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.” […]
The online obsession with Jeffrey Epstein has become a headache for President Donald Trump’s top brass in the Justice Department, thanks to the MAGA supporters who are driving a backlash over the DOJ’s perceived secrecy about the disgraced financier’s death. FBI Director Kash Patel, his deputy Dan Bongino, and Attorney General Pam Bondi have come under fire […]
Elon Musk sported a black eye, which he blamed on his son X, at a Friday press conference as he departed from the Trump administration. Musk said he told his son to hit him as hard as he could. President Donald Trump praised Musk’s work as head of the Department of Government Efficiency during the […]
Indicted Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan believes she is shielded from prosecution in a federal case accusing her of obstructing the arrest of an illegal immigrant who was before her court, according to a filing submitted by her lawyers on Thursday. Dugan was arrested in April and indicted by a federal grand jury earlier this […]
