President Donald Trump will meet with the President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, at 11 a.m. at the White House. El Salvador has accepted over 250 Venezuelan immigrants the Trump administration has deported to the country’s notorious prison.
South Africa announced it will replace former ambassador to the United States Ebrahim Rasool with a special envoy, Mcebisi Jonas, who has a background as deputy finance minister. Secretary of State Marco Rubio expelled Rasool weeks ago and gave him “persona non grata” status. It is a rare occurrence in U.S. history to expel such a high-ranking […]
Mike Rogers, the former Republican congressman who lost his Michigan Senate bid against Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) in the 2024 election, has announced he is running again in 2026. Rogers narrowly lost to Slotkin last year, 48.3% to 48.64%, also trailing President Donald Trump in support by about a point-and-a-half. Slotkin outpaced former Vice President […]
New York Helicopter Tours is shut down while the Federal Aviation Administration investigates the crash of one of its helicopters into the Hudson River last week. Six people on board died as a result of the crash, including the former Navy SEAL pilot Seankese Johnson, Agustin Escobar, his wife, Merce Camprubi Montal, and their three […]
Conservatives have long had their sights set on revisiting a Supreme Court case that set a high bar for public officials to prove the media defamed them, but President Donald Trump’s return to power has put a spotlight on this key press protection. The Right’s interest in changing the New York Times v. Sullivan precedent […]
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), once a rising star in the Republican Party, is staring down a pair of decisions in 2026 and 2028 regarding his family’s political future that could both run afoul of fellow Floridian President Donald Trump. Despite a disastrous 2024 presidential campaign, DeSantis, a popular governor, is a rumored candidate for a 2028 […]
The national average price for a gallon of regular gas fell on Monday. The dip in fuel costs was a seven-cent drop from a week ago to $3.184, according to AAA. It comes after weeks of economic uncertainty regarding tariffs and other geopolitical issues. Gas prices have cooled off after steadily rising since the middle […]
Armed with leverage over the future of President Donald Trump’s policy agenda and little faith in Congress, Republican fiscal hawks are holding the White House’s feet to the fire to force deep federal budget cuts. The White House and congressional leaders have dangled an array of cost-cutting options to weary Republican holdouts concerned about the […]
Artificial intelligence is fast becoming an integral part of everyday life. But as the technology explodes, the debate intensifies on how to harness it properly and ethically. This Washington Examiner series, The Integration Era, will look at how AI is being used responsibly in Congress, how its usage is causing headaches in schools, and how Congress […]
EXCLUSIVE — Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is asking the Department of Justice to open a civil rights investigation into a proposed Muslim-focused community development in Josephine, Texas. In a letter to the Justice Department sent Friday, Cornyn asks the agency to investigate whether the community, which would cater to Texas’s Muslim population, would violate the […]
