The Washington National Opera announced on Friday that it is ending its decadeslong partnership with the Trump-Kennedy Center, which has become the subject of sweeping controversy following President Donald Trump’s takeover of the institution. Unlike a stream of other leading artists and groups that have cut ties with the country’s leading cultural center in recent months, […]
President Donald Trump has called up several Republican senators to berate them over a recent vote the upper chamber held seeking to restrict his executive powers. The president privately unloaded on Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD). Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), who was viewed as one of the more surprising Republican supporters of the war […]
Demonstrators filled the streets of the nation’s capital for a second consecutive night this week, protesting the fatal shooting of a woman by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis and demanding an end to federal immigration enforcement in Washington, D.C. Protesters marched from the 14th Street and U Street corridor on Thursday […]
Longtime FBI insider Christopher Raia has been tapped to replace Dan Bongino as the agency’s deputy director. FBI Director Kash Patel has selected Raia to succeed Bongino after the incumbent deputy director announced last month he would leave the bureau in January, the agency confirmed to the Washington Examiner on Friday evening. Bongino’s nomination was […]
A federal appeals court on Friday acquitted a Virginia scholar criminally convicted of urging Muslims to fight with terrorist forces overseas after the 9/11 attacks waged by radical Islamist terrorists. The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that Ali Al-Timimi’s 2001 statements were protected under the First Amendment and did not reach the criminal […]
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office said Friday that the state is projecting a $2.9 billion budget deficit this year, far less than the $18 billion legislative budget analysts projected two months ago but still big enough to put the brakes on some ambitious new programs during his final year. Department of Finance officials unveiled the […]
President Donald Trump gave a soft endorsement of acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriguez on Friday, telling reporters that former dictator Nicolas Maduro’s replacement appears to be an “ally” of the United States after years of hostility from Venezuela’s government. Many have criticized Trump’s decision to allow Rodriguez, Maduro’s former vice president, to take over following last […]
President Donald Trump gave a soft endorsement of acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriguez on Friday, telling reporters that former dictator Nicolas Maduro’s replacement appears to be an “ally” of the United States after years of hostility from Venezuela’s government. Many have criticized Trump’s decision to allow Rodriguez, Maduro’s former vice president, to take over following last […]
The Trump administration announced Friday that it has begun reexamining the refugee status of thousands of Minnesota residents, launching a sweeping review that subjects already-approved refugees to new background checks and interviews amid an expanded federal enforcement operation in the state. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said the effort began in mid-December and is initially […]
The interim Venezuelan government has offered a token trickle of freedom to opposition prisoners since the capture of former dictator Nicolas Maduro, but hundreds remain imprisoned. Aracelis Del Carmen Balza Ramirez, a leader of the Vente Venezuela opposition party that was arrested in October, was released from prison on Friday. While supporters cheered her newfound […]
