US skater Rippon wants Pence spat to take backseat to games

Adam Rippon doesn't want his monthlong dispute with Mike Pence over the vice president's record on gay rights to overshadow his long-awaited Olympic performance. One of two openly gay U.S. athletes at the Pyeongchang Games, Rippon criticized the White House last month for choosing Pence to lead its official delegation for Friday's opening ceremony.

Winter Olympics: Team USA pays taxes on medals, cash winnings

Stimson Center Chairman Lincoln Bloomfield on President Trump and South Korea's agreement not to conduct any military exercises during the Olympics. As top athletes gear up for the Opening Ceremony of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics in South Korea on Friday, the Internal Revenue Service is waiting at the finish line, ready to tax Team USA's winners.

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Congress meets to try to end government shutdown as immigration remains a focus

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Cybersecurity firm: US Senate in Russian hackers’ crosshairs

The same Russian government-aligned hackers who penetrated the Democratic Party have spent the past few months laying the groundwork for an espionage campaign against the U.S. Senate, a cybersecurity firm said Friday. The revelation suggests the group often nicknamed Fancy Bear, whose hacking campaign scrambled the 2016 U.S. electoral contest, is still busy trying to gather the emails of America's political elite.

Today In History, Jan. 6: Donald Trump

One year ago: Congress certified Donald Trump's presidential victory over the objections of a handful of House Democrats, with Vice President Joe Biden pronouncing, "It is over." In 1919, the 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, died in Oyster Bay, New York, at age 60. On Jan. 6, 1968, a surgical team at Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, California, led by Dr. Norman Shumway performed the first U.S. adult heart transplant, placing the heart of a 43-year-old man in a 54-year-old patient .

President Trump’s Call With ROK President Moon Jae-In Is Optimistic on the Olympic Front

Recently, rising tensions with North Korea have led to speculation that the United States might find itself having to boycott the upcoming Winter Olympics, set to begin in Pyeongchang next month. As RedState reported earlier this week, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham tweeted that if North Korea attended the games, the US would not.

Clinton mulls role in 2018 midterms

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton Grassley blasts Democrats over unwillingness to probe Clinton GOP lawmakers cite new allegations of political bias in FBI Top intel Dem: Trump Jr. refused to answer questions about Trump Tower discussions with father MORE has all but avoided appearing at campaign events since her stunning 2016 loss, but some Democrats believe she would be a welcome voice in the 2018 midterms. Despite polling that shows Clinton with low favorability ratings, they say the former secretary of State could help Democratic candidates in congressional districts she won last year.

Feud with Trump boosts Gillibrand

Kirsten Elizabeth Gillibrand Democrats turn on Al Franken Report: Franken will resign Thursday Minnesota's largest newspaper calls on Franken to resign MORE Donald John Trump House Democrat slams Donald Trump Jr. for 'serious case of amnesia' after testimony Skier Lindsey Vonn: I don't want to represent Trump at Olympics Poll: 4 in 10 Republicans think senior Trump advisers had improper dealings with Russia MORE triggered a full-fledged feud with the possible 2020 contender in a suggestive tweet that said she "would do anything" in return for money. Trump lashed out a day after Gillibrand said he should resign over allegations of sexual misconduct from more than a dozen women.

Schumer walks tightrope on shutdown, immigration fights

Donald John Trump House Democrat slams Donald Trump Jr. for 'serious case of amnesia' after testimony Skier Lindsey Vonn: I don't want to represent Trump at Olympics Poll: 4 in 10 Republicans think senior Trump advisers had improper dealings with Russia MORE 's major legislative drives on ObamaCare and tax reform, but he faces a more divided group of Democrats when it comes to protecting young immigrants who could face deportation next year. Democrats generally back a legislative fix that would allow so-called Dreamers brought to the United States illegally as children to remain in the country.

When Roy Moore Wore Tights: His Inner Olga Korbut

In the days before his leather-and-cowboy-hat look, Roy Moore was a West Point gymnast in the model of an earlier Roy Moore, "the father of American gymnastics." The most famous Roy Moore in history, through at least the mid-twentieth century, was likely a New Yorker named Roy E. Moore, often referred to as "the father of American gymnastics."

Sochi investigator says Russian denials risk tougher penalty

Russian sports officials risk talking themselves into a tougher punishment for the country's Olympic team, according to the investigator who detailed an orchestrated doping program. Richard McLaren's work verifying allegations of systematic cheating by Russia at the 2014 Sochi Games has been vindicated this month by an International Olympic Committee panel that so far has found 22 winter sports athletes guilty.

FIFA bans three former officials for life for taking bribes

Three soccer officials who pleaded guilty in American courts to accepting bribes were banned for life by the FIFA ethics committee on Tuesday. They include former FIFA audit committee member Richard Lai of Guam, who testified in federal court that the source of his bribe money was Olympic powerbroker Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah of Kuwait.