Secretary of State Marco Rubio is the United States’s top diplomat, but his recent engagement with the country’s two most prominent foreign policy priorities has appeared to be from the sidelines. Presidential envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff were in the spotlight during the latest round of peace negotiations between the U.S., Ukraine, and Russia […]
As House Democrats retake the majority in January, they have the opportunity to play by a different set of rules in the lower chamber. The rules package for the next Congress will be introduced in the coming weeks, as Democrats are set to hold at least 255 seats in the House and will be able […]
ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith interviewed President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday, after which he immediately took himself out of the running for the open White House press secretary position. Smith, often floated as an extreme long-shot presidential candidate, briefly spoke to reporters after the interview, which he said will air on […]
White House counsel Will Scharf on Thursday singled out a landmark Supreme Court ruling expanding President Donald Trump’s authority over independent federal agencies as the judicial victory he is proudest of helping secure, calling it the correction of a “historic constitutional wrong.” Speaking at the Federalist Society’s annual National Lawyers Convention in Washington on Thursday […]
Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) launched an investigation into Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday, citing allegations that he lied during his Senate confirmation hearings last year. The two Democrats accused the HHS secretary of failing to tell the truth about a 2019 trip he took to […]
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals deleted a post calling on a local restaurant in Washington, D.C., to cancel its foie gras dinner planned for Thursday night in light of a fatal shooting earlier in the day. The animal advocacy organization tied Thursday morning’s shooting in the Logan Circle neighborhood to Mallard’s foie gras-themed […]
A shooting in Washington, D.C.’s Logan Circle neighborhood Thursday morning left one person dead and four others wounded after a gunman shot someone inside a fitness center before barricading himself in a nearby apartment, where he later died after shooting himself. The suspected shooter was identified as Matt Lambert, according to NBC News4. D.C. police […]
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is in the hot seat following reports about his actions involving the American chip giant Nvidia. Lutnick has surpassed both War Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio as the prediction markets’ top pick for the next Cabinet Secretary to depart the Trump administration. On Kalshi Thursday, Lutnick’s chances […]
Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York highlighted division over whether to escalate military action against Iran or pursue a diplomatic solution. “There is a debate between the ‘finish it off’ crowd, who wants more major combat operations for some period of time to finish the conflict, and the ‘let the sanctions, let the blockade […]
The 2013 murder of 8-year-old Gabriel Fernandez shocked California, exposing a horrifying pattern of child abuse and a succession of failures by the agencies entrusted with protecting him. Despite repeated warnings and visits from social workers, Gabriel endured months of abuse before his death on May 22, 2013, becoming the victim of one of the […]
