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House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul was “briefly detained” by law enforcement officers who thought he was drunk after he mixed Ambien and alcohol before a flight. The Texas Republican said he took the sleep medication with an alcoholic beverage before a flight to Texas, but missed the plane, leaving him in a “disoriented” state at Dulles International Airport. …

She’s no longer the teacher’s’ pet. The head of the Big Apple’s most powerful teachers’ union flunked Gov. Kathy Hochul and “tone deaf” Democrats Thursday for socking working class New Yorkers with a $9 congestion toll — a week after the election where the party took a drubbing. “It’s not what I expected to see Democrats doing a week after the …

Israel’s Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer met with President-elect Trump during a visit to his Florida estate on Sunday, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday. Sunday’s discussions at Mar-a-Lago centered on an Israeli ceasefire in Lebanon that involves Western and Russian cooperation, according to the Post. Dermer secretly visited Russia last week for follow-up discussions, after Russian officials visited Israel on Oct. 27 to discuss the …

New York Times columnist Ezra Klein slammed Democrats over their stubborn denials that US cities are plagued with rising crime, out-of-control migration, and skyrocketing prices, saying they need to “shut the f–k up.” In Donald Trump’s blowout election victory last week, the president-elect won a 6.5% gain in the most populous urban counties across the country, which outpaced the 3.3% …

LAS VEGAS — Vice President Kamala Harris didn’t have a prayer with the nation’s Christians, a new survey reveals. The Democrat scored a decisive victory only among those who said they hold “no religious faith,” getting 64% of their votes, pollster George Barna of Arizona Christian University’s Cultural Research Center said Wednesday. The crisis of faith in the Harris-Walz ticket …

Geraldo Rivera said Wednesday that news of Rep. Matt Gaetz’s attorney general nomination by President-elect Donald Trump left him feeling physically ill. “When I heard that Matt Gaetz was picked to be attorney general, I threw up in my mouth,” Rivera, 81, told NewsNation’s “On Balance with Leland Vittert” Wednesday. “I think it is a horrible, creepy choice. I have no idea why he …

As many as 20 human skulls were found in a New Mexico home after the man who lived there tossed bones out of a car while hitching a ride, according to police. Police made the grisly discovery earlier this month at a residence in Jal “associated with rumors of human remains,” according to the Lea County Sheriff’s Office, which said …

Democratic Sen. John Fetterman described GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz’s attorney general nomination as a “god-tier” level of trolling by President-elect Donald Trump to “own the libs in perpetuity.” Trump, 78, selected Gaetz (R-Fla.) to lead the US Department of Justice on Wednesday, in a move that stunned lawmakers in his own party. When asked about the eyebrow-raising pick, Fetterman (D-Pa.) …

Former national security adviser John Bolton ripped the nomination of Rep. Matt Gaetz as attorney general as the worst “in American history” — while ex-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is adamant that “everybody knows” Gaetz “won’t get confirmed.” “Well, it must be the worst nomination for a Cabinet position in American history,” Bolton, a key adviser to President-elect Donald Trump during his …

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio Senate on Wednesday approved a ban on transgender students using bathrooms that fit their gender identities and sent the measure to Republican Gov. Mike DeWine. The Republican-backed bill applies to public K-12 schools and institutions of higher education. It requires the schools to designate separate bathrooms, locker rooms and overnight accommodations “for the exclusive use” …