Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) appeared to swap politics for deep-sea fishing this week, posting a video of himself reeling in a sailfish alongside former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene after losing Kentucky‘s Republican primary to a candidate backed by President Donald Trump. Massie posted the video on X Wednesday with the caption “America First Pacific Summit […]
The Treasury Department on Wednesday reimposed sanctions against Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur on Palestinian territories, just one week after removing her from a federal sanctions list. The Office of Foreign Asset Control added Albanese to its specially designated nationals list under sanctions tied to the International Criminal Court, according to a Treasury notice […]
The United States military on Wednesday conducted new strikes on an Iranian military site that officials said posed a threat to American forces and commercial maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, Reuters reports. The reports of new strikes come as the U.S. and Iran inch forward with a peace deal that seeks to end […]
A Staten Island man was sentenced on Wednesday to 10 years in federal prison for participating in a plot to kill a journalist and prominent critic of Iran‘s government in a case prosecutors say was directed by operatives tied to Tehran. Jonathan Loadholt, 37, pleaded guilty earlier this year to conspiracy to commit stalking and […]
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) threw his support behind Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Wednesday, bringing Senate leadership one step closer to coalescing around a Republican they spent months trying to defeat. Thune endorsed Paxton on the heels of his victory against Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), telling conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt that […]
Former first lady Jill Biden said she was “frightened” that her husband was experiencing a stroke during his performance in the 2024 presidential debate against President Donald Trump. In an interview with CBS News, Jill Biden recalled her reaction to seeing former President Joe Biden stumble over his words, appearing frail and unstable. “I was […]
Washington Examiner Editorial Director Hugo Gurdon said that socialism doesn’t work, arguing people try to make it sound “friendly” by adding “democratic” before it. “The truth is the word ‘democratic’ is like a spoonful of sugar to make the medicine of socialism go down,” Gurdon said on Fox News’s The Will Cain Show Wednesday. “The […]
Washington Examiner congressional reporter Lauren Green said Republicans will “rally” around Attorney General Ken Paxton in the Texas Senate race, despite those within the party campaigning against him in the runoff election with four-term Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX). “These Republicans are going to rally behind Ken Paxton because they don’t want someone like James Talarico […]
Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) sent a letter to Trump administration officials on Wednesday, in which he raised concerns about how President Donald Trump’s planned triumphal arch would affect traffic flow into the nation’s capital. The design plans for the 250-foot arch to be located on Columbia Island at Memorial Circle, bordering the Virginia side of […]
Gov. Jared Polis (D-CO) silently protested Colorado Democrats’ decision to censure him over his decision to commute the sentence of a prominent 2020 election denier by showing up to an internal party video call with his mouth taped. An image of the term-limited Democratic governor with black tape on his mouth was shared on social […]
