The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied White House trade adviser Peter Navarro’s request to rehear his contempt of Congress case, leaving the Supreme Court as his next avenue for challenging the conviction. The appeals court’s Friday order said no judge requested a vote on Navarro’s petition for rehearing […]
The Trump administration appealed a temporary two-week block on the U.S. Postal Service’s new rule on mail-in voting on Friday. The Justice Department notified the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts that the administration is appealing Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani’s second block on the rule to the U.S. Court of Appeals […]
A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted a Kentucky woman on vandalism charges after she appeared to livestream herself defacing Washington, D.C.’s World War II Memorial. Melissa Farris seemed to be a homeless woman in a questionable state of mind earlier this month when she appeared to film herself spraying pink and green graffiti on […]
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday establishing the U.S. Space Academy, an institution he says will be the next U.S. military academy focused on training astronauts, engineers, scientists, and warfighters to lead the country into the future of space exploration and defense. Trump’s executive order creates a White House commission on the […]
Milo Yiannopoulos, a far-right political commentator who rose to fame in the 2010s, has been arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and is expected to face immediate deportation, the Washington Examiner has learned. Federal immigration authorities arrested Yiannopoulos at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport in Kenner, Louisiana, on Thursday, according to a Department […]
A federal court on Friday again rejected President Donald Trump’s effort to move his New York hush money conviction into federal court, dealing a setback to his attempt to press presidential immunity arguments outside the state appeals process. U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled that Trump’s renewed transfer bid came too late and did not […]
Washington Examiner economics columnist Tiana Lowe Doescher blasted Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and left-wing politicians in California after a new state law was passed, arguing it would inhibit journalists looking into fraud. “They are extending the state’s Safe At Home Address Confidentiality program, basically saying, you can’t post a video or a photo of someone, […]
The White House made no major public recognition Friday of the six-month anniversary of the Iran war, a conflict President Donald Trump predicted earlier this year would last only a matter of weeks. Neither Trump nor his administration acknowledged the milestone as the war entered its seventh month, even as Democrats and one Republican critic […]
Three men in Minnesota were sentenced this week to a combined 155 months in prison for submitting false meal claims in the $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud scheme, joining nearly two dozen others already sentenced for their roles in the sprawling fraud. U.S. District Judge Nancy E. Brasel sentenced Abdihakim Ali Ahmed, 40, of Apple Valley, […]
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) is not planning to hit the campaign trail for one-time primary opponent James Talarico as he campaigns against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for the U.S. Senate. “I will be campaigning downballot,” Crockett said on CNN’s Laura Coates Live when asked if she would appear with the Democratic state senator. During her […]
