President-elect Donald Trump‘s selection of Caleb Vitello as the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is part of the incoming administration’s effort to push out the Biden holdover on Day One and begin carrying out the mass deportation, sources tell the Washington Examiner. Trump announced Vitello, a senior ICE official, as the leader […]
Synagro, a waste recycling company owned by Goldman Sachs, is lobbying Congress to shield the sludge manufacturer from being subjected to lawsuits over synthetic chemicals contaminating farmlands. In 2022, the company created the Coalition of Recyclers of Residual Organics by Practitioners of Sustainability to lobby its interests to Congress. Leading the nonprofit group is Synagro […]
Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan, a Republican, has dropped his bid for a third term amid disagreements within the Texas GOP. Phelan had previously stated he had enough votes to hold off a challenge from the right-wing of the party led by state Rep. David Cook, who was formerly allied with Phelan. On Friday, however, […]
Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX), the new chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, urged colleagues to move away from “preachy” politics that he worried cost the Democratic Party the election. Casar was elected to lead the group of progressive House lawmakers on Thursday. This week, he became the latest in a host of prominent Democrats calling […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) is in the race to be the next top Democrat on the influential House Oversight Committee, setting her up for a battle with Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) during a party-wide, generational leadership shakeup after the 2024 elections. After a week of speculation and confirmation from the New York congresswoman that […]
President-elect Donald Trump reiterated his support Friday for Pete Hegseth to lead the Pentagon, just hours after being named Fox News‘s Patriot of the Year. Hegseth, who is looking to jump directly from Fox News to the second Trump administration, is facing an uphill battle toward being confirmed after sexual assault allegations and his reported […]
Sen.-elect Adam Schiff (D-CA) will resign from the House of Representatives early and be sworn in as California’s junior senator next Monday. Schiff alerted the House on Friday that he would be leaving the lower chamber effective Sunday and confirmed to the Washington Examiner he will be sworn in to the Senate on Dec. 9, […]
New York Police Department detectives collected a DNA sample related to the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, which is being tested for further leads in the killing. The shooter is still at large, but authorities believe that the man responsible for Thompson’s assassination was caught on security camera footage from a New York City […]
A federal district court on Friday upheld the U.S. Naval Academy’s use of race-conscious admissions policies, rejecting a challenge brought by the same group that succeeded in the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision striking down affirmative action in higher education. U.S. Senior District Judge Richard Bennett, nominated by former President George W. Bush, ruled that the academy’s policies […]
Syrian civilians are fleeing the city of Homs as rebel forces march within a few miles of its parameter — a strategic point to capture in their campaign against Damascus. Thousands of residents began leaving Homs by car and on foot after soldiers from the Hayat Tahrir al Sham insurgent group captured several towns near […]
