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 […]
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) said Thursday he is not thinking about running for the presidency again in 2028, at least not so soon after the midterm elections. “I think it’s too soon to tell in terms of, like, you know, who’s going to run,” the outgoing governor said on Fox News’s The Faulkner Focus. “I […]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said Thursday that he backs the return of proxy voting for lawmakers who are expectant mothers and new parents. “I certainly will continue to strongly support — and I’m thankful for the leadership of [Reps.] Brittany Pettersen and Sara Jacobs and other members of the House Democratic Caucus in […]
Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha said Iranian plots against the United States have become unprecedented, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent being relocated for his safety. “Well, we took out two levels of Iranian leadership at the beginning of this war, … so you know they would love nothing more than to take out a member […]
SpaceX on Thursday denied Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s claim that Starshield systems are again being throttled in his country, just weeks after Kyiv said similar issues had been resolved. In October, Kyiv reported the first round of restrictions on Starlink and Starshield, SpaceX’s military version of Starlink that Ukraine uses to boost drone-strike missions and […]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) on Thursday did not rule out forcing a government shutdown to see the end of the Iran war. Jeffries was asked during a press conference if he would consider attaching a provision to end the Iran war as a rider to an appropriations bill as Congress heads toward a […]
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) urged the White House on Thursday to release the remaining documents related to the FBI’s discredited investigation into alleged ties between President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and the Russian government, claiming key materials remain classified more than a year after Trump’s order to declassify all documents. Grassley, along […]
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) vowed Thursday to continue investigating corporate donors to President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom after a top Justice Department official accused him of intimidating Americans who support the president. Blumenthal, the incoming chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, pushed back against a warning from Aaron Reitz, the U.S. attorney […]
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested and deported more illegal immigrants in fiscal 2026 than any year on record, according to the Department of Homeland Security. “Fiscal Year 2026 saw the highest number of ICE deportations and arrests for any year in ICE’s history. September 2026 was the best September in ICE’s history in terms […]
Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York said Republicans are bracing for a fight over the next two years after their drastic midterm losses. “I think it’s a realization from virtually all House Republicans that the next two years are going to be one long fight over Donald Trump, over the Trump administration, and there’s […]
