EXCLUSIVE — Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) defended Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) prolonged absence from the Senate on Thursday, claiming that the “people” who are scrutinizing his health “want to put their name in the news.” The remark amounts to an apparent dig at Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY), a possible 2028 Democratic presidential candidate. This week, […]
Anthony Fauci’s diary details a June 2020 phone call in which President Donald Trump berated the infectious disease expert over comments he made about COVID-19 vaccine immunity before White House officials later sought to smooth things over. The account is included in a more than 1,000-page collection of Fauci’s writings released Saturday by Sen. Rand […]
Pressure is growing against Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) to keep the upper chamber in session until it passes the SAVE America Act. With just a handful of legislative days left until the Senate’s scheduled August recess, 14 senators have either called for the cancellation of recess or expressed support for staying in Washington […]
The Pennsylvania Green Party is distancing itself from candidates seeking to run under its banner in two battleground House districts, saying the campaigns were launched without the party’s endorsement. The party warned that “an effort to achieve ballot access in an un-transparent manner is underway,” while emphasizing that only candidates nominated through its official process […]
Mandela Barnes, the former lieutenant governor of Wisconsin and 2022 Democratic Senate nominee, dropped out of the Democratic gubernatorial primary race on Thursday. Barnes told staff in a conversation on Wednesday that there is a clear choice for the Democratic nomination, implicitly acknowledging socialist Francesca Hong’s overwhelming lead in the polls. “We’re incredibly proud of […]
The Department of Justice and several states from the southeastern United States on Thursday announced a data-sharing agreement between states and the federal government after $350 million in fraud was uncovered in the region. The Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division held a roundtable in Columbia, South Carolina, with U.S. attorneys, attorneys general, and over […]
The Trump administration is bringing the first-ever case before a little-known national security court created nearly three decades ago, seeking to deport an Afghan woman with a green card who the Justice Department alleges supported an Islamic State-linked terrorist plot involving her son and son-in-law. Nazira Haji Zada, 47 of Fort Worth, Texas, is scheduled […]
The Senate narrowly voted down a measure Thursday that would have forced President Donald Trump to remove U.S. armed forces from “hostilities” with Iran. In a 50-49 vote, the Senate voted against advancing a war powers resolution to constrain Trump’s ability to wage war without approval by Congress. Three Republicans — Susan Collins (R-ME), Rand […]
Washington Examiner executive editor Bob Cusack said Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Senate hearing was significant, but argued that lawmakers undermined its impact by how they conducted the proceedings. “I think the emphasis of the hearing is a bit off,” Cusack said Wednesday on CNN’s Laura Coates Live. “Having the hearing is a good thing because mistakes […]
Former President Barack Obama revived one of his signature summer traditions: sharing a new playlist that blends chart-toppers with classic hits spanning genres. “Here are some of the songs I’ve been listening to this summer,” Obama wrote Thursday in a post on X. “It starts with a song Michelle and I love by Glen Hansard, […]
