Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino defended law enforcement agents on Sunday after an agent shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretty in Minneapolis on Saturday. The agent shot Pretti on Saturday after the Department of Homeland Security said Pretti approached agents armed with a handgun, though video reviewed by the Washington Examiner shows Pretti holding his […]
Washington, D.C.’s delegate to Congress, Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), ended her reelection campaign on Sunday. The development was revealed in a Federal Election Commission filing, which included descriptions of her campaign’s finances. Norton, 88, ended her campaign after heavy scrutiny surrounding her age, health, and mental acuity. Norton had previously weathered the reckoning around elderly members of […]
Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) said Saturday he was assaulted by an individual after being threatened with deportation. Police in Park City, Utah, said Christian Joel Young, 28, snuck into a private event at the Sundance Film Festival, where witnesses report that he approached Frost and a friend. Authorities say Young allegedly said, “We are going […]
The American Civil Liberties Union requested a reinstatement of constraints on federal officers’ tactics against protesters in Minnesota after federal officers in Minneapolis fatally shot a 37-year-old man. U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez agreed to impose constraints earlier this month, but the move was temporarily lifted by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th […]
European leaders are beginning to believe their continent is the last advocate for a world that isn’t governed with a sense of might-makes-right. Between the Russian invasion of Ukraine, U.S. demands for sovereignty over Greenland, and other geopolitical upheavals to global norms, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is lamenting it all as a […]
February 2026 Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $994, will be issued to recipients in five days. SSI payments are typically issued on the first day of a month. However, February’s payment will go out on Jan. 30. When the first of a month falls on a weekend or holiday, SSI payments are issued […]
Vulnerable members of Congress who rely on the gambling industry to fund their campaigns are pushing legislation that the industry wants passed, a Washington Examiner review of campaign finance filings has found. Reps. Susie Lee (D), Steven Horsford (D), Mark Amodei (R), and Diana Titus (D) — all from Nevada — have thrown their support […]
The House Homeland Security Committee has requested testimony from the leaders of key agencies behind the Trump administration‘s sweeping immigration raids just hours after another officer-involved shooting occurred in Minneapolis on Saturday. Homeland Security Committee Chairman Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) summoned U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting Director Todd Lyons, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner […]
Senate Democrats have threatened to block the passage of the appropriations bill funding the government after the deadly shooting involving U.S. Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis on Saturday. In a statement on Saturday night, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) vowed a blockade against the legislation if the funding bill for the Department of Homeland […]
President Donald Trump has surged emergency aid and resources to 10 states shortly before a winter storm is set to hit much of the Northeast and parts of the South. “I have just approved Emergency Declarations for Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, Maryland, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Indiana, and West Virginia. We are working closely with […]
