The public spat between Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) has simmered after a phone call between her, Johnson, and President Donald Trump. But the New York congresswoman and gubernatorial hopeful has made it clear she believes Johnson has been an ineffective leader. Johnson and Stefanik’s dayslong dispute over her proposed provision […]
EXCLUSIVE — Fiscal hawks are laying out to Senate leadership what it would take for them to drop their objections to a spending bill appropriators hope to begin moving in the coming days. Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Rick Scott (R-FL) met with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) toward the tail end of Republicans’ […]
Special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner’s marathon meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin has not produced a breakthrough, and U.S. officials are acknowledging the bleak impasse. Secretary of State Marco Rubio voiced a sense of powerlessness regarding the conflict in an interview with Sean Hannity on Tuesday, stating that the administration has been trying […]
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) filed a bid to be the Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency on Wednesday. Burchett said he is qualified for the position since he has the will to target wasteful spending and the knowledge to know where funding can be found. “It’s a long shot but I […]
House Oversight Committee Democrats released more files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including pictures of his house on his infamous private island. “Oversight Dems have received never-before-seen photos and videos of Jeffrey Epstein’s private island that are a harrowing look behind Epstein’s closed doors,” the Democrats wrote on X. “See for […]
Last month’s Virginia election of a new liberal governor, attorney general, and Democratic legislative super majority sparked a run on gun shops by many fearful of a new wave of attacks on Second Amendment rights. Black Friday purchases and November FBI gun background checks showed a dramatic spike in the commonwealth, which typically is among […]
Several deans at the University of Virginia have written a letter to the school’s governing board asking it to delay its presidential search. The letter follows a public dispute between the current and future governors of Virginia over the timeline to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of former University President James Ryan. Ryan stepped […]
One person is dead after a targeted shooting on Wednesday at the MGM National Harbor Hotel and Casino, a luxury resort in Oxon Hill, Maryland, near Washington, D.C. An unidentified suspect opened fire Wednesday afternoon in the food court at MGM National Harbor just before noon. Immediately after, the gunman fled the establishment by car. […]
Families of the victims who died in last month’s deadly UPS plane crash in Louisville, Kentucky, filed the first wrongful death lawsuits against the shipper on Wednesday. Both lawsuits, filed in Kentucky state court, argue UPS and other defendants should have known that the McDonnell Douglas MD-11 airliner “was in disrepair or was otherwise dangerous […]
The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed former special counsel Jack Smith on Wednesday for a closed-door deposition, escalating the GOP’s investigation into the federal prosecutions Smith brought against President Donald Trump during the Biden administration. House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) directed Smith to appear on Dec. 17, according to the subpoena letter sent to […]
