The Trump administration added Colombia to a list of countries failing to cooperate in the war on drugs for the first time in nearly 30 years. The designation reflects the deteriorating relations between the United States and one of its closest Latin American allies. Trump’s vision has repeatedly clashed with that of the left-wing president, […]
Russia has sent tens of thousands of Ukrainian children, whom they have abducted, to more than 200 different facilities, where about a fifth of them have been given military training, according to a new report from a United States watchdog organization. It’s believed that Russian forces have taken more than 35,000 Ukrainian children from their homes, largely in […]
President Donald Trump said he wasn’t aware of Democratic Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman, who a gunman assassinated in June. Speaking with reporters in the Oval Office, Trump was asked by a reporter whether, in retrospect, he thinks it would have been fitting to lower the flag in honor of Hortman, given the tributes to the […]
An appeals court rejected President Donald Trump’s effort to remove Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook from her position. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled 2-1 against Trump’s bid for emergency relief to fire Cook before the two-day Fed meeting on Tuesday. The court ruled that she will stay in […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) held a memorial Monday night to honor the life of conservative activist Charlie Kirk after he was assassinated last week in Utah. Johnson, along with House leadership and other members of Congress, gathered to deliver remarks and prayers on the “life and legacy” of Kirk. The Majority of the Republican […]
The Washington Post fired a longtime staff member and columnist after she posted a fake Charlie Kirk quote and other inflammatory rhetoric just hours after the conservative activist’s assassination. On Monday, columnist Karen Attiah revealed that she had been fired by the Washington Post the week before. In a Substack post, she claimed she was […]
Official communications from the government of Taiwan continue to use coded language regarding the island’s relationship with mainland China, but Taiwanese leaders are far less ambiguous behind closed doors. The Washington Examiner traveled to Taipei, Taiwan, to speak with members of the island’s government about their increased push for independence, as well as conservative opposition […]
President Donald Trump is supportive of designating antifa a domestic terrorist organization as he and his aides consider how to respond to an increase in political violence, a concern pushed into the spotlight after last week’s assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. “It’s something I would do, yeah,” Trump told reporters on Monday at the […]
A new poll found that more people think Charlie Kirk’s assassin was a Republican than a Democrat, a perception fueled in part by the spread of misinformation. A survey conducted by YouGov on Sunday, four days after the conservative activist’s assassination, found that, based on the available information, 24% of U.S. adults believed a Republican […]
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) filed a resolution on Monday to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and strip her of committee assignments for her remarks about Charlie Kirk, the late conservative activist. Omar has faced backlash for comments she made last week. She called Republicans criticizing violence from the Left “disgusting” and blasted Kirk for remarks […]
