Washington Examiner senior writer Joe Concha rebuffed the “miserable people” complaining that the United States men’s Olympic hockey team attended the State of the Union Tuesday night. President Donald Trump hosted the U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team on Tuesday after the team scored a 2-1 victory over Canada to win the gold. The team received […]
Congress won’t be leaping into action to pass many of President Donald Trump’s second-year priorities, with the filibuster and quiet GOP opposition standing in the way of bills he requested at his Tuesday State of the Union address. In a nearly two-hour speech, Trump called on lawmakers to codify several policies he’s so far pursued […]
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) this week predicted his Republican primary battle to retain his Texas Senate seat would end in a runoff election with state Attorney General Ken Paxton. Cornyn, Paxton, and Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) are engaged in a bitter three-way battle to win the March 3 primary. Cornyn said this week that he […]
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that courts may place limitations on what a lawyer can discuss with his client during an overnight recess while the client is in the middle of testifying, finding it does not infringe on anyone’s constitutional rights. The high court ruled 9-0 in Villarreal v. Texas that courts may limit discussion […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) told reporters that Rep. Tony Gonzales‘s (R-TX) constituents would be the judges, after the Texas representative’s alleged explicit text messages with a former, now deceased, staffer were revealed. “I’ve said to him publicly and privately, he’s got to address that directly and head on with his constituents,” Johnson said to […]
A coalition of Republican attorneys general from 11 states is asking the Justice Department to conduct a “thorough and exacting” antitrust review of the pending merger between Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery, a deal facing intensifying legal and political pressure. In a letter submitted Tuesday, the state officials say they share concerns made by private […]
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform has postponed depositions for two longtime associates of the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, pushing their testimony into March after initially scheduling at least one of their appearances for this week. A source familiar with the committee’s planning told the Washington Examiner that lawmakers coordinated with former Epstein accountant […]
Japan is preparing to establish missile-launching capabilities on an island almost 70 miles from Taiwan. Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said the government is hoping to complete the military infrastructure project on the island of Yonaguni in the next five years. “It depends on the progress of preparing facilities, but we are planning fiscal 2030,” […]
Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York said Tuesday that the Republican Party faces an uphill battle going into the 2026 midterm elections. President Donald Trump is focusing on affordability ahead of the midterm elections, as the Republican Party seeks to retain its thin majority in the House of Representatives. York noted how Trump and […]
President Donald Trump’s nominee to be surgeon general faced intense questioning on Tuesday over her stance on mifepristone, the most widely used abortion pill in the United States. During testimony before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, Dr. Casey Means declined to answer whether she believes mifepristone should only be prescribed after an […]
