By Arjun Singh WASHINGTON—Republicans will have 220 seats in the House of Representatives in the 119th Congress, completing their majority caucus, after the last election to the House with outstanding results was called on Dec. 5. The House Republican Conference declared victory in its quest to retain the majority in 2024’s general elections on Nov ..read more

By Naveen Athrappully A wide range of food products are being pulled from markets nationwide because of concerns about bacterial contamination. Arizona-based SunFed Produce, Baloian Farms of Arizona Co., and Minnesota-based Russ Davis Wholesale are voluntarily recalling fresh American/slicer cucumbers grown by Mexican company Agrotato, said a Dec. 2 update from the U.S. Food and ..read more

By Jackson Richman Senate Democrats reelected Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Dec. 3 as their leader and whip, respectively. Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) got the third-ranked and fourth-ranked positions in Senate Democrat leadership, respectively. Klobuchar will chair her party’s Policy and Communications Committee, while Booker will lead ..read more

By Naziya Alvi Rahman Brisbane is the most-visited domestic destination in Australia due to its popularity as a stepping stone to other holiday hotspots. Bus company, Greyhound Australia, released its Top 10 Destinations of 2024 report saying 100,000 passengers were set to disembark in the Queensland capital by the end of the year. The report ..read more

By Jack Phillips The district attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, was ordered by a judge to turn over communications she may have had with federal special counsel Jack Smith and the House Jan. 6 subcommittee. A March lawsuit filed by conservative-leaning Judicial Watch against District Attorney Fani Willis, an elected Democrat, in the Fulton County ..read more

By Bill Pan Two Democratic senators are urging the Biden administration to try to limit President-elect Donald Trump’s ability to deploy military forces inside the United States after he takes office. Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), both members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, sent a letter dated Nov. 26 to President ..read more

By John Haughey Advances in deep directional drilling fostered by hydraulic fracturing—or fracking—for natural gas are increasingly being deployed to tap into and develop geothermal energy encased below the Earth’s surface. According to the United States Department of Energy (DOE), geothermal energy generates less than a half-percent of the nation’s utility-scale electricity with the present ..read more

By Zachary Stieber President Joe Biden’s claims about his son being selectively prosecuted were unfounded, special counsel David Weiss’s office said in new filings on Dec. 2. “There has never been any evidence of vindictive or selective prosecution in this case,” Weiss and other federal prosecutors told a federal judge in Delaware. In another filing ..read more

By Naveen Athrappully Elon Musk filed a lawsuit against Microsoft-backed OpenAI to prevent the nonprofit entity transitioning to a for-profit enterprise, claiming this contradicts his agreement with the company. OpenAI was co-founded by Musk, along with current CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman. In 2015, Altman approached Musk with plans to form an artificial ..read more

By Naveen Athrappully New York-based Handsome Brook Farms is pulling batches of eggs from the market following concerns the items could be contaminated with the salmonella bacteria. The recall is applicable to “10,800 retail units of the Organic Pasture Raised 24-Count Eggs sold under the Kirkland Signature brand name,” said a Nov. 27 recall announcement ..read more