A Long-Island-based women’s roller derby team is challenging a ban on transgender athletes in the New York county that they compete in. Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman’s executive order, which was announced last month and went into effect this month, requires all sports teams to submit their sex assigned at birth should they compete in […]
Lawmakers in New York are looking to repeal a nearly centurylong law that has criminalized adultery in the state. Assemblyman Charles Lavine introduced a bill that would throw out the law, which was enacted in 1907 in an effort to curb the number of divorces, the Associated Press reported. At the time, adultery was the […]
Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) will retire from the House months before his term ends next year, setting up a scenario in which House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) could have a one-seat majority. Gallagher will step down effective April 19, making him the latest in a string of Republicans who have announced they would leave the […]
A motion to vacate House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is on the table, with eyes on the eight House Republicans who joined Democrats in ousting the last speaker to see whether they will save Johnson or vote to remove the chamber’s top leader once again. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) introduced a motion to vacate […]
Former Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel is joining NBC News as an on-air contributor after she resigned from her position within the GOP. McDaniel will add a conservative voice to NBC’s lineup of political analysts. She is also expected to appear on MSNBC, the left-leaning affiliate of the network. “It couldn’t be a more […]
A Democratic senator who is a key player in the TikTok fight on Capitol Hill has seen several of her senior aides depart to work on behalf of the Chinese-owned social media app, records show. Senators on both sides of the aisle raised concerns on Wednesday after receiving a classified briefing from national security officials […]
Catherine, Princess of Wales, has been out of the public eye while she handles a cancer diagnosis, she announced on Friday. Details about what kind of cancer the princess has been diagnosed with have not been disclosed. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER This is a developing story
House Republicans face a basic math problem: with just 219 votes, their majority isn’t very big. That means that if they try to pass legislation along party lines, they can afford basically no defections, at most a single holdout. If House Republicans cannot pass legislation by themselves, they will need to rely on Democratic votes […]
Kyle Rittenhouse shared what went wrong during a Wednesday event at the University of Memphis when protesters disrupted his speech. Rittenhouse appeared on Fox News’s The Ingraham Angle Thursday following his appearance at the Turning Point USA event. He explained that a few minutes into his prepared speech, protesters began heckling him. For the remainder […]
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging a law in Washington, D.C., that allows noncitizens to vote in local but not federal elections. Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, saying that the seven voters who brought the lawsuit “failed […]
