A federal grand jury has returned an indictment for the man suspected of starting one of the recent wildfires in Spokane, Washington, the Department of Justice announced on Friday. Aaron Farinacci, 37, faces an arson charge related to the Old Trails fire, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Washington. More […]
The Nashville airport will be renamed in honor of late music icon Dolly Parton after the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority unanimously approved the change on Friday. The airport authority voted 6-0 to rename the airport, but said the final name will be determined at a later date. The vote comes after Parton’s death on Aug. […]
Top Trump administration officials are exploring separate ideas for funding President Donald Trump‘s proposed $5,000 dividends for Americans. A senior official told the Washington Examiner that the White House was engaging with Congress not just on how to fund the checks, but also on potential vehicles to make good on the president’s promise. Rep. Riley Moore (R-WV), a […]
California officials were grilled by a federal appeals court panel on Friday over their fight against the Trump administration for federal funding that the administration withheld due to a dispute over the expiration date of commercial driver’s license standards for noncitizens. A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia […]
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), who has mounted two bids for Senate Republican leader, says he is undecided on whether to support Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) if he runs for another term leading his conference. “We’re going to have a race again in November,” Scott said on the Charlie Kirk Show on Friday. “I don’t […]
Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE), who is retiring at the end of his fifth term in Congress, is throwing his hat into the ring of potential Republican presidential candidates for the 2028 election cycle. In an interview to be released in full on Friday, the congressman entertained the idea of running for president himself while leaving […]
The Justice Department confirmed the removal of an Afghan woman from the United States in the first completed case before a specialized terrorism court that Congress created 30 years ago but had never been used. Nazira Haji Zada, 47, conceded through her lawyers that she qualified as an “alien terrorist” and waived her right to […]
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) are under fire from Republicans after the two socialists were captured on video apparently sharing a laugh as the names of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack were being read off. Mamdani attended the 25th anniversary ceremony in New York City on […]
Twenty-five years ago, the 9/11 terrorist attacks changed the trajectory of the life of an Arizona college student. Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ) is a three-term congressman who chose, in the first few days after the horrific attack, to leave the classroom and travel thousands of miles away to take the fight to al Qaeda. “A […]
Washington Examiner executive editor Bob Cusack said the midterm convention speeches from President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance underscore Vance’s ambitions for the GOP’s future. “While Trump gave the red meat to the convention, Vance was demonizing Democrats and also, I think, making a little bit of a play for independents,” Cusack said […]
