People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals deleted a post calling on a local restaurant in Washington, D.C., to cancel its foie gras dinner planned for Thursday night in light of a fatal shooting earlier in the day. The animal advocacy organization tied Thursday morning’s shooting in the Logan Circle neighborhood to Mallard’s foie gras-themed […]
A shooting in Washington, D.C.’s Logan Circle neighborhood Thursday morning left one person dead and four others wounded after a gunman shot someone inside a fitness center before barricading himself in a nearby apartment, where he later died after shooting himself. The suspected shooter was identified as Matt Lambert, according to NBC News4. D.C. police […]
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is in the hot seat following reports about his actions involving the American chip giant Nvidia. Lutnick has surpassed both War Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio as the prediction markets’ top pick for the next Cabinet Secretary to depart the Trump administration. On Kalshi Thursday, Lutnick’s chances […]
Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York highlighted division over whether to escalate military action against Iran or pursue a diplomatic solution. “There is a debate between the ‘finish it off’ crowd, who wants more major combat operations for some period of time to finish the conflict, and the ‘let the sanctions, let the blockade […]
The 2013 murder of 8-year-old Gabriel Fernandez shocked California, exposing a horrifying pattern of child abuse and a succession of failures by the agencies entrusted with protecting him. Despite repeated warnings and visits from social workers, Gabriel endured months of abuse before his death on May 22, 2013, becoming the victim of one of the […]
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) said Thursday he is not thinking about running for the presidency again in 2028, at least not so soon after the midterm elections. “I think it’s too soon to tell in terms of, like, you know, who’s going to run,” the outgoing governor said on Fox News’s The Faulkner Focus. “I […]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said Thursday that he backs the return of proxy voting for lawmakers who are expectant mothers and new parents. “I certainly will continue to strongly support — and I’m thankful for the leadership of [Reps.] Brittany Pettersen and Sara Jacobs and other members of the House Democratic Caucus in […]
Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha said Iranian plots against the United States have become unprecedented, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent being relocated for his safety. “Well, we took out two levels of Iranian leadership at the beginning of this war, … so you know they would love nothing more than to take out a member […]
SpaceX on Thursday denied Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s claim that Starshield systems are again being throttled in his country, just weeks after Kyiv said similar issues had been resolved. In October, Kyiv reported the first round of restrictions on Starlink and Starshield, SpaceX’s military version of Starlink that Ukraine uses to boost drone-strike missions and […]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) on Thursday did not rule out forcing a government shutdown to see the end of the Iran war. Jeffries was asked during a press conference if he would consider attaching a provision to end the Iran war as a rider to an appropriations bill as Congress heads toward a […]
