Syrian President Bashar al-Assad faced another day of serious setbacks with a renewed uprising south of Damascus and the takeover of much of the country’s east by Kurdish forces. Just one day after the fall of Hama, rebels that had previously reconciled with the government once again took up arms around the city of Daraa, […]
A Boston city councilor was taken into custody on Friday morning on federal public corruption charges, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts announced. Democrat Tania Fernandes Anderson was arrested by FBI agents on six felony charges, including five counts of wire fraud and one count of theft concerning federally funded programs, relating […]
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is holding a press conference at the White House on Friday afternoon. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER This is the first press briefing since President Joe Biden announced Sunday night he would pardon his son, Hunter Biden. The move has prompted backlash from Republicans and Democrats. The […]
President-elect Donald Trump‘s selection of Caleb Vitello as the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is part of the incoming administration’s effort to push out the Biden holdover on Day One and begin carrying out the mass deportation, sources tell the Washington Examiner. Trump announced Vitello, a senior ICE official, as the leader […]
Synagro, a waste recycling company owned by Goldman Sachs, is lobbying Congress to shield the sludge manufacturer from being subjected to lawsuits over synthetic chemicals contaminating farmlands. In 2022, the company created the Coalition of Recyclers of Residual Organics by Practitioners of Sustainability to lobby its interests to Congress. Leading the nonprofit group is Synagro […]
Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan, a Republican, has dropped his bid for a third term amid disagreements within the Texas GOP. Phelan had previously stated he had enough votes to hold off a challenge from the right-wing of the party led by state Rep. David Cook, who was formerly allied with Phelan. On Friday, however, […]
Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX), the new chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, urged colleagues to move away from “preachy” politics that he worried cost the Democratic Party the election. Casar was elected to lead the group of progressive House lawmakers on Thursday. This week, he became the latest in a host of prominent Democrats calling […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) is in the race to be the next top Democrat on the influential House Oversight Committee, setting her up for a battle with Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) during a party-wide, generational leadership shakeup after the 2024 elections. After a week of speculation and confirmation from the New York congresswoman that […]
President-elect Donald Trump reiterated his support Friday for Pete Hegseth to lead the Pentagon, just hours after being named Fox News‘s Patriot of the Year. Hegseth, who is looking to jump directly from Fox News to the second Trump administration, is facing an uphill battle toward being confirmed after sexual assault allegations and his reported […]
Sen.-elect Adam Schiff (D-CA) will resign from the House of Representatives early and be sworn in as California’s junior senator next Monday. Schiff alerted the House on Friday that he would be leaving the lower chamber effective Sunday and confirmed to the Washington Examiner he will be sworn in to the Senate on Dec. 9, […]
