From the Center This past weekend, when Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled his country and rebel forces claimed control of that country’s capital, the Washington Post (Lean Left bias) headlines unintentionally admitted what has become increasingly clear: that Donald Trump is not bothering to wait until his official inauguration next month to take over and that Joe Biden is still our nation’s president in name only. That is, admittedly, an exaggeration. Biden still holds control of...

Republican National Committee (RNC) co-chair Lara Trump is stepping down from her party role as she considers replacing Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R), whom her father-in-law, President-elect Trump, picked for secretary of state. “It is something I would seriously consider,” she told the Associated Press in an interview, referring to serving in the Senate.  “If I’m being completely transparent, I don’t know exactly what they would look like. And I certainly...

Russian military personnel are reportedly trapped in Syria, following the ousting of Bashar al-Assad. The deposed Syrian president has fled to Russia, where he received asylum from his long-time ally, according to Russian media. This followed advances across the country by rebels led by Islamist-group Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS), which seized control of the capital, Damascus, in a dramatic and sudden turn in the civil war that started in 2011. Russia was either...

Lara Trump announced Sunday she plans to formally step down as Republican National Committee co-chair at the next RNC meeting. Why it matters: Several Republican senators are pushing for her to fill the U.S. Senate seat set to be vacated by Secretary of State nominee Marco Rubio in Florida, and President-elect Trump's daughter-in-law confirmed Sunday she's seriously considering the move. State of play: Lara Trump wrote on X Sunday evening that...

Social Security beneficiaries could face longer wait times for service next year unless Congress agrees to the White House budget office’s request to increase funding for the Social Security Administration (SSA), the administration that runs the program is warning. House Republicans balked at increasing funding for the Social Security Administration in the continuing resolution passed in September, which forced it to implement a hiring freeze last month. As a result, the agency will soon...

President-elect Donald Trump slammed NBC News host Kristen Welker for her obvious left-wing bias, saying that she hurts herself “badly” by not being neutral. Trump made the remarks at two points during his interview on “Meet The Press” that aired on Sunday. The first moment came when Welker was peppering him with questions related to the Democrat-led January 6 committee in which she repeatedly interrupted him.

President-elect Donald Trump was fact checked over his migration statistics while on Meet The Press this weekend, and it turns out there has been a mix-up over the numbers of migrant murderers entering the U.S. Speaking with Kristen Welker on December 8 Trump said: "So we had 11,000, and 13,000, there are different estimates. 13,099 murderers released into our country in the last three years. "They're walking down the streets. They're walking next to you, and...

President-elect Donald Trump repeated numerous false claims during an interview that aired Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” – including his old lie that the US is the world’s only country with birthright citizenship. Trump reiterated his intention to try to end birthright citizenship, in which, under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, someone born in the US is granted automatic citizenship even if their parents are not citizens. And he asserted, “We’re the only country that has it.”...

The results of a study into whether cancer detection dogs can smell bladder cancer in other dogs’ urine suggests that this could be an effective new way to diagnose the disease in dogs. Source: Dogs look out for one another: Study shows that dogs can smell cancer in other dogs Amazing.

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