowd's amusement.
Donald and Melania Trump danced together to the president-elect's favorite song while at Mar-a-Lago during a New Year's Eve video, as Page Six reported.
Melania swayed to the anthem in Palm Beach, Florida, on Tuesday with her husband, who performed the favored dancing routines at election campaign rallies.
Donald’s eldest child, son Donald Trump Jr., 47, captioned in an Instagram video, showing Melania grooving to the song as she mouthed the lyrics to the track and moved her hands as she bobbed about, saying “It’s fun to stay at the YMCA!!!! Happy new year all!”
The dance moves of the incoming First Lady, which went viral, came as a surprise to users of social media. One user on X expressed their opinion:
"Never in my life did I think Melania Trump would be jamming to YMCA on New Year's. Trump has infected the whole country, including his family and Elon Musk, with his dance moves. Everyone is doing it.'
"Love Melania doping her own moves to YMCA,'" another said. "And how some people can't crack a smile at Trump doing his dance is beyond me."
Elon Musk, Trump's friend and now advisor , was also present. He appeared to be in high spirits as he carried his mini-me son, X AE A-Xii, who wore a suit that was nearly identical to his fathers,. Elon smiled as his son held onto his face for support on his shoulders.
As the club hosted a New Year's Eve celebration on Tuesday night, Trump momentarily addressed reporters in the vicinity of a red carpet that had been set up for the event.
His fleeting appearance onstage was to address the attendees, which included a number of his potential Cabinet members and other positions in his forthcoming administration.
Trump utilizes his tablet's Spotify account to play many songs that were frequently played at his campaign rallies during banquets with friends and family.
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, and Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and X, have all attended breakfasts, luncheons, and other social events at the Mar-a-Lago club.
According to online videos, Mike Love, one of the original members of the Beach Boys, performed the band's greatest hits under an outdoor tent over the weekend. Trump, who was being followed by Secret Service agents, wandered through the audience, swinging his fists to the music.
At other times of the evening, he stood near the pool, swaying his head in time to the music, alongside his wife, Melania.
Trump declared on Friday that the resort is the "Centre of the Universe" on social media, and he also mentioned that Bill Gates had requested to attend the event that evening.
The presence of the Microsoft co-founder amongst the rich and famous at to Mar-a-Lago was not specifically addressed by representatives of Trump and Gates.
The ISIS-inspired terrorist attack on New Year's Day in New Orleans has raised fresh alarm about mass immigration and the state of U.S. national security under outgoing president Joe Biden.
The vehicle that Shamsud Din Jabbar used to murder more than a dozen people reportedly crossed the southern border in November.
Fox News was first to report that the truck entered the U.S. two days before the attack.
The network later retracted that timeline and said the truck crossed into America on November 16. It is also unclear if Jabbar was the one driving at that time.
In the aftermath of the Bourbon Street massacre, Trump is calling the attack a warning about the dangers of having a porous southern border.
“When I said that the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in our country, that statement was constantly refuted by Democrats and the Fake News Media, but it turned out to be true,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on New Year's Day.
Trump's critics have taken a victory lap after it came to light that the suspect was not an illegal immigrant, but a U.S.-born Army veteran.
Still, Trump and his allies have pointed to Jabbar's radical Islamist ideology as an example of a foreign threat that was "imported."
"Islamist terrorism is an import. It is not 'homegrown.' It did not exist here before migration brought it here," Trump adviser Stephen Miller wrote on X.
The attack has brought new criticism of the FBI and its priorities under President Biden, who repeatedly claimed that domestic threats from white supremacists ranked at the top as dangerous criminal aliens poured across the border during his administration.
"The DOJ, FBI, and Democrat state and local prosecutors have not done their job. They are incompetent and corrupt, having spent all of their waking hours unlawfully attacking their political opponent, ME, rather than focusing on protecting Americans from the outside and inside violent SCUM that has infiltrated all aspects of our government, and our Nation itself," Trump wrote in another post.
The FBI said Thursday that Jabbar likely acted alone, after officials initially suggested he may have had collaborators.
The man rented the truck on December 30 in Houston, authorities believe, before driving to New Orleans. An ISIS flag was found in the vehicle after the attack, and Jabar also released videos declaring allegiance to the group before the attack.
A crucial vote in the House might soon alter how challenges are mounted against the House speaker. This change emerges from a recently released House Republicans' rules package aiming to fortify the vote count necessary to instigate a motion of no confidence against the House speaker.
This potential modification by House Republicans necessitates a significant jump in the vote count for initiating a no-confidence vote against the incumbent House speaker, moving from just one member to nine.
The rule suggests that a total of nine members of the majority party have to converge to trigger this newly complicated process, intended to showcase unity within a party in control of the White House and both Congressional chambers.
The rules package was released on Wednesday, accompanying the party's intent to show unity after securing control over central power structures. The plan projects that this package will be voted on this Friday, following the election and swearing-in of a speaker.
Internal components of the party have signaled support for these changes. The House Freedom Caucus and the Main Street Caucus leaders, two of the significant factions within the Republican Party, made public this agreement in November, aiming to present unity after the internal strife seen in the past two years.
Even though in the majority, ongoing squabbles continue to act as a stumbling block in the party's governance. Looking back to January 2023, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy from California was forced to placate conservatives, allowing a single member to initiate a vote of no confidence against the House speaker.
The consequences of these concessions persisted. About nine months later, these adjustments led to McCarthy's downfall. He wound up relying on Democratic votes to briefly avert a government shutdown. This incident marked the first-ever occasion in U.S. history of a speaker ousted via such a motion.
Current House Speaker Mike Johnson, from Louisiana, faces parallels to McCarthy's experience. Johnson too had to bank on Democratic votes for passing legal measures. His stance has since been threatened with ousting by the conservatives.
Despite receiving party support for another term in November, it remains uncertain whether Johnson will gather the necessary votes this Friday. Until now, no significant challenger to Johnson has been revealed.
In a recent radio interview in Louisiana, Johnson declared, "There's no other alternative for Speaker of the House, guys. There's no other candidate proposed, there's no other name circulated, because everyone knows that I'm the only one who can get the votes."
This chain of events could potentially remodel U.S. politics. Will the higher voting threshold sew unity within the majority party or will it just join a list of ongoing struggles? While unity endeavors are underway, all eyes will be on the outcome this Friday.
Donald Trump's return to the presidency has prompted discussion about accountability for the members of the FBI who conspired to undermine him during his first White House term.
One of the key players in that effort, Andrew McCabe, went to extraordinary lengths to obstruct Trump - opening a counterintelligence probe of the president's alleged Russian ties that was based on information the FBI knew was unreliable.
According to FBI documents, McCabe sought information from Christopher Steele on May 12, 2017, six months after the FBI had already fired Steele as a source.
McCabe became acting FBI director after Trump fired James Comey in May 2017. One of McCabe's first moves was to order investigations of Trump for espionage and obstruction.
As McCabe put it at the time, he was eager to make the Trump-Russia investigation stick after Trump fired Comey.
"I was very concerned that I was able to put the Russia case on absolutely solid ground, in an indelible fashion," McCabe told CBS in a 2019 interview. "That were I removed quickly, or reassigned or fired, that the case could not be closed or vanish in the night without a trace."
What McCabe did not say is that he turned to a discredited source to shore up the Russia probe.
A top DOJ official, Bruce Ohr, had warned McCabe about Christopher Steele's anti-Trump political bias as far back as August 2016. Steele, a former British spy, had compiled his infamous dossier alleging ties between Trump and Russia on behalf of the Clinton campaign through opposition research firm Fusion GPS.
Without divulging his ties to Clinton, the FBI repeatedly used Steele's unverified work to convince the FISA court to authorize surveillance on Trump campaign aide Carter Page. The FBI even fired Steele in November 2016 for credibility problems.
Still, McCabe's FBI reached out to Steele again to get more dirt on Trump in May 2017, according to RealClearInvestigations. Ohr confirmed to Congress that he reconnected Steele and the FBI and continued to relay information between them until November 2017.
With shocking hubris, McCabe later admitted in a 2019 CBS interview that there had been talks at the top levels of the FBI about removing Trump under the 25h Amendment. McCabe justified the drastic, and likely illegal, moves he took against Trump as a response to fears that Trump was working with Russia.
"I was speaking to the man who had just run for the presidency and just won the election for the presidency. And who might have done so with the aid of the government of Russia, our most formidable adversary on the world stage," McCabe said. "And that was something that troubled me greatly."
The Trump administration fired McCabe in 2018, hours before his retirement, after he was caught leaking to reporters and then lying about it. McCabe later sued to get his full pension back.
After leaving the FBI, McCabe joined CNN as a contributor, where he has continued to regularly criticize Trump and his alleged plans to use the FBI for retribution.
McCabe has ripped Trump's FBI director nominee, Kash Patel, as dangerous and unqualified.
“If you enter into that position with nothing more than a desire to disrupt and destroy the organization, there is a lot of damage someone like Kash Patel could do,” he said.
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The Houston mosque reportedly attended by terrorist Shamsud Din Jabbar, who killed 15 and injured dozens more in a truck rampage early New Year's Day, has told its members to shun questions from the FBI and refer them instead to the radical CAIR organization.
A statement from Masjid Bilal ISGH, a mosque in Houston, said, after the attack, "Assalamu Alaikum brothers and sisters. I'm sure many of you have heard about the tragic events that took place in New Orleans this morning that are now being classified as an 'act of terror' by the FBI.
"I want to emphasize the importance of everyone to stay very vigilant and aware of your surroundings. The safety of our community is the most important thing."
It continued, "If anyone is contacted by the media, it is very important that you do not respond. If approached by the FBI and a response is necessary, please refer to CAIR and ISGH. It is crucial that we stay united at this time as we condemn these terrible acts. Please stay safe."
It is signed off by JazakAllahu Khairun, "Masjid Bilal Management."
CAIR is the radicals Council on American-Islamic Relations and ISGH is the Islamic Society of Greater Houston.
Jabbar, 42, was discharged from the Army Reserve in 2020 and a report at the Gateway Pundit explained he "converted to Islam before spiraling into erratic behavior, according to family members who spoke with far-left New York Times."
"Dwayne Marsh, married to Jabbar's ex-wife, noted the suspect's increasingly bizarre actions, including cutting his hair drastically and displaying erratic behavior that prompted them to restrict his access to his daughters," the report said.
Law enforcement continues to investigate the motive for the horrific mass murder on Bourbon Street even as authorities have confirmed the terror aspect of the crime.
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There are – or at least were – barricades installed in New Orleans' Bourbon Street district to prevent terror attacks by people driving vehicles into crowds – as happened early New Year's Day when 15 were killed and dozens injured.
But they were removed for overhaul.
A report from NOLA explained the security barriers were installed in 2017 and designed to prevent people from driving into crowds along Bourbon Street.
They are removable stainless-steel bollards that were to be locked at each crosswalk along Bourbon between Canal and St. Ann streets.
But they were in the process of being replaced.
The repair and replacement project began in November and was scheduled for three months, the report said.
"The bollard project began in November and was scheduled to last three months. It involves removing and replacing sections of road to take out the existing bollards. A city press release on Tuesday night noted the project was ongoing, but did not provide details of work done thus far," the report said.
Bob Simms, spokesman, said the old barriers didn't work well.
"They were very ineffective. The track was always full of crap; beads and doubloons and God knows what else. Not the best idea, Simms said in the report. "Eventually everybody realized the need to replace them. They're in the process of doing that, but the new ones are not yet operational."
U.S. Rep. Troy Carter explained the barriers should have prevented any vehicle from driving down Bourbon. If they were not working, the city should have blocked access with heavy equipment, he said.
"If they were not operable, that's unacceptable. And if they were not operable, there should have been a Plan B. There should have been a tow truck," Carter said.
The report said the work partly was in reaction to the July 2016 mass murder in Nice, France, when a terrorist used a truck as a weapon to plow into a Bastille Day crowd, killing 86 and injuring hundreds more. A few months later a copycat killed 12 shoppers in a Berlin Christmas market.
A witness to Wednesday's attack, Jimmy Cothran, confirmed that the barriers were not being used:
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JERUSALEM – Middle East/Israel Morning Brief
Was Syria's former president Assad the victim of an attempted poisoning?
The U.K.'s Sun newspaper published an unverified report that Syria's former dictator Bashar al-Assad, who sought refuge in Moscow following his ouster from Damascus in early December, was the victim of an attempted poisoning.
Online account General SVR — supposedly run by a former top spy in Russia – says he was taken ill on Sunday.
It claims Assad, 59, asked for medical help then almost immediately began to "cough violently and choke."
The source said: "There is every reason to believe an assassination attempt was made." Assad was said to have been treated in his apartment and his condition supposedly stabilized on Monday.
The story is intriguing as there are competing narratives over who might have carried this alleged attack out. The Sun implied Assad's wife, Asma, who has reportedly filed for divorce from the deposed tyrant, could be behind it. Other possibilities include his Russian hosts – by no means averse to using poisoning to get rid of political opponents or inconvenient individuals – becoming potentially embarrassed by his presence. Perhaps a more far-fetched idea is it was done by a Syrian national, who somehow managed to be in close enough proximity to him to carry it out.
Hundreds call for intifada in Times Square demo
On the same day a disciple of the Islamic State tore over pedestrians on a New Orleans street, hundreds of pro-Hamas, anti-Israel Islamists – and their useful idiot followers – gathered in New York's Times Square to call for "intifada."
The protest – organized by the Palestinian Youth Movement, the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the People's Forum – was led in a chant of "There is only one solution: Intifada revolution," according to the Jewish News Syndicate.
Videos posted online captured a keffiyeh-clad woman shouting racial and antisemitic slurs at counter-demonstrators, including at a black woman in the small pro-Israel gathering.
"Palestine will be free and f**k you all and we are sending you back to Europe, you white b*tches. Go back to Europe! Back to where you came from. Germany is your homeland," the keffiyeh-clad woman shouted.
Hamas police chief and his deputy said killed in IDF strike on Gaza humanitarian zone
The Israel Air Force overnight Thursday eliminated Hamas Maj. Gen. Mahmoud Salah, director general of the police in the Gaza Strip, and his deputy, Brig. Gen. Hussam Mustafa Shawan "Abu Shurooq," reported the Jewish Press.
Eleven were killed and 12 injured in the bombing attack in the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
In a separate statement, the Hamas-run interior ministry condemned the killing of the two police officers, saying "they were performing their humanitarian and national duty in serving our people."
The Hamas-run police force is used to enforce strict discipline among the Gazan civilian population. There have been complaints about Hamas taking over supply convoys and brutally abusing anyone suspected of stealing the free goods distributed by international agencies and subsequently sold by the terrorist group.
Israeli victims of New Orleans terrorist remain in hospital
Two Israeli nationals remain hospitalized and on ventilators following a deadly ramming and shooting attack in New Orleans' French Quarter early New Year's Day, Elad Shoshan, Israel's consul to the U.S. Southwest and deputy consul general, told Ynet on Thursday.
One victim is stable and not in life-threatening condition, while the other is in moderate to serious condition. Both remain unable to communicate. "We hope to speak with them tomorrow," Shoshan said.
Capture of Hamas documents show terrorist organization's tactical depth, deficiencies in Israeli intelligence
Prior to the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on southern Israel, which have had the unintended consequence of upending the Middle Eastern order, the terrorist group reportedly spent up to seven years collecting intricate intelligence details ahead of its offensive.
Israel's Channel 12 News exposed documents that were found during the ground operation that showed years of effort on Hamas' part to gather intelligence about border towns and villages in Israel, including the movements and habits of leading local figures and security officers. Through meticulous information-gathering, Hamas was not only able to execute a surprise offensive but a precise one, reported The Media Line.
According to the Channel 12 News report, documents and sensitive information were collected for years. Hamas hacked surveillance cameras throughout southern Israel, and the organization managed to infiltrate sensitive systems, allowing them to diligently monitor the movements of critical security figures in the border area.
"Hamas did an excellent job using OSINT (open-source intelligence) and gained access to CCTV cameras, which are so prevalent today," said Prof. Kobi Michael, a researcher at the Institute of National Security Studies and the Misgav Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy,. "Together, this was an endless source of intelligence."
Palestinian Authority kicks out Al Jazeera for fomenting unrest in Judea and Samaria
The Palestinian Ministerial Committee, comprising representatives from the Ministries of Culture, Interior, and Telecommunications, on Wednesday announced the suspension of the broadcast operations of the Qatar-based Al Jazeera Media Network in the PA, the Jewish Press reported.
The committee also ordered the temporary suspension of work by all journalists, staff, and associated channels affiliated with Al Jazeera.
On May 4, 2024, the Israeli government shut down Al Jazeera's operations in Israel and authorized the confiscation of its equipment. This action followed the passage of a new law granting the prime minister and communications minister the power to temporarily close foreign media outlets on national security grounds. Later, on Sept. 22, 2024, Israeli military authorities shut down Al Jazeera's bureau in Ramallah. In response, the Foreign Press Association's Board of Directors stated, "Restricting foreign reporters and closing news channels signals a shift away from democratic values."
High-ranking Syrian delegation visits Saudi Arabia as part of charm offensive
The new Syrian government continued its push for acceptance and legitimacy via meetings with top level diplomats from European countries, as well as the United States and Arab states, as was highlighted on Wednesday by the arrival of a high-ranking delegation to Saudi Arabia, reported Israel National News.
Syria's new Foreign Minister, Asaad al-Shibani, expressed optimism about fostering stronger ties with Saudi Arabia during his visit to the kingdom on Wednesday, which marked the first foreign trip by Syria's new leadership following their rise to power last month, AFP reported.
"I have just arrived in the sisterly Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, accompanied by the Minister of Defense Murhaf Abu Qasra and the Head of the General Intelligence Service Anas Khattab," al-Shibani said in a statement on X.
Last month, a Saudi delegation met with Syria's new leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, in Damascus, according to a source close to the Saudi government.
Is Hamas regrouping in the Gaza Strip?
Hamas is making a substantial comeback by recruiting new forces, Channel 12 reported and The Jerusalem Post confirmed on Wednesday night.
Combined with forces from Palestinian Islamic Jihad together, Channel 12 said on Wednesday night that Hamas was up to between 20,000-23,000 fighters.
Information obtained by the Post indicated that recently, numbers were closer to around 12,000.
Over the last 15 months, there has been a gulf of a few thousand between the IDF and Netanyahu, casting doubt on the estimates.
In June, the IDF said that between 14,000-16,000 Hamas fighters had been wounded.
Elon Musk raises issue of U.K. grooming gangs, demands Tommy Robinson's release after Labour MP shuts down call for public inquiry
Elon Musk has turned up the temperature on an explosive row over grooming gangs after GB News revealed that Labour's Jess Phillips had shut down calls for a public inquiry into the scandal.
GB News exclusively revealed the Government had formally rejected repeated requests for a Home Office-led inquiry into historic child abuse in Oldham – sparking uproar on social media.
The Home Office had stressed the need to "learn from past mistakes and do everything possible to prevent future failures."
But in a domestic political row which has now gone international, Musk made the incendiary claim that the Birmingham Yardley MP should be imprisoned.
IDF suicide rate climbs after nearly 15 months of war
The IDF announced Thursday that 891 soldiers have been killed since the Hamas-led assault on October 7, 2023, marking one of the deadliest conflicts in Israel's history. The toll includes deaths from combat, accidents and suspected suicides and is the largest number since the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
Of the 891 fatalities, 528 occurred in 2023, with 512 attributed to operational activity. Most deaths happened around October 7, when 329 soldiers were killed, including local rapid-response teams, reported Ynet. Another 226 deaths were recorded in 2024.
Suicide cases have also surged, with 17 suspected cases in 2023–seven conscripts, four career soldiers and six reservists –compared to 14 in 2022. In 2024, suicides increased to 21 cases, including seven conscripts, two career soldiers and 12 reservists, all men.
Former defense minister Gallant resigns from Knesset, decries upcoming bill to exempt ultra-Orthodox from IDF service
Less than two months after being dismissed as defense minister, MK Yoav Gallant resigned from the Knesset on Wednesday evening, attacking the current government for undermining the security of the country even while insisting he would remain a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ruling Likud party, reported the Times of Israel.
In an announcement carried live on Israeli television, the senior Likud lawmaker recalled his decades of military and political service and took credit for destroying Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran's military capabilities – while also stating that he takes responsibility, as the former defense minister, for the lead up to the October 7, 2023, Hamas assault and the current war.
Gallant noted that he had spent "35 years in the Israel Defense Forces, a decade as a member of Knesset and minister in Israeli governments, including two dramatic years as defense minister."
Erdogan's son says 'Gaza will win' at Istanbul rally drawing tens of thousands
"Gaza will emerge victorious," the son of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told tens of thousands of attendees at an anti-Israel rally in Istanbul on Wednesday.
Businessman Bilal Erdoğan, 43, said in his speech on Istanbul's Galata Bridge over the Golden Horn: "Muslims in Syria were determined, patient, and they achieved victory. After Syria, Gaza will emerge victoriously from the siege."
Demonstrators waved Turkish and PLO flags and chanted "Free Palestine" at the rally organized by the National Will Platform, a coalition of more than 300 pro-Palestinian and Islamic groups.
In July, Turkish President Erdoğan threatened to invade Israel. "We must be very strong so that Israel can't do these things to Palestine. Just as we entered Karabakh, just as we entered Libya, we might do the same to them. There is nothing we cannot do," he said.
Iran to renew nuclear talks with European powers
Britain, France, and Germany will begin a new round of talks with Iran over its nuclear program in Geneva on January 13, Iranian foreign ministry announced on Tuesday, according to Iran International.
The announced date is a week before Donald Trump's inauguration and may be viewed by both sides as the final opportunity for a breakthrough before U.S. policy hardens.
Trump is expected to resume his first term strategy of Maximum Pressure upon returning to the White House on January 20.
Meanwhile, Iran has agreed to stricter monitoring by the U.N. nuclear agency at its Fordow site after significantly accelerating uranium enrichment to near weapons-grade levels, the watchdog stated in a report seen by Reuters.
Ireland's top Catholic cleric attacks Israel for 'merciless, disproportionate' Gaza war
Ireland's most senior Catholic figure has lambasted Israel's military campaign in Gaza as "merciless" and a "disproportionate" response to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas's invasion of the Jewish state last Oct. 7, according to the Algemeiner.
The New Year's message by Archbishop Eamon Martin came amid deteriorating relations between Israel and Ireland, the latter of which has been accused of normalizing antisemitism in daily life.
"In the past 15 months, for example, we have witnessed not only the egregious 7th October 2023 terror attacks by Hamas and Islamic Jihad on Israel, including the taking of hostages — 100 of whom are still held captive in Gaza — but we have also seen a merciless and disproportionate response by Israel," Martin said in his remarks.
Martin — the Archbishop of Armagh who has been Primate of All Ireland since 2014 — then cited casualty figures provided by Gaza's Hamas-run Health Ministry, which according to recent analyses have been inflated to defame Israel and support claims of genocide, to support his argument.
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Joe Biden has used the power of the president's office in America to pardon his son Hunter for crimes committed over a 10-year period, right after promising repeatedly he would not do that.
The move gave Hunter a free pass on his tax and gun felony convictions. And there are reports – and speculation – about how Biden yet will provide pardons to other family members and friends to protect them from possible charges for their various schemes once President-elect Donald Trump takes over the White House.
And now there are honors for friends of Biden who may or may not also ultimately be recipients of pardons.
And for one of those decisions, Biden is getting excoriated.
It was his decision to give Liz Cheney a Presidential Citizen medal even though there are those in Trump's incoming administration and high up in Congress, as well as a majority of Americans, who suggest she should be investigated by the FBI for possible criminal charges.
The Daily Mail reported Cheney, who represented Wyoming in Congress until she turned on Trump during his first term and her voters promptly gave her primary opponent a landslip victory, is among 20 picked by Biden to be given the special honor.
Cheney, along with the other leader of the anti-Trump January 6 investigation committee, set up in a partisan fashion then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Bennie Thompson are being honored for their "investigation" of those events.
The committee was partisan as Pelosi refused to let Republicans nominate their own members for the commission, instead picking two radically anti-Trump members of the party.
Then the committee staged televised events and issued reports that suppressed information exonerating Trump, and tried to make it look as though he was responsible for the violence, despite his urging supporters to protest "peacefully."
In fact, Democrats at that time refused Trump's suggestion for more National Guard troops to be on hand, and Pelosi later admitted in a video that was released that Democrats bore much of the responsibility for that day.
Biden's decision to honor Cheney was "pathetic," according to senior Trump adviser Jason Miller.
"With attacks happening in the United States and around the world, THIS is how Biden is spending his time today?" Miller wrote on X. He cited the two terror attacks on America on New Year's Day, which together left 16 dead and dozens injured.
And Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said, "President Biden was either going to pardon Liz Cheney or give her an award. She doesn't deserve either. She represents partisanship and divisiveness – not Wyoming."
The report said other recipients will include those to lobbied for Biden's far-left social agenda on LGBT and abortion issues.
Trump has called for Cheney and the other eight committee members to be jailed for their political antics in "investigating" the Jan. 6 events.
In fact, members of Congress also have called for Cheney to be investigated on claims she tampered with one of the committee witnesses who suddenly changed her testimony to try to damage Trump, testimony that subsequently was debunked by the Secret Service.
Those committee members also have been accused of destroying evidence about events that day.
A former adviser to Bill Clinton is calling for an investigation into the cover-up of Joe Biden's cognitive decline, as the lame duck president goes through the motions of his last days in power.
During a Fox News segment Tuesday, former Clinton pollster Doug Schoen said the media's cover-up is "worthy of an investigation" after a CBS journalist described Biden's cognitive decline as the most underreported story of the year.
As Biden now prepares to leave the White House behind, the public is getting confirmation of what was long suspected from the Wall Street Journal, which published a damning report in December detailing the elaborate steps Biden's aides took to insulate him from the outside world, and even from his own staff.
During a CBS broadcast Sunday, veteran journalist Jan Crawford called Biden's "obvious cognitive decline" the most underreported story of 2024. Schoen, responding days later on Fox, went further and said the mainstream media was part of a cover-up.
“In retrospect, it is one of the great unreported stories of our time or any time," Schoen said.
"I think it is clear, given the Wall Street Journal’s excellent comprehensive reporting that Joe Biden for a number of years, maybe even since 2021 or 2022, was not up to the job and the mainstream media, for whatever reason, covered up for him,” Schoen told Fox News.
“I think it’s worthy of an investigation, not to blame anyone for any illegal activity, but to understand what happened, why it happened and how we can avoid it in the future.”
Biden showed obvious signs of mental debility throughout his four years in office, and the public repeatedly expressed concern in opinion surveys. But the mainstream media did not report on Biden's decline until the full extent of it was laid bare in his June 27 debate with Donald Trump.
Once it was clear Biden had no chance of winning re-election, an effort to protect Biden from scrutiny gave way to a ruthless pressure campaign as Democrats and liberal media urged Biden to drop out.
After three weeks of spirited protest, Biden suspended his campaign and endorsed Kamala Harris, who went on to lose the presidential election to Donald Trump.
Biden's cognitive decline was previously mentioned in Special Counsel Robert Hur's investigation of Biden's handling of classified documents, which ended without charges in February. Hur said he could not convince a jury to convict an "elderly man with a poor memory," a description that incensed Democrats, who accused Hur of a political hatchet job.
The situation could not look more different now, with many Democrats blaming Biden for their historic election loss to Trump in November.
Jimmy Carter's doctor is sharing the ex-president's final moments after his death at age 100 - as former presidents and members of the public prepare to pay their respects.
There will be several days of mourning in Georgia and Washington D.C., which will allow members of the public to pay their respects before Carter is finally laid to rest on January 9th.
Carter drew his last breaths at his home in Plains, Georgia after nearly two years in hospice care.
His death on December 29 came "peacefully," Dr. Michael Raines said, with his family at his bedside.
“For the last couple of weeks he had been very fatigued and tired,” he said. “He didn’t have any episodes of that we had to treat. He died very peacefully and I’m glad that his family was at his bedside when he did go.”
Carter served only four years as president, but he lived longer than any president in the nation's history. He was predeceased by his wife of 77 years, Rosalynn, who died last November. Her funeral was one of Carter's last public appearances.
“It was just mostly being 100 years old and finally he just reached the end and he was very peaceful going,” Raines said of Carter's passing.
The funeral services will run from January 4 to January 9 and will include motorcades, public visitations in Atlanta and Washington D.C and a state funeral at Washington National Cathedral.
"The Carter Family invites the public to honor and celebrate the life of former President Carter by paying their respects during either of the public viewings; the funeral procession in Washington; in the downtown area of Plains, Georgia; or along the motorcade routes in Georgia and Washington,” the Carter Center's website states.
Carter's motorcade will stop in front of his boyhood farm and the Georgia State Capitol before he is brought to the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta for a service and public viewing.
President Carter will then be transported to Washington D.C. to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, before a state funeral at Washington National Cathedral attended by ex-presidents, including President-elect Donald Trump.
President Biden, who is now the oldest living president, is expected to give a eulogy. Carter will then be flown back home on a military plane to Georgia, where he will be buried alongside his wife Rosalynn.