One of the nation’s leading military officials said the Trump administration is not deploying soldiers to monitor midterm elections in November. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine, the country’s highest-ranking military officer, responded to Sen. Elissa Slotkin’s (D-MI) request that he outline the administration’s stance on deploying military members to polling sites. […]
Michigan Senate Democratic nominee Abdul el Sayed on Monday again defended Hasan Piker after publicly distancing himself from the Twitch streamer in the wake of concerns that he is antisemitic. El Sayed campaigned with Hasan Piker multiple times before clinching his party’s nomination in the state’s Aug. 4 primary. As he took increasing flak from […]
Authorities on Monday afternoon shot a woman near Times Square after she reportedly stabbed several people. The New York City Police Department told the Washington Examiner there was an officer-involved shooting at West 42nd Street and Seventh Avenue just before 4:30. There is an active investigation into the incident, a spokesperson said. The woman was […]
President Donald Trump pressed Apple to update its maps function with his new name for New York’s Lake Ontario, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said Monday. During an interview with Fox Business’s Mornings With Maria, Burgum said Trump reached out to Apple directly to request the update after the president signed an executive order renaming Lake […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) affirmed he is standing behind Rep. Max Miller’s (R-OH) reelection campaign despite allegations of domestic violence and child abuse. When asked Monday if he supported Miller, Johnson said “yes,” and that Miller has been a “great member of Congress.” “He has some issues in his personal life he’s working through,” […]
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) is one of the growing number of battleground Republican candidates who have decided against attending next week’s inaugural Republican midterm convention in Dallas before November’s elections. “She won’t be at the convention,” a source familiar with the situation told the Washington Examiner. “It’s long been her practice not to attend conventions […]
President Donald Trump reposted a claim Monday that there have been no documented cases of an unvaccinated Amish child being diagnosed with autism, adding to skepticism about public health officials’ claims regarding the measles outbreak in Pennsylvania. The president’s post on Truth Social consists of a graphic that contends there is not an “explicitly documented” […]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) defended his private meeting with Jared Kushner, the son-in-law and top outside adviser of President Donald Trump. Jeffries, who received significant progressive backlash over the meeting, told reporters Monday that Kushner had requested the meeting and that the pair’s discussion largely focused on the affordability crisis and opportunities to […]
The Federal Trade Commission and a bipartisan coalition of 22 states sued Amazon on Monday for allegedly misleading advertisers over the past seven years by imposing “hidden surcharges.” The complaint, filed in the Western District of Washington, where the online retailer’s main headquarters is based, alleges Amazon secretly inflated the prices that roughly 1.2 million […]
A federal judge ordered the man accused of targeting and shooting National Guard troops in downtown Washington, D.C., to be force-fed after he was rushed to the hospital in July after starving himself. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta, an Obama appointee, over the weekend authorized “nonconsensual nutrition and medical treatment” for Rahmanullah Lakanwal, which allows medical staff to […]
