High-dollar dinners, oceanside retreats, and a birthday party for a lawmaker’s dog may fool the common observer into thinking the federal government is not in its third week of a shutdown. Little has changed for members of Congress since the entire government’s funding lapsed on Oct. 1, forcing some 2 million federal employees to be […]
House GOP appropriators are growing frustrated with the duration of the government shutdown, arguing they cannot do their jobs and will not bring the remaining full-year funding bills to the floor until the government reopens. All 12 appropriations cardinals told the Washington Examiner they are concerned about the time being lost as the shutdown carries […]
Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott (R-SC) has had a busy 10 months-plus advancing legislation, approving nominations, conducting oversight, and also chairing the National Republican Senatorial Committee in the lead-up to the 2026 midterm elections. But Scott, 60, said he is taking the work in stride and successfully balancing his legislative responsibilities and his job […]
President Donald Trump’s executive order to criminalize burning the American flag isn’t the first Republican effort to ban the provocative protest. In fact, the party came within a single vote of getting a constitutional amendment prohibiting desecration of the flag through Congress two decades ago. The obstacle, then as now, is a 1989 Supreme Court decision that […]
JERUSALEM — President Donald Trump‘s historic ceasefire plan between Israel and Hamas passed its first hurdle on Oct. 13, when the last 20 living Israeli hostages in captivity returned home to a grateful nation exhausted by two years of unrelenting war. Despite Trump’s reported anger at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to attack Hamas […]
ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — An army colonel who seized power in a military coup was sworn in as Madagascar’s new leader Friday in a lightning-fast power grab that ousted the president and sent him fleeing from the country into hiding. Col. Michael Randrianirina, the commander of an elite army unit, took the oath of office to become […]
The jury is still out on whether Hamas will blow up the landmark ceasefire agreement that President Donald Trump‘s team negotiated to bring an end to the war in Gaza. But it’s possible that while the president was making headlines for stopping the fighting in the Middle East, he may have achieved something even more […]
Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation are looking into antifa’s ringleaders, funding source, and specific cells operating in America, the Washington Examiner has learned. FBI agents have been reaching out to riot reporters for intelligence on antifa’s apparatus, making contact with the journalists, all of whom have covered antifa extensively, in the days following […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hoped to press President Donald Trump during their meeting on Friday at the White House on helping Ukraine take the war to Russia. But Zelensky’s chances of convincing Trump to provide Ukraine with long-range Tomahawk missiles that can reach 1,000 miles into Russia appear to have dissipated on Thursday after Trump’s phone call with […]
Slow Horses’ fifth season, now streaming, is another reminder of why the show has become one of AppleTV’s biggest audience hits. Based on a book series by Mick Herron, the show is pacy, funny, and boasts a murderer’s row of acting talent that includes Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jonathan Pryce, and Hugo Weaving. It […]
