President-Elect Donald Trump's latest selection for his next administration is facing immediate backlash from some within the Senate GOP, as they say his attorney general pick Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., will not get confirmed. "He will never get confirmed," a Republican senator, granted anonymity to speak freely, told Fox News Digital. One Senate Republican source simply said, "Ain’t gonna happen," about the prospect of Gaetz's confirmation. THUNE WINS SECRET BALLOT TO BECOME NEW SENATE GOP...

FBI officials Wednesday are set to announce a significant reward for information leading to the arrest of the man who they suspect attempted to set three ballot boxes on fire in Oregon and Washington a week before the November election. Hundreds of ballots were destroyed in one Clark County precinct but fire suppression equipment in two boxes in Multnomah County largely spared destruction of voters’ ballots. Crime Stoppers of Oregon had previously issued a reward of up to $2,500 late last month...

It all started with an uncertain smile and a nervous laugh at a press conference a grieving young father didn’t even know he was going to be holding. On Friday, Dec. 14, 2012, Robbie Parker’s world imploded when his 6-year-old daughter, Emilie, was among 20 first graders and 6 educators who were killed in one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Inundated with calls from reporters, Parker, a neonatal intensive care unit physician’s...

President-elect Donald Trump has promised to carry out the largest deportation project in American history, using the military and local law enforcement to do it, in a move that could echo the last major effort to remove migrants en masse in the 1950s. Dubbed "Operation Wetback", hundreds of thousands of mostly Mexican undocumented immigrants were forcibly removed or self-deported during President Dwight D. Eisenhower's term. The program's name was derogatory even at the time, referring to...

Donald Trump’s decision to nominate Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) as his attorney general managed to inspire new levels of social media face-palming. Yes, even more than his choice of Fox News host Pete Hegseth to be secretary of defense. Of course, that’s bound to happen when your AG candidate is being investigated by fellow members of Congress because he allegedly “engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, accepted...

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The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said that People's Republic of China (PRC) hackers breached commercial telecommunication service providers in the U.S. The breached entities have been warned, and the agencies are proactively alerting other potential targets of elevated cyber activity. "The U.S. government's continued investigation into the People's Republic of China (PRC) targeting of commercial telecommunications infrastructure has revealed a broad and...

OpenAI could release an “AI agent” tool as soon as January. That’s according to Bloomberg, which reports that OpenAI is close to launching software, code-named “Operator,” that can take direct actions on a person’s computer. OpenAI is said to be planning to initially launch Operator as a research preview through its developer API. Operator would go up against Anthropic’s recently unveiled agent feature, Computer Use, and Google’s rumored consumer-focused agent, among others. It’s unclear...

President-elect Donald Trump nominated former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., for attorney general Wednesday, receiving mixed reactions from senators and representatives over his latest pick in a series of appointments to his Cabinet and staff this week.

Senate Republicans reacted with alarm and dismay to President-elect Donald J. Trump’s decision to nominate Representative Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida, for attorney general, and several said they were skeptical that he would be able to secure enough votes for confirmation. “He’s got his work really cut out for him,” Senator Joni Ernst, Republican of Iowa, said, chuckling as she spoke. Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, raised his eyebrows when reporters informed him of Mr....