Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said President Donald Trump has ulterior motives with federalizing police in Washington, D.C., adding that Trump needs his supporters focused on “something else.” Trump announced his move to address crime in the nation’s capital Monday, giving Attorney General Pam Bondi control over the Metropolitan Police Department. Buttigieg, however, said Trump […]
A Texas Democrat who recently fled the state in protest of Republicans’ mid-decade redistricting efforts is speaking out against law enforcement staking out the absent lawmakers’ homes. Democratic Texas state Rep. Josey Garcia said plainclothes officers in unmarked vehicles visited her house in the San Antonio area over the weekend. While she did not confirm […]
UFC CEO Dana White says Tuesday the fighting company will “definitely” have its first White House fight on July 4 next year, as part of a larger-scale celebration of the nation’s 250th anniversary. President Donald Trump announced the fight on July 3 while attending an event in Des Moines, Iowa, with expectations of up to […]
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) saw his favorability rating dip in a poll released Tuesday, as many in the party call for generational changes. According to a Siena College poll, Schumer is at his lowest favorability rating, dating back to February 2005, at 38% who approve to 50% who disapprove, a change from 41% […]
The United States is seeking to construct a humanitarian corridor for Israel to cut through Syrian territory and connect with the embattled Druze community. U.S. government authorities are negotiating a deal for the project, which would extend from the Israeli border into the city of Sweida, where Druze have been exchanging violent attacks with Bedouin […]
President Donald Trump is setting the gears in motion for a significant expansion of America’s polar fleet, marked by the Monday commissioning of the United States Coast Guard cutter Storis, its first new polar icebreaker in decades. In total, funding provided by Trump’s reconciliation bill, which he signed into law on July 4, and the […]
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) on Monday expressed optimism that former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would be forced to comply with a congressional subpoena to testify on the Jeffrey Epstein case. Earlier this month, the Clintons were among nearly a dozen figures the committee subpoenaed for depositions […]
Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA) could face a serious challenge against a GOP state senator, as her district remains a toss-up. Washington state Sen. John Braun entered the Republican primary Tuesday in hopes of being the GOP nominee to run for one of the 10 seats occupied by a Democrat and considered a toss-up in […]
The White House has expressed regret over a federal judge’s decision to deny the Trump administration’s request to unseal grand jury material regarding Ghislaine Maxwell. “We think that decision is unfortunate,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Tuesday. “Of course, we moved to unseal that information because the president has said he […]
The District of Columbia’s Ward 8 is on track to have a homicide rate this year of roughly 71.9 per 100,000, slightly higher than the murder rate recorded in Mexico’s Ciudad Juárez, a city that frequently appears on lists of the most dangerous places in the world, during 2024, a Washington Examiner review of public […]
