Senate Confirms Dan Caine as Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff
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Senate Confirms Dan Caine as Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Senate confirmed early Friday Lt. Gen. Dan Caine, the former National Guardsman and fighter pilot, to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. General Caine is replacing another Air Force fighter pilot, Gen. Charles Brown, known as C.Q., whom President Trump…

4 Things to Know About Mike Huckabee, Trump’s Ambassador to Israel
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4 Things to Know About Mike Huckabee, Trump’s Ambassador to Israel

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Mike Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor, Republican presidential contender and Baptist minister, was confirmed as ambassador to Israel by a vote of 53 to 46 on Wednesday, with senators largely divided along party lines. President Trump announced Mr. Huckabee as his nominee for…

Israel’s Supreme Court Considers Netanyahu’s Attempt to Fire Spy Chief
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Israel’s Supreme Court Considers Netanyahu’s Attempt to Fire Spy Chief

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Israel’s highest court began hearing a case on Tuesday over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to replace one of his top intelligence chiefs — a courtroom battle that could open the door to a constitutional crisis. The attempt to fire Ronen Bar, the…

Netanyahu Names New Israel Spy Chief Despite Showdown With Court
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Netanyahu Names New Israel Spy Chief Despite Showdown With Court

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel named a new chief of the domestic intelligence service on Monday, moving his government closer to a showdown with the Supreme Court, which temporarily suspended the dismissal of the current spy chief earlier this month. Mr. Netanyahu’s…

White House Takes Highly Unusual Step of Directly Firing Line Prosecutors
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White House Takes Highly Unusual Step of Directly Firing Line Prosecutors

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Two longtime career prosecutors have been suddenly fired by the White House, in what current and former Justice Department officials called an unusual and alarming exercise of presidential power. In recent days, the prosecutors, in Los Angeles and Memphis, were dismissed abruptly, notified…

Top FDA Vaccine Official Resigns, Citing Kennedy’s ‘Misinformation and Lies’
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Top FDA Vaccine Official Resigns, Citing Kennedy’s ‘Misinformation and Lies’

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, abruptly resigned Friday, saying in a searing letter that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s aggressive stance on vaccines was irresponsible and posed a danger to the public. “It has become clear…

Trump Asks Stefanik to Withdraw Bid to Be U.N. Ambassador
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Trump Asks Stefanik to Withdraw Bid to Be U.N. Ambassador

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump on Thursday said he had asked Representative Elise Stefanik, Republican of New York, to stay in Congress rather than serve as ambassador to the United Nations, amid concern about the minuscule voting margin that Republicans hold in the House. “There are…

Alina Habba Is Trump’s Pick for Interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey
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Alina Habba Is Trump’s Pick for Interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump on Monday said that he was appointing a spokeswoman and former personal lawyer as New Jersey’s interim U.S. attorney, continuing a pattern of placing his former legal representatives in top law enforcement positions. The appointee, Alina Habba, defended Mr. Trump in…

DOGE Staff Marches Into U.S. Institute of Peace and Evicts Its Officials
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DOGE Staff Marches Into U.S. Institute of Peace and Evicts Its Officials

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A simmering dispute between the Department of Government Efficiency and an independent agency dedicated to promoting peace broke into an open standoff involving the police on Monday, as Elon Musk’s government cutters marched into the agency’s headquarters and evicted its officials. The dramatic…