A Florida jury found that CNN defamed Navy veteran Zachary Young with an on-air report featuring his business. Young sued the network in 2021 after it ran a segment on contractors profiting off refugees trying to flee Afghanistan in the United States’s 2021 withdrawal, which included his business. He argued that CNN harmed his business […]
The modern presidency has been lucky to have several chief executives ranked among the greatest. And of course, it’s had some of the “worst,” as seen in the cellar rankings of outgoing President Joe Biden. But it also has something unique in America’s 236 years since George Washington first stepped into the job. In President-elect […]
South Carolina lawmakers are calling for the state treasurer to be impeached after an independent audit found that a suspected $1.8 billion thought to be in a state bank account never existed. The results of the audit, released earlier this week, found that $1.6 billion of the $1.8 billion believed to have existed was the […]
CNN is set to banish longtime anchor and former White House correspondent Jim Acosta to the “Siberia of television news,” according to a report from a former colleague. Acosta, known to conservatives as an annoyance to President-elect Donald Trump, will see his program CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta moved from 10 a.m. to midnight, ex-CNN senior […]
Vivek Ramaswamy — biotech billionaire, former presidential candidate, and President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to co-head the newly-minted Department of Government Efficiency — is set to announce his bid for the 2026 Ohio gubernatorial race, sources familiar with the matter confirmed to the Washington Examiner. “The statement is drafted. It is ready,” a political operative with Ramaswamy […]
(The Center Square) — Credit rating agency S&P placed a credit watch warning on Los Angeles’s general obligation and municipal improvement lease revenue bonds, signaling at least a one-in-two chance that the agency could “take a negative rating action during the next 90 days.” L.A.s general obligation bonds are currently rated at AA, while its […]
(The Center Square) – Congressman Kevin Kiley has introduced a bill to Congress that would strip the California Coastal Commission of much of its powers, citing its recent blocking of a Los Angeles Department of Water and Power request to upgrade wooden power poles to protect a now-burned plant. “This is why I’m introducing a bill to […]
U.S. Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens has been replaced at the federal law enforcement organization, and the Trump administration has selected Texas’s top border official, Mike Banks, to fill his boots starting Monday. The Washington Examiner confirmed Friday morning that Banks will start his role at the 20,000-person Border Patrol during “Trump’s swearing-in” at the Capitol on […]
President-elect Donald Trump‘s reported plans to sign an executive order making cryptocurrency a top priority for the administration could clear mountains of legal troubles currently playing out. The executive order, which could be signed on Trump’s first day, is rumored to create an advisory board of industry leaders to guide government agencies, could include guidance […]
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said Friday that banning TikTok is the act of an “authoritarian” nation. “I’ve never been in favor of banning speech,” Paul told Fox News’s Fox & Friends. “About 170 million Americans use this app, and the interesting thing is, occasionally, the people who want to ban TikTok will say, ‘The Chinese […]
