Senate lawmakers from both parties were blindsided by President Donald Trump’s decision to tap Bill Pulte as the acting director of national intelligence on Tuesday and are questioning his qualifications for the post. The selection seemed to come as a surprise to lawmakers on Capitol Hill, as many senators said they knew nothing about the […]
Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) said on Tuesday that homosexuality doesn’t belong in the United States. “Homosexuality has no place in America,” he posted on X. “Happy Nuclear Family Month.” Ogles has a history of making inflammatory statements regarding the LGBT community and introducing anti-LGBT legislation, including a bill that sought to ban federally funded gender […]
Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York weighed in on the sexting scandal surrounding Graham Platner, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine. “Public opinion hasn’t caught up — there’s a lot of things we don’t know about this,” York said Tuesday on Fox News’s The Ingraham Angle. York argued that the recent allegations […]
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz had some blunt advice for critics of President Donald Trump, whom the commander in chief often says suffer from “Trump derangement syndrome.” “I am concerned about folks who have focused their entire life energy on dislike of the president,” Oz told reporters on Tuesday. “It’s disheartening […]
Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser sent a letter to the D.C. Council criticizing progressive mayoral candidate Janeese Lewis George and other council members who refused to back a plan to extend the city’s teen curfew this summer. Lewis George, one of the members resisting the curfew, is a leading candidate in the district’s June 16 […]
Secretary of State Marco Rubio disputed Sen. Jacky Rosen’s (D-NV) characterization of where he was and what he was doing while the U.S. negotiating team, which he was not a part of, met with Iranian officials in Pakistan in April. The heated moment between them occurred during the secretary’s testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations […]
President Donald Trump keeps going back to the doctor because he likes the results, according to Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Oz was asked during a White House press briefing about Trump’s recent visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center last week for a routine physical. […]
Eight Muslim countries, including those relatively friendly to Israel, such as the United Arab Emirates, released a joint statement condemning Israel over Jewish activists’ occupation of the al-Aqsa mosque. On Sunday, roughly 200 hard-line Israeli activists stormed one of the holiest sites of Islam, the al-Aqsa mosque. The group raised the Israeli flag at the […]
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) unloaded criticism Tuesday against fellow Democrat Graham Platner, the party’s embattled presumptive nominee who’s set to take on Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) in Maine’s battleground Senate race. A centrist with a track record of bucking Democrats, Fetterman compared Platner’s latest controversy, an extramarital sexting scandal, to disgraced former California Democratic Rep. Eric […]
Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin is testifying in front of a Senate appropriations subcommittee on Tuesday about his department’s budget request for the upcoming fiscal year. The Department of Homeland Security is requesting $118.4 billion in overall funding for fiscal 2027, starting Oct. 1, as proposed by the White House. Nearly $23 billion of […]
