A congressional committee investigating the events of Jan. 6, 2021, on Monday requested more information surrounding Secret Service agents who appeared to miss a pipe bomb planted in Washington, D.C., during their security sweep of the area. Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), who heads the House select subcommittee on Jan. 6, asked to examine transcripts of […]
Top House Democrats pressured Maryland’s state government on Monday to redistrict the state’s congressional map to ensure a Democratic majority in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2026. “We can redistrict to make Maryland House seats more competitive in a way that counters the Trump national steamroller,” the letter written by Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) […]
EXCLUSIVE — Texas will soon begin looking into whether Mexican cartels have attempted to build tunnels under the U.S.-Mexico border to facilitate drug and human smuggling into state-owned land, the Washington Examiner has learned. Texas General Land Office Commissioner Dawn Buckingham directed her office on Monday to work with Customs and Border Protection to learn about […]
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is demanding a vote on his amendment to strike hemp-ban language from a part of the GOP-proposed deal that could end the government shutdown. Eight Democrats joined with GOP senators to support a Republican-led stopgap funding deal Sunday, which includes a continuing resolution to reopen the government through Jan. 30 and […]
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg condemned President Donald Trump’s criticism of air traffic controllers. Buttigieg responded to Trump’s Truth Social post Monday after the president floated a “$10,000 bonus” for air traffic controllers who continued working through the now 41-day government shutdown, and gave those who walked off the job a “negative mark.” “The President […]
The Senate was working to fast-track the stopgap funding deal to reopen the government on Monday after clearing its first procedural hurdle the prior evening. There was cautious optimism among senators and aides that a bipartisan timing agreement could be reached to bypass what would otherwise be days of procedural hurdles that could further draw […]
President Donald Trump’s sweeping pardon of Rudy Giuliani, Jeffrey Clark, Mark Meadows, and more than 70 other allies involved in efforts to challenge the 2020 election could upend the legal landscape for a handful of lingering state prosecutions tied to the so-called “alternate electors” plot. The broad clemency proclamation, signed Nov. 7 and posted online […]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) wholeheartedly defended Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) leadership on Monday, after eight members of the Democratic caucus supported advancing a short-term funding patch over the weekend. Jeffries, when asked during a press conference whether he believes Schumer is effective and should remain as the Senate’s minority leader, simply […]
A bus carrying over 30 teenagers and adults on their way back home from church camp overturned on a road in Southern California, sending at least 20 people to nearby hospitals. The bus was heading toward Orange County from the San Bernardino Mountains when it crashed around 9 p.m. Sunday local time on State Route […]
Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) will retire from the House at the end of her term after more than 10 years in the chamber. The 80-year-old New Jersey congresswoman, who has served in the House since 2015, said her retirement is an effort “to pass the torch to the next leader.” “I believe in giving […]
