Physician and wellness influencer Dr. Casey Means faced a series of tough questions from Republicans and Democrats during the long-awaited Senate hearing on her nomination to be surgeon general, rounding out President Donald Trump’s public health cabinet. Means, who was nominated by Trump last May, has been a controversial figure for stepping away from traditional […]
Vice President JD Vance confirmed on Wednesday that he is working with the Justice and Treasury Departments to root out fraud nationwide. During the State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Donald Trump announced Vance would lead the administration’s “war on fraud.” “We will get it done,” the president said at one point during his lengthy […]
Vice President JD Vance pushed for Iranian leaders to negotiate seriously with U.S. officials this week, even as the United States is building up the largest force of warships and aircraft in the Middle East. President Donald Trump warned that military action against Iran is possible if negotiations over its nuclear program collapse, but also […]
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers is resigning from his academic and faculty positions at Harvard University over his previous ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Summers, who was president of the university from 2001 to 2006 after his tenure in former President Bill Clinton‘s Cabinet, has been mentioned and shown in photographs released in […]
Washington Examiner senior writer Joe Concha rebuffed the “miserable people” complaining that the United States men’s Olympic hockey team attended the State of the Union Tuesday night. President Donald Trump hosted the U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team on Tuesday after the team scored a 2-1 victory over Canada to win the gold. The team received […]
Congress won’t be leaping into action to pass many of President Donald Trump’s second-year priorities, with the filibuster and quiet GOP opposition standing in the way of bills he requested at his Tuesday State of the Union address. In a nearly two-hour speech, Trump called on lawmakers to codify several policies he’s so far pursued […]
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) this week predicted his Republican primary battle to retain his Texas Senate seat would end in a runoff election with state Attorney General Ken Paxton. Cornyn, Paxton, and Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) are engaged in a bitter three-way battle to win the March 3 primary. Cornyn said this week that he […]
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that courts may place limitations on what a lawyer can discuss with his client during an overnight recess while the client is in the middle of testifying, finding it does not infringe on anyone’s constitutional rights. The high court ruled 9-0 in Villarreal v. Texas that courts may limit discussion […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) told reporters that Rep. Tony Gonzales‘s (R-TX) constituents would be the judges, after the Texas representative’s alleged explicit text messages with a former, now deceased, staffer were revealed. “I’ve said to him publicly and privately, he’s got to address that directly and head on with his constituents,” Johnson said to […]
A coalition of Republican attorneys general from 11 states is asking the Justice Department to conduct a “thorough and exacting” antitrust review of the pending merger between Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery, a deal facing intensifying legal and political pressure. In a letter submitted Tuesday, the state officials say they share concerns made by private […]
