France is on track to become the latest European nation to legalize assisted suicide for adults suffering from severe maladies, but not without opposition. The National Assembly voted on Tuesday to establish a “right to assistance in dying” for adults who are “afflicted with a serious illness” and have requested euthanasia. Under the framework of […]
Gov. Wes Moore (D-MA) heaped praise on Democratic kingmaker Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) at a high-profile South Carolina dinner. Moore insists he has no intentions to run for president in 2028, but his appearance at the dinner is sure to add to speculation. As the keynote speaker at the Democrats’ 2025 Blue Palmetto Dinner at […]
PBS sued the Trump administration on Friday over the president’s move to defund public media. In an executive order signed May 1, President Donald Trump ordered the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to “cancel existing direct funding to the maximum extent allowed by law and shall decline to provide future funding” to NPR and PBS, arguing […]
EXCLUSIVE — Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-MI) showed no signs of backing down from exploring a run for Michigan’s open Senate seat in an interview Friday with the Washington Examiner, even as his potential entry is frustrating national Republicans who’ve already coalesced around former Rep. Mike Rogers. President Donald Trump, who endorsed Rogers in his unsuccessful […]
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is delivering a speech in Singapore. His address comes as part of the Shangri-La Dialogue 2025, hosted by the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He’s set to begin his speech at around 8:30 p.m. DEFENSE DEPARTMENT SCRAPS WEEKLY DOGE-INITIATED ACTIVITY REPORTS The Department of Defense said Hegseth will discuss the agency’s […]
Top Trump administration officials are unhappy with arrest and deportation numbers and have lambasted the federal immigration officials responsible for the operation, the Washington Examiner learned. Three current and former federal immigration officials detailed a recent heated exchange between White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller and dozens of senior U.S. Immigration and Customs […]
President Donald Trump hinted on Friday that Israel and Hamas are close to another ceasefire, as Israeli ground operations intensify in Gaza. During a Friday Oval Office press conference, Trump said the adversaries were “very close” to another ceasefire, despite Hamas having rejected the last U.S. ceasefire proposal backed by Israel. “They’re very close to […]
President Donald Trump announced Friday evening during a visit to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that he is doubling the current 25% steel tariffs to 50%. “We are going to be imposing a 25% increase,” Trump said while speaking at US Steel’s Mon Valley Works–Irvin Plant. “We’re going to bring it from 25% to 50%, the tariffs on steel into the United States of […]
A Kentucky state senator announced she is leaving the Democratic Party on Friday, defecting to the state’s Republican supermajority because her former party “increasingly alienated lifelong rural Democrats like myself.” Democratic state Sen. Robin Webb, who served in Kentucky politics for over 25 years, was the last state Senate Democrat standing in eastern Kentucky. “While […]
President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he fired National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet for being “a highly partisan person, and a strong supporter of DEI.” In a Truth Social post, Trump said several others had requested or recommended Sajet’s removal and that her support for diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives was “totally inappropriate for her position.” […]
