Vice President JD Vance was back on Joe Rogan’s popular podcast Wednesday, defending diplomacy with Iran and admitting the Trump administration made mistakes on the Epstein files. The appearance was a way of reconnecting with low-propensity voters who were crucial to putting President Donald Trump back in the White House with a plurality of the […]
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche appeared to make progress with key Republican skeptics on Wednesday, putting President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Justice Department on a smoother path toward confirmation before the August recess. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said after the confirmation hearing that Sens. Thom Tillis (R-NC) and John Cornyn […]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) found himself in the minority opinion of his party on a vote to cut off U.S. aid to Israel, with a majority of Democrats backing the failed proposal. The proposal, offered by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), would have struck $3 billion of foreign aid to Israel in the annual […]
Thousands of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are caught in a disagreement between President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin over ICE’s ability to conduct traffic stops, all while sentiment about the president’s second DHS boss turns negative among some of the president’s closest supporters. In the wake of two ICE-involved fatal […]
Maine Democrats are racing to reunify a fractured party after Graham Platner‘s abrupt withdrawal from the Senate race, with eight candidates competing to inherit the progressive coalition he built while navigating an unusually compressed nominating process that will determine who takes on Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) this fall. What would normally unfold over several months […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) last month paid a pro-Palestinian activist who previously raised funds for refugee camps in the West Bank that Israeli authorities say have become hubs for Hamas, a Washington Examiner review of the congresswoman’s campaign spending receipts found. According to Ocasio-Cortez’s recently released Federal Election Commission disclosures, she gave $375 to Naurin […]
Tensions between House and Senate Republicans are already complicating the GOP’s latest reconciliation push, with House lawmakers openly questioning whether senators can be trusted to preserve key priorities in the party-line spending package. Vice President JD Vance met privately with House Republicans on Wednesday to reassure skeptical conservatives after leadership unveiled the $95 billion framework, […]
The Washington Examiner tracked the second-quarter fundraising data for candidates in some of the most competitive House seats. Republicans are hoping to hold on to their narrow majority in the midterm elections, but are staring down potential headwinds such as the war in Iran, a lagging economy, and historical trends. The GOP, however, came out […]
A foreign Marxist group behind decades of terrorist attacks has quietly embedded itself in American activism, an academic report finds. Several groups leading pro-Palestinian protests in the United States have shared event spaces with the violent Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, echoed its narratives, or defended its members in recent years, according to […]
The Supreme Court will hear a case in its upcoming term over whether Colorado can exclude Catholic preschools from a state program, but how the justices rule could have implications for other religious groups’ ability to participate in government programs without having to give up their beliefs. Next term, the high court will hear St. […]
