President Donald Trump hinted at the construction of a new monument in Washington, D.C., in a social media post early Saturday. The new monument mirrors Paris’s Arc De Triomphe, and in the post appears to be across the Potomac River from Arlington National Cemetery. The president was spotted peeking at the design, drawn up by […]
President Donald Trump, just nine months into office, has all but fulfilled his campaign promise to bring the war on drugs to the cartels’ doorstep. The president’s recent strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean, coupled with his widespread efforts to secure the southern and northern borders and deport illegal immigrants, have yielded major […]
As trade tensions between the United States and South Korea persist, American companies operating in the East Asian country are expected to continue bearing the brunt of the fallout from the Trump administration’s immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in Georgia last month. The raid resulted in the detention of more than 300 Korean nationals, […]
The Trump administration began implementing plans to downsize the federal workforce on Friday amid the government shutdown, following through on the president’s vow to use the closure to target agencies and employees he has long sought to cut. “The RIFs have begun,” Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought wrote in a terse post […]
Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears (R-VA)’s efforts to reverse her underdog status in the Virginia gubernatorial race against former Rep. Abigail Spanberger kicked into high gear in the last full month of the campaign. After months of trailing Spanberger, Earle-Sears has seized upon an escalating drama surrounding Democratic attorney general nominee Jay Jones to reverse the […]
Republican Reps. Kevin Kiley (CA) and Jim Jordan (OH) launched an investigation this week into how a California charitable organization spent a $500,000 grant meant to support victims of the Palisades and Eaton Fires. The investigation follows several other federal investigations into the fatal infernos aimed at determining whether local officials prepared sufficiently for the emergency and […]
The United Nations welcomed two new officials to the advisory committee for its Human Rights Council this week in a vote that did not inspire confidence in the humanitarian body. Iranian diplomat Afsaneh Nadipour and Chinese Communist Party official Ren Yisheng were elected by acclamation as the new Asian representatives for the Advisory Committee of […]
President Donald Trump pledged on Friday to target “Democrat-oriented” government workers as his administration launches sweeping efforts to shrink the federal bureaucracy. “These are people that the Democrats wanted that, in many cases, were not appropriate,” Trump said in the Oval Office. “We fought them at the time, and it was ultimately signed in, and […]
President Donald Trump underwent his second annual physical examination of his current term on Wednesday after being diagnosed with a vein condition this summer, and received a COVID-19 booster shot. In a memo, Trump’s physician, Capt. Sean Barbabella wrote that Trump took part in advanced imaging, laboratory testing, and preventive health assessments at Walter Reed […]
EXCLUSIVE – House GOP leadership won’t push Republicans to vote against a bill to release all of the files related to Jeffrey Epstein when it inevitably comes to the floor after the government shutdown. Leaders don’t normally whip against privileged motions, Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) told the Washington Examiner, and the pending Epstein discharge […]
