In November 2024, the day after President-elect Donald Trump nominated former U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz to oversee the Department of Justice as U.S. attorney general, an account on X posted an apparent screen capture of a post attributed to Gaetz. Under one interpretation, that post seemed to say he'd "almost never" broken a rule according to which it was appropriate for a man to date a person no younger than half his age, minus seven years (in his case, teenagers)

Steve Bannon’s trial over his alleged involvement in a scheme to pocket donations from Trump supporters who thought they were funding the construction of a border wall will be postponed to February 25, a New York judge ruled on Monday. The trial was originally set to start December 9. Bannon faces charges in New York related to the “We Build the Wall” campaign, which allegedly scammed donors during president-elect Donald Trump’s first term. The former White House adviser has pleaded not...

The Republican Party blasted Democrats on Monday for their refusal to concede the U.S. Senate race in Pennsylvania, taking aim at three-term incumbent Democratic Sen. Bob Casey for moving ahead with a costly recount effort, one they argue is a "blatant" violation of state law. The recount in the state comes after The Associated Press declared the race for Republican candidate David McCormick, who narrowly edged out Casey, a Democrat. McCormick's unofficial margin of victory stands at...

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro has urged county election boards to respect a decision by the state Supreme Court preventing them from counting ballots that are either undated or incorrectly dated in the state's Senate race. Speaking on Monday following the ruling, Shapiro said: "Any insinuation that our laws can be ignored or do not matter is irresponsible and does damage to faith in our electoral process. The rule of law matters in Pennsylvania." The...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Monday that election officials must abide by an earlier decision and stop counting mail-in ballots that were invalidated because of an incorrect date on the outer envelope — a major victory for Republican Senate candidate David McCormick, who holds a narrow lead over Democratic Sen. Bob Casey ahead of a statewide recount.

The Pentagon failed its seventh consecutive audit on Friday as the agency was unable to fully account for its massive $824 billion budget, though officials were confident the Department of Defense "has turned a corner" in understanding its budgetary challenges going forward. The audits resulted in a disclaimer of opinion, which means auditors were provided with insufficient information to form an accurate opinion of the accounts. Of the Department of Defense’s (DoD) 28...

The Pentagon has failed its annual financial audit for the seventh year in a row. This means the Department of Defense (DOD) has failed every single audit it has been subjected to, but officials hope to have things under control by the time audit No. 11 rolls around. The DOD announced the results on Friday. "Each year teams of independent public accountants audit the department's $4.1 trillion in assets and $4.3 trillion in liabilities," which are then audited by the DOD Office of...

The US Defense Department failed for the seventh straight year to score a clean financial audit, highlighting the challenge of tracking the finances of a sprawling organization that has some $3.8 trillion in assets and $4 trillion in liabilities. Auditors overseen by the Pentagon Inspector General once again declared the department’s finances were too messy to offer an opinion on whether its books were in order. But the Pentagon said it at least has a better grasp of the problem.

Announcing version 10.1 of the AllSides Media Bias Chart! We just released version 10 of the bias chart last month, ahead of the Nov. 2024 election, but our bias reviews are constantly ongoing. We made changes to the Associated Press and The Guardian's bias ratings that are now reflected in version 10.1: both were moved from the Lean Left bias category to Left, following extensive review by Americans and a politically balanced, expert panel. In addition, we added Upward News (Lean...