The World Health Organization said on Saturday it still cannot independently confirm what caused the recent death of a 28-year-old Russian woman who worked at a lab studying plague and other diseases. Darya Shipilova’s Oct. 2 death prompted the quarantine and medical observation of nearly 200 Russian citizens two days after she was hospitalized while […]
The White House has chosen Katie Bailey as the new head of White House Office of Legislative Affairs, less than a month away from the midterm elections and with control of Congress hanging in the balance. President Donald Trump is said to have offered Bailey the promotion to director of the Office of Legislative Affairs […]
One Philadelphia police officer is dead and another is in stable condition after a gunman ambushed the two law enforcement officers early on Saturday morning, local officials said. 40-year-old Shane Seiber succumbed to his injuries on Saturday morning after he and his partner received a call around 1 a.m. about a man armed with a […]
President Donald Trump on Saturday said he will make the final decision on whether to livestream the execution of the Fort Hood mass shooter Nidal Malik Hasan. The president’s latest comments to reporters follow several different statements he has made on the controversy in the past two days, including a comment Friday in which he […]
President Donald Trump is continuing his tour of red states ahead of the midterm elections, this time holding a rally in Clarksville, Tennessee. The president will be joined by Sens. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), who is running for governor of the Volunteer State. Other GOP congressional candidates will also take part in […]
Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha said House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) has a tough battle to fight against rising socialist members of the Democratic Party, which could threaten his position. Concha reacted to a clip of House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday, who had advice for Jeffries. “Hakeem is going to have a real […]
President Donald Trump on Saturday called for new leadership in Ukraine, marking a dramatic shift in the United States’s relationship with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Trump has long pushed Russia and Ukraine to make a deal ending the war between the countries, which has now stretched over four-and-a-half years. Over the weekend, he complained to […]
Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York argued that the debate over publicly livestreaming Nidal Hasan’s execution is clouding support for carrying out his death sentence. “I think a lot of Trump supporters were very, very happy when they heard that the Pentagon planned to carry out the execution of Nidal Hasan, who killed so […]
LA VILLA DE LOS SANTOS, Panama (AP) — Unnerved residents of rural Panama awoke Saturday on the streets as the aftershocks of two powerful earthquakes that roiled the country shook their communities for hours. The 7.7- and 6.6-magnitude earthquakes toppled buildings near the epicenter and prompted evacuations across the Central American country. Seismologists at the […]
Christa Pike has been released from the hospital and is back in prison after surviving an execution attempt in Tennessee that left her unconscious and on a ventilator. Pike is on death row for the premeditated torture and murder of a college classmate in 1995. The prisoner was set to be executed on Sept. 30, […]
