Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) and Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) announced the deployment of their states’ National Guard in anticipation of “No Kings” protests. Abbott was the first to announce the deployment of the Texas National Guard to Austin through a foreboding statement on X, warning that any disorder wouldn’t be tolerated. “Today, I directed the […]
Nuclear industry insiders are bristling at the Trump administration’s suggestion that their sector can step in and provide consumers short-term relief on skyrocketing electricity costs associated with the country’s artificial intelligence boom. President Donald Trump has put his full weight behind the American AI race, funneling billions toward constructing data center projects and linked initiatives […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is scheduled to meet President Donald Trump on Friday at the White House. He is expected to request that the president provide long-range Tomahawk missiles to use in Ukraine’s war against Russia. However, on Thursday, Zelensky met with officials from multiple U.S. weapons and energy companies, which Ukraine’s president mentioned on […]
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 […]
