Washington Examiner Senior Writer Joe Concha rebuked former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s political shift as insincere, heavily criticizing her lack of transparency to the public. Jean-Pierre says in her new book, Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines, that she was “enraged and heartbroken” over the treatment former […]
A federal appeals court allowed President Donald Trump to federalize 200 Oregon National Guardsmen and deploy them to Portland on Monday, lifting a lower court’s block on the president’s order deploying the troops. A three judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled 2-1 in favor of lifting the order […]
Federal prosecutors are raising alarms over what they call an “extraordinary” conflict of interest in James Comey’s defense team, alleging the former FBI director hired a possible witness in his own criminal case to represent him and help keep key evidence under wraps. In a late Sunday filing, prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia […]
President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) are hosting the Louisiana State University and LSU-Shreveport national championship baseball teams at the White House. The welcoming is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. TRUMP AND AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER PUT ON UNITED FRONT BEFORE PRESIDENT’S MEETING WITH XI The LSU Tigers won the NCAA Division I […]
Rep. Nick LaLota (R-NY) said he was “not happy” about President Donald Trump’s decision to grant clemency to former Republican New York Rep. George Santos on Friday. LaLota was one of several congressional Republicans who first demanded Santos’s resignation in 2023. Santos pleaded guilty in August 2024 to several felony charges, including wire fraud and […]
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) on Monday became the latest Republican to flirt with invoking the “nuclear option” to end the gridlock in the Senate that has catapulted the government into one of the longest shutdowns in history. Congressional Republican leaders have thus far steadfastly opposed applying the rarely used legislative maneuver as a workaround to […]
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee outraised the National Republican Congressional Committee in the third quarter by a little over $2 million after the GOP’s record-shattering off-year September. The DCCC raised $26.2 million in the third quarter, with $11.5 million coming from September, leaving the committee with a $46 million war chest. “While House Republicans refuse […]
President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese demonstrated a united front against China in the Indo-Pacific as the United States and Australia recommitted to their nuclear submarine deal with the United Kingdom and signed a new one regarding critical minerals. Trump and Albanese, whose previous meeting with Trump on the sidelines of the […]
Washington Examiner Senior Columnist Salena Zito said the growing number of “dehumanizing” statements from politicians is “very dangerous,” warning that “unstable” people could take this rhetoric “to the next level.” Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner apologized Friday for social media comments he made in 2018 that included encouraging anyone expecting “to fight fascism without […]
Colombia recalled its ambassador to the United States on Monday after President Donald Trump threatened to impose additional tariffs on the South American nation and strike drug production fields within its borders. “The Ambassador of Colombia to the United States, Daniel García-Peña, has been recalled to Bogotá for consultations by President Gustavo Petro Urrego,” Colombian […]
