FEBRUARY 21, 2025
President George H.W. Bush meets with Defense Secretary Dick Cheney among others while seated at the C&O desk (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration)
Donald Trump has temporarily removed the iconic Resolute Desk used by his Democratic predecessors Joe Biden and Barack Obama from the Oval Office and replaced it with the C&O desk.
Crafted from the once-abandoned British...
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Former chief of the defence staff General Sir Nick Carter, Donald Trump.
The UK’s former chief of defence staff slammed Donald Trump last night, saying it’s clear he “needs to be educated” on history.
Speaking on BBC Question Time, General Sir Nick Carter – who was Britain’s highest ranking military officer from 2018 to 2021 – recalled how the...
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with Vladimir Putin, Russia's President, during a news conference in Helsinki, Finland, on Monday, July 16, 2018. - Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images
A former Soviet intelligence officer has claimed Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987 and given the codename “Krasnov.”
The bombshell allegation was made by Alnur Mussayev, a former...
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, joined by his son X Musk, stands next to U.S. President Donald Trump as he speaks during an executive order signing in the Oval Office at the White House on February 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images
In the first month of President Donald Trump's second term, the newly established...
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
The Senate on Thursday narrowly voted to confirm Kash Patel as the FBI’s ninth director, installing a close ally of President Donald Trump and a staunch critic of the bureau to lead the country’s premier law enforcement agency.
Patel was approved 51-49, a remarkably tight margin for a position that historically has seen nominees win overwhelming bipartisan support....
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Daniel Craig as James Bond in "No Time To Die."
Jeff Bezos's Amazon MGM Studios, the tech giant's film unit, plans to take "creative control" of the James Bond series under a new deal with the franchise's longtime producers, Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli.
The deal will result in a "new joint venture to house the James Bond...
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has expressed support for Volodymyr Zelensky as a "democratically elected leader" after Donald Trump branded the Ukrainian president a "dictator".
Sir Keir spoke to Zelensky on the phone on Wednesday evening and said it was "perfectly reasonable" for Ukraine to "suspend elections during war time as the UK did during World War II",...
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
The last in a long train of storms will bring snow and ice to the Mid-Atlantic and Carolinas on Wednesday.
While Washington will be near the northern edge of the storm starting late in the morning — with a dusting to a half-inch of snow possible in the District and areas to the south by the evening —...
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
Pete Hegseth - Trump Administration Defense Secretary. - Kent Nishimura for TWP
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered senior leaders at the Pentagon and throughout the U.S. military to develop plans for cutting 8 percent from the defense budget in each of the next five years, according to a memo obtained by The Washington Post and officials familiar...
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
The White House says Elon Musk is not leading the Department of Government Efficiency. - Andrew Harnik/Getty Images
A recent White House court filing says Elon Musk lacks any "actual or formal authority."
Musk isn't technically DOGE's leader, and his job title is "unlisted," as BI previously reported.
A recent email sent to the newly rebranded DOGE...
