House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) called for “aggressive oversight” of Immigration and Customs Enforcement during an appearance on ABC’s The View Monday. He criticized the agency’s recent conduct under the Trump administration and defended immigrant communities targeted by federal enforcement. Pressed by cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin on whether he supported progressive calls to defund […]
Washington Examiner columnist Salena Zito said Monday that President Donald Trump contacted her a day after the first attempt on his life, during which he explained why he chanted, “fight, fight, fight,” to his supporters. Trump narrowly survived an assassination attempt at a rally on July 13, 2024, with Zito in attendance. After Trump was […]
Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) will resign from the House at the end of this month, kickstarting House Republicans’ search for a new chairman on the powerful Homeland Security Committee. Green announced Friday, after the One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed the House, that he would retire from Congress and alerted GOP leaders that it would […]
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) rejected the idea that government weather manipulation could have fueled catastrophic flash flooding in Texas over the weekend, even as weather modification theories have gained traction with some of his Republican colleagues. When pressed during a Monday morning press conference over speculation that heavy rains in the Lone Star State had […]
President Donald Trump on Sunday signaled he’s willing to intervene in the Washington Commanders’ stalled stadium negotiations, suggesting the federal government could assert control over the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial site if the D.C. Council refuses to approve Mayor Muriel Bowser’s proposed $1.1 billion taxpayer-funded deal. “If I can help them out, I would,” Trump […]
Russia’s abduction and deportation of thousands of Ukrainian children could amount to the crime of genocide, according to the special rapporteur for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly. “Yes, I think we could speak about genocide,” Carina Odebrink, the special rapporteur, said in a recent interview with Ukrinform. Since Russia’s full-scale […]
President Donald Trump’s nominees for the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration will appear for a confirmation hearing on Wednesday before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Neil Jacobs has been nominated for undersecretary for oceans and atmosphere, or the NOAA Administrator, while Taylor Jordan and Harry Kumar have both been nominated for assistant secretary […]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) revealed on Monday that he is preparing to meet with Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s Democratic mayoral nominee, next week after continuing to withhold his endorsement of the socialist candidate. Mamdani won the Democratic nomination last week, defeating former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and others in the party’s primary election […]
The lone Republican commissioner on the Federal Election Commission has decided to forgo a run for Texas attorney general and stick with the agency to prevent it from being used as a political weapon by Democrats. James E. “Trey” Trainor III thanked those who encouraged him to run and explained that he was unwilling to […]
The Trump administration plans to deport Salvadoran national Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a third country before he can face trial in Tennessee if he is released from criminal custody, a Justice Department attorney said Monday. During a federal court hearing in Greenbelt, Maryland, DOJ attorney Jonathan Guynn told U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis that if Abrego Garcia is allowed to walk free before his criminal […]
