Virginia voters on Tuesday approved a referendum to redraw the state’s congressional map in a way that would give Democrats a 10-1 advantage, marking the latest front in a nationwide push by both parties to tilt the House battlefield in their favor. The Associated Press called the race in favor of the referendum at 8:49 […]
Former U.S. Capitol Police officer Shauni Kerkhoff filed a lawsuit against Blaze Media for a report it ran suggesting she planted the pipe bombs outside the Democratic and Republican National Committee headquarters ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. The outlet ran a story titled “Former Capitol Police officer a forensic match for Jan. […]
A federal grand jury has indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on 11 counts, including wire and bank fraud, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced on Tuesday evening. “In the Middle District of Alabama, a grand jury returned an 11-count indictment charging the Southern Poverty Law Center with six counts of wire fraud, four counts […]
Senate Republicans took another step Tuesday toward reopening the Department of Homeland Security, voting to debate a blueprint that would fund three years of immigration enforcement and help put to rest a monthslong dispute with the Democrats. In a matter of hours, Republicans released and then brought to the floor a plan that would provide […]
EXCLUSIVE — Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) is hopeful for a 2028 GOP ticket of Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Luna, the first member of Congress to endorse Vance for president in 2028, told the Washington Examiner that it would be a tough choice if Republicans had to pick between […]
White House officials in the Biden administration privately praised Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis as an “ICON” while coordinating with her office during the now-defunct racketeering case against President Donald Trump, according to internal emails released Tuesday by Senate investigators. The email chains, made public by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and […]
President Donald Trump has nominated University of Minnesota Professor Christopher Phelan to lead the Council of Economic Advisers. The White House announced Tuesday that Trump has nominated Phelan, who specializes in macroeconomic theory, to be chairman of the CEA. If confirmed by the Senate, he will replace acting Chairman Pierre Yared, who will return to […]
President Donald Trump is questioning whether his relationship with China’s paramount leader is as strong as he thought after Beijing allegedly tried to smuggle a “gift” to Iran. The president, speaking to CNBC’s Squawk Box on Tuesday, said the United States “caught a ship yesterday that had some things on it, which wasn’t very nice — […]
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Tuesday announced a criminal investigation into OpenAI’s ChatGPT, due to concerns that the platform aided the suspect accused of carrying out a fatal school shooting in the state. Uthmeier initially launched an inquiry into ChatGPT earlier this month, amid allegations that it helped suspect Phoenix Ikner carry out the […]
EXCLUSIVE — Missouri State University is facing allegations that its “bias response” policy infringes on the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights of its students, including by monitoring students’ social media posts for engagement with content that university officials deem to be offensive, the Washington Examiner has learned. Defending Education, a conservative advocacy group, filed a […]
