Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha criticized Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul el Sayed for failing to denounce Iran’s regime after being questioned by a college student. “This is like asking, ‘Oh, are you against cancer?’ ‘Yeah, I’m against cancer,’ like that’s how easy this layup was as far as condemning, obviously, the IRGC,” Concha said […]
Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell (D-NJ) handed in his resignation letter on Friday, after Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) called for him to step down following an investigation into his alleged inappropriate sexual misconduct. Caldwell, Sherrill’s running mate in the 2025 New Jersey gubernatorial election, resigned after an ethics report alleging he “engaged in serious, repeated violations […]
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will not be the first AI czar to lead the so-called AI Force, President Donald Trump confirmed on Friday. The president appeared to be addressing a Semafor report that listed Bessent as a top contender for the new role. “Scott Bessent will not be going to be Super Intelligence (SI) Czar,” […]
A federal judge ruled that Oklahoma officials cannot exclude a Jewish school from the state’s charter school program, more than a year after the Supreme Court punted on the constitutionality of taxpayer-funded religious charter schools. U.S. District Judge David Russell, an appointee of former President Ronald Reagan, found that Oklahoma officials’ denial of the National […]
Republican Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway announced Friday that her office is launching an investigation into ActBlue, the Democratic Party’s largest online fundraising platform, over allegations that it accepted fraudulent and potentially illegal foreign political contributions. Hanaway’s office issued civil investigative demands to ActBlue seeking documents and information related to its donation-processing and fraud-prevention practices. […]
President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping may have just said goodbye to one another after Xi’s state visit to the U.S., but the two superpower world leaders have already pledged to meet two more times before the end of the year. “President Xi and Madam Peng have just left D.C., heading for China,” […]
President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping compared the lengths of their respective countries’ histories during a visit to the National Archives. “We’re just comparing,” Trump told reporters Thursday in the National Archives’ rotunda. “Ours goes 250 years. Which is great, and we’re proud of. Theirs goes 6,000 years. So there’s a little difference […]
The United States is demanding that China cease any aid to the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the U.S. ambassador claimed Beijing is playing ball. Ambassador to China David Perdue told CNBC in a Friday interview that President Donald Trump has communicated this request for weeks but revisited the issue during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s […]
A federal judge on Friday ordered the deadlocked jury in Washington, D.C., in councilman Trayon White’s bribery trial to continue deliberations despite the defense requesting a mistrial. White, who represents Ward 8, is facing charges that he accepted tens of thousands of dollars in bribes in exchange for a promise to use his influence to […]
Major networks in the White House television press pool are resuming their coverage on Friday after press passes were reinstated for CNN, Politico, and MS Now. The development comes one day after a Trump-appointed federal judge ordered the administration to lift its ban on the three news outlets for two weeks. President Donald Trump banned […]
