House and Senate leaders Friday asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak before a joint session of Congress, a long-awaited invitation that is expected to cause friction between both parties and within the Democratic conference in particular. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and Senate Minority […]
Questions are being raised about the logistics of now-convicted felon former President Donald Trump’s political future. Thursday, Trump became the first former president to be convicted in a criminal trial after 12 jurors found him guilty of falsifying business records. The jury deliberated for over 11 hours before unanimously reaching their verdict. Here are your […]
A conservative faction of Republican senators on Friday promised to place more hurdles in front of President Joe Biden and Democratic priorities as retribution for former President Donald Trump’s criminal conviction. The vow came a day after Trump’s 34-count felony conviction by a jury in his New York hush money trial, which the GOP senators […]
President Joe Biden claimed on Friday that Hamas is “no longer capable” of carrying out a repeat Oct. 7 attack as he urged the terrorist group to agree to Israel’s latest ceasefire proposal. The admission by the president seemingly represents a new milestone reached by the Israeli military in its efforts to ensure Hamas can […]
Former President Donald Trump gave his first major speech since his historic conviction, both denouncing the verdict and hitting on parts of his campaign message. Symbolically speaking from the spot where he first launched his presidential campaign in 2016, Trump lambasted the verdict against him and bashed President Joe Biden in a longwinded, and at […]
The “other” crime factor in Donald Trump‘s hush money case was a source of scrutiny throughout his trial, and now that the former president has been convicted, legal experts say it could serve as a basis for his appeal. Trump vowed Friday he would bring the appeal on “many different” grounds, and one could be the lack […]
President Joe Biden weighed in on former President Donald Trump‘s guilty verdict Friday afternoon, saying justice was served and should be respected. “It’s reckless, it’s dangerous, and it’s irresponsible for anyone to say this was rigged just because they don’t like the verdict,” Biden said from the White House. “Our justice system has endured for […]
For the second year in a row, President Joe Biden will welcome the Kansas City Chiefs to the White House in celebration of their Super Bowl victory over the San Francisco 49ers. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER The entire team will gather in the South Lawn with Biden, including kicker Harrison […]
Nikki Haley, who campaigned on ending the “chaos” that follows Donald Trump, found herself in a strange position as the former president’s legal troubles exploded on Thursday: a silent supporter. Haley offered her long-sought backing of Trump just eight days before a 12-member New York jury found him guilty of 34 criminal counts of falsifying […]
Mum’s the word on former President Donald Trump’s guilty verdict for most Senate Democrats facing swing-state reelections next year, a departure from their progressive colleagues who welcomed the historic conviction. The strategy on such a contentious issue underscores the potential vulnerabilities presenting more than a half-dozen Democrats in battleground Senate races, any one of which […]
