A bipartisan effort to establish a Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum on the National Mall is at risk of becoming the next casualty of America’s culture war over a partisan clash on the definition of a woman. The legislation, led by Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), gained the most momentum it’s seen in over four years […]
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s party won a landslide election last month with a platform that included transforming the Japanese Self-Defense Force into a formal military. But meddling with the constitution could give opposition parties an unwelcome opportunity to demand their own adjustments. A senior Japanese official told the Washington Examiner that moving to change Article […]
Iran launched two missiles at the United Kingdom‘s base in Diego Garcia, missing but exposing greater missile capabilities than previously known. After the U.K. announced it would allow the U.S. to use its bases for defensive strikes against Iran, Tehran launched two intermediate-range ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, over 2,000 miles […]
Democratic turnout in the 2026 Senate primary elections is up across the board compared to recent midterm years, while Republicans have largely struggled to attract voters to the polls in each state, except Texas, so far. State Rep. James Talarico swept headlines in early March after beating Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) in Texas’s Democratic Senate […]
President Donald Trump said that responsibility for securing and guarding the Strait of Hormuz would have to lie with the other countries that use it, with the United States only helping. In a Friday post on Truth Social, Trump said the U.S. was “getting very close to meeting our objectives as we consider winding down […]
FBI Director Kash Patel warned that cyber actors linked to Russian intelligence services were scamming Signal users. Earlier this month, the Dutch Military Intelligence and Security Service along with General Intelligence and Security Service warned of a “large-scale global cyber campaign” targeting government officials and journalists, carried out through the attempted hacking of their Signal […]
Iran threatened to strike U.K. bases after London cleared the United States to use them for some strikes. On Friday, the United Kingdom shifted its position on the use of its bases by the U.S. for strikes against Iran, allowing its usage for the targeting of Iranian military assets targeting the Strait of Hormuz. After […]
The Justice Department under President Donald Trump on Friday moved to dismiss charges against two former Louisville police officers accused of falsifying the warrant that led to the 2020 raid in which Breonna Taylor was killed. Federal prosecutors asked a judge to dismiss the case with prejudice against former Detective Joshua Jaynes and former Sgt. […]
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is delaying an expected vote on renewing the government’s spy powers amid opposition from hard-line Republicans who want to see reforms to warrantless surveillance and the potential inclusion of voter integrity measures. Johnson initially announced he would hold a vote next week on a clean 18-month reauthorization of section 702 of […]
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani broke his Ramadan fast with prisoners at the controversial Rikers Island jail complex this week, describing the visit as a moment he will never forget. “People sharing what little they have: breaking bread, offering prayer, making space for one another’s dignity even in the hardest place,” the mayor posted […]
