President Donald Trump filed an amended complaint in his defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal in an effort to prove that the reporters published a birthday letter Trump allegedly wrote to Jeffrey Epstein with actual malice. Obama-appointed judge Darrin P. Gayles of the Southern District of Florida had dismissed Trump’s original complaint in the […]
EXCLUSIVE — Washington, D.C. mayoral candidate Janeese Lewis George has floated the policy of opening safe injection sites in the district to help relieve its opioid overdose crisis. Safe injection sites, sometimes called overdose prevention centers, are places where people can go to use illegal drugs under professional supervision. The facilities are aimed at creating […]
President Donald Trump publicly praised three major American corporations on the same day or the day after he had bought tens of thousands of dollars of their stocks, according to recently reported financial disclosures. Trump’s first-quarter investment filings, submitted late this month to the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, show that the president purchased stock […]
A district court judge denied a request on Thursday by Senate Democrats for an injunction to block an executive order issued by President Donald Trump regarding mail-in voting and citizenship lists. The request was rejected on the grounds that the request did not show “that preliminary injunctive relief is warranted.” U.S. District Judge Carl J. […]
President Donald Trump will soon find out whether he has a new wild card to worry about in the Senate after helping send John Cornyn (R-TX) into an early retirement. Cornyn on Tuesday became the second incumbent to lose his primary to a Trump-backed challenger, handing Senate leadership another lame duck with no incentive to back Trump […]
The Texas GOP’s decision to nominate Attorney General Ken Paxton over longtime Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is reigniting one of the Democratic Party’s most persistent political debates: whether Texas is finally becoming competitive enough to justify a massive Senate investment. Democrats immediately celebrated Paxton’s victory as a possible turning point, arguing the embattled attorney general […]
Officials from the United States Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, disputed reports of abandonment on Thursday amid threats of Russian airstrikes in the country’s capital city. The denial comes in response to comments by Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, who claimed the U.S. had evacuated the Embassy. She […]
EXCLUSIVE — Three of the world’s largest asset management firms have used retirement shares as leverage in corporate political fights to push environmental, social, and governance investing goals on Wall Street, a free market watchdog is claiming. BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street have effectively turned clients’ retirement accounts into pro-ESG voting power, according to a […]
LVIV, UKRAINE — Andriy Zholob, the deputy mayor of Lviv for Veterans Affairs, understood there was, unmistakably, a mental health crisis brewing among Ukrainian veterans after one disquieting phone call. Zholob recounted to the Washington Examiner the moment when a former comrade in arms called him to say his car had been towed away. The veteran, […]
President Donald Trump‘s endorsement has become the closest thing Republicans have to a political death sentence — or a golden ticket. This cycle, Trump has ousted Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and John Cornyn (R-TX), as well as Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), after endorsing their primary challengers. So far, nearly all of the Republicans that Trump […]
