Ousted Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, are set to appear Thursday in a Manhattan federal courtroom for the first time since their January arrest, as their legal team pushes to have sweeping drug trafficking charges dismissed. At the center of the hearing is a dispute over whether the U.S. government has […]
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) introduced legislation on Thursday requiring professional sports team owners to give local governments and investors a chance to buy their teams before relocating. Dubbed the Home Team Act, the bill would limit team owners from moving their franchise across state lines or into new metro areas […]
Thursday’s Washington Secrets comes to you from CPAC, just outside Dallas. We’re here even if Donald Trump and Sen. John Cornyn are giving it a wide berth. Today, we interview the attendees who very much want the attacks on the Iranian regime to continue, and we get a pretty big clue about who CPAC will […]
A naval drone struck a Turkish oil tanker carrying Russian crude oil in the Black Sea near Turkey’s Bosphorus Strait on Thursday. Turkey’s minister of transportation and infrastructure, Abdulkadir Uraloglu, confirmed the incident to local media on Thursday. The oil-carrying vessel, the Altura, was sailing from Novorossiysk, Russia, to Istanbul when it was hit by […]
The White House’s social media accounts have shared vague videos hinting at something “launching soon.” The first video, posted on X on Wednesday night, features a video of someone pointing their phone camera down at their feet and includes a Snapchat banner that reads, “Sound on.” “It’s launching soon, right?” Someone in the video says. […]
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) was the sole Democrat to vote against his party in Wednesday’s vote to reopen the government as the partial shutdown stretches into its 41st day. “The only thing we’re doing is we’re punishing people,” Fetterman said on NewsNation’s CUOMO Wednesday night. The 41-day shutdown is close to breaking the longest shutdown […]
Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick’s (D-FL) political future will be at play in a rare public ethics hearing on Thursday, after she was accused of carrying out a multimillion-dollar laundering scheme involving Federal Emergency Management Agency funds. The House Ethics Committee is considering the case this week. Members will determine whether accusations that Cherfilus-McCormick stole $5 million […]
Virginia will guarantee nearly its entire workforce “the right” to paid family and medical leave, pending Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s (D-VA) signature on new legislation that would establish a costly worker assistance program open to almost all state residents — including, potentially, illegal immigrants. With complete Democratic control of the state government, the Virginia legislature voted […]
The Justice Department under the Trump administration escalated its efforts this week to strip citizenship from individuals in the United States who obtained it through fraud, securing two denaturalizations this week and filing a third case tied to alleged marriage fraud. Attorney General Pam Bondi said the actions reflect a broader push by the Trump […]
Washington Examiner investigations editor Sarah Bedford said Democrats don’t seem to act as if they will face serious consequences from voters for the ongoing shutdown. The Department of Homeland Security shutdown has lasted almost six weeks, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) on Wednesday rejected the latest offer to fund it. He told the […]
