It was business as usual for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Thursday as he tried to quash speculation about his health and ability to serve out his term following his highly-publicized medical episode.
The House had to punt the agriculture and Food and Drug Administration appropriations bill to after the August recess as several hard-line conservative members and centrist Republican members expressed their displeasure with certain provisions, teeing up a fight to fund the government ahead of the Sept. 30 deadline.
Hours after being handed additional charges in the investigation into his handling of classified documents, former President Donald Trump took to his social media platform to defend himself and ask, "Whatever happened to the Crooked Joe Biden Document’s case?"
What is it with the Left that they want to ban nearly everything that is fun or convenient? Gas stoves, dishwashers, plastic straws, gas cars, snowmobiles, and diving boards. And now the health busybodies want to ban certain cigars.
Age of Danger: Keeping America Safe in an Era of New Superpowers, New Weapons, and New Threats is a just-published book by Andrew Hoehn, senior vice president at the RAND Corporation and former deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy during President George W. Bush's administration, and Thom Shanker, director of the Project for Media and National Security at George Washington University and former New York Times defense correspondent. Shanker talked with Washington Examiner senior writer Jamie McIntyre about the book’s premise: that the U.S. national security establishment has been asleep at the wheel for the past two decades and is badly in need of a course correction.
Former President Donald Trump, leading the Republican primary field in his 2024 comeback bid, will be the keynote speaker at an annual South Carolina GOP event. Trump's top speaking role reflects his dominance in a state long influential in deciding who becomes the party’s nominee.
ANKENY, Iowa — Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) has underscored there were no "benefits" to slavery after Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) escalated tensions with Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) over Florida's new black history teaching standards.