ARLINGTON, Virginia – A judge in Virginia will allow Richard Cox, a registered child sex offender, to question witnesses at trial in a case centered in part on allegations of indecent exposure. Cox is facing dozens of charges in the case, Commonwealth v. Richard Cox, for entering female locker rooms and allegedly walking around naked […]
President Donald Trump became visibly frustrated during a White House roundtable on college sports on Friday when reporters kept asking questions unrelated to the topic. Peter Doocy, a senior White House correspondent at Fox News, probed the president on reports of Russia sharing intelligence with Iran regarding the position of U.S. forces in the Middle East. Despite his friendly […]
The Trump Kennedy Center has lost the executive director of the National Symphony Orchestra, marking the latest departure from the performing arts venue after the building was renamed and its leadership overhauled by President Donald Trump. Jean Davidson is leaving Washington, D.C., for Los Angeles to serve as executive director and CEO of the Wallis […]
Rep. Tony Gonzales’s (R-TX) decision to end his reelection bid has quelled an effort to rebuke him for having an affair with a staffer — sparing House Republicans a messy disciplinary fight as they struggle to manage their razor-thin majority. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) is reportedly halting her effort to censure the Texas Republican […]
Former President Barack Obama provided a dim outlook of the country during his eulogy for the late Rev. Jesse Jackson, saying, “it’s hard to hope.” Obama told the crowd gathered at the House of Hope on Chicago’s South Side for Jackson’s funeral that “each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic […]
The Florida Bar denied it is investigating Lindsey Halligan, the former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, after a bar official mistakenly said otherwise in response to a left-leaning nonprofit watchdog’s complaint. News of the pending investigation circulated Thursday night based on a Feb. 4 letter reported by the New York Times and […]
Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) pressed a State Department official Thursday about Biden administration funding to “queer” maps during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing. During the exchange, Mast questioned Undersecretary of Public Diplomacy Sarah B. Rogers about a program he referred to as “queer maps.” “Can you tell me — what is ‘queering’ the map?” […]
Many of Washington’s long-standing allies are hedging engagement in U.S.-Israeli operations against Iran, but their involvement is likely not decisive to the conflict’s outcome. In Spain, officials opened a rift with the United States after refusing to allow the Pentagon access to its military bases for “Operation Epic Fury.” In the United Kingdom, Prime Minister […]
Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) filed a motion in court Friday to prohibit President Donald Trump from moving forward with the planned temporary closure and renovations at the Trump-Kennedy Center. Beatty, an ex officio trustee at the recently renamed center, filed the motion to challenge what she called Trump’s “unlawful efforts to rename, shutter, and gut […]
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt downplayed ongoing tensions within the MAGA movement over the Iran war during a gaggle with reporters on Friday. “I would just remind people X is not real life,” Leavitt said after being asked about social media battles over Operation Epic Fury, the joint U.S.-Israel attack on Iran that launched […]
