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President-elect Donald Trump's choice to head the Drug Enforcement Administration, Chad Chronister, announced on Tuesday that he will not be running for the position. In an apost on Xon Tuesday night, Chronister, the sheriff of Hillsborough County, Florida, declared his intention to decline the candidacy. "To have been nominated by President-Elect@realDonaldTrumpto serve as Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration is the honor of a lifetime," Chronister stated. "Over the past several days, as the gravity of this very important responsibility set in, I ve concluded that I must respectfully withdraw from consideration." In order to serve the residents of Hillsborough County, Chronister mentioned the necessity for further work "and a lot of initiatives I am committed to fulfilling...

Washington Pete Hegseth, president-elect Donald Trump's choice to head the Defense Department, is in jeopardy as Senate Republicans become more alarmed over allegations of his drinking and mistreatment of women. According to three Republican sources with direct knowledge of Hegseth's nomination process, NBC News reports that up to six Senate Republicans, if not more, are currently uncomfortable with the former Fox News anchor's ambition to head the Pentagon as fresh information about his background keeps coming to light. Hegseth can only afford to lose three GOP votes, assuming all Democrats vote against him, because Republicans will have a tiny Senate majority in the upcoming Congress. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, who is on the Armed Services Committee, stated that she would question the fo...

A grandma in Pennsylvania appeared to have fallen into a sinkhole that was at least 30 feet deep while looking for her cat, prompting a search and rescue operation on Tuesday. According to officials at a news conference, 64-year-old Elizabeth Pollard has not been heard from since Monday, when she is thought to have fallen into the manhole-sized hole in Unity Township, about 40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. According to Pleasant Valley Volunteer Fire Company Chief John Bacha, after lowering rover and pole cameras into the disused coal mine, investigators noticed what seemed to be a shoe but heard no noises. Bacha noted the location of the sinkhole and remarked, "It's a modern shoe, not something you'd find in a coal mine in Marguerite in 1940." Authorities are quite certain that we are now...

Washington This week, a floor vote is being forced by Rep. Sean Casten, D-Ill., to mandate that the House Ethics Committee publish a report on its multi-year investigation of former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla. A resolution that would compel the bipartisan ethics panel to take action was introduced by Casten on Tuesday. The resolution must be presented to the floor for a vote within two legislative days due to its privileged status. On November 13, President-elect Donald Trump appointed his close associate Gaetz as his attorney general. That day, Gaetz also resigned from Congress. However, a little over a week later, Gaetzwith pulled out of consideration due to resistance from Republican senators, primarily because of the ethics investigation into claims of sexual misconduct and illegal drug ...

The annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony at Rockefeller Center in New York City seems to make the holiday season more authentic. The lighting event and associated television special, Christmas in Rockefeller Center, will be hosted by Kelly Clarkson, the musician and host of a chat show that was recorded at the venue. More than 20 years have passed since Clarkson's first performance at the ceremony, and last year she celebrated the milestone by hosting. She remarked on her show last month, "I was all of a sudden in a Charlie Brown movie, and it was magical," making reference to her hosting role from the previous year. Last year, after hosting her show in Universal Studios in Universal City, California, Clarkson relocated to New York City. She expressed her excitement about hosting the tr...

Attorneys forCiting President Joe Biden's words when he declared he had pardoned his son, Donald Trump urged the judge who oversaw his conviction for falsifying company records to drop the charge against the president-elect. "Yesterday, in issuing a10-year pardon to Hunter Bidenthat covers any and all crimes whether charged or uncharged, President Biden asserted that his son was 'selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted,' and 'treated differently,'" the document, which was released on Tuesday, said. According to President Biden, this process has been tainted by raw politics, which has resulted in a miscarriage of justice. The petition went on to say that these remarks amounted to an unusual condemnation of President Biden's own DOJ and that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has partici...

Residents in far northern Russia were treated to a natural light show Tuesday night as a small asteroid rushed toward Earth before burning out above the region, according to officials. The European Space Agency said earlier Tuesday that the flying space rock, which was less than 70 centimeters (27.5 inches) broad, had "been spotted on a collision course with" Earth and that the impact would be "harmless." Residents of the Russian republic of Yakutia reported seeing a "nice fireball in the sky over northern Siberia" at 5:15 p.m. CET (11:15 a.m. ET), according to ESA. NASA described the incident as a "harmless fireball" and gave credit to the Bok telescope at the University of Arizona for being the first to detect its approach. The asteroid was named C0WEPC5, and no early reports of damage o...

Ten current and former Fox News employees told NBC News that Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's choice for defense secretary, drank in ways that worried his coworkers. During Hegseth's tenure as a co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend, which started in 2017, two of those individuals said that they smelled alcohol on him before he went on air more than a dozen times. Those two individuals, along with an additional one, claimed that he was on TV during his stay there after they overheard him discussing his hangover when he was getting dressed or on set. According to one of the individuals, they heard him complain about being hungover this fall and even smelled alcohol on him as recently as last month. None of the people NBC News spoke with could remember a time when Hegseth skipped ...

According to the Phoenix Police Department, an 8-year-old boy died after a statue fell on him outside the opulent Arizona Biltmore hotel. Five days after the youngster was hospitalized after being hit in the head by the statue, his death was declared on Monday. His identity was kept a secret. Police said they ruled out foul play, but they were still investigating Tuesday how the statue came apart and how the youngster was struck by it. The 39-acre resort, which spans the Phoenix Mountain Preserve and features views of mountain ranges and palm palms, includes the Biltmore hotel, which was created by architect Frank Lloyd Wright. One of the 19 "solemn sprites" statues on the property, which are claimed to represent legendary characters that symbolize the natural environment, was the statue t...

Attorneys forCiting President Joe Biden's words when he declared he had pardoned his son, Donald Trump urged the judge who oversaw his conviction for falsifying company records to drop the charge against the president-elect. "Yesterday, in issuing a10-year pardon to Hunter Bidenthat covers any and all crimes whether charged or uncharged, President Biden asserted that his son was 'selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted,' and 'treated differently,'" the document, which was released on Tuesday, said. According to President Biden, this process has been tainted by raw politics, which has resulted in a miscarriage of justice. The petition went on to say that these remarks amounted to an unusual condemnation of President Biden's own DOJ and that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has partici...