A federal judge has found that the suspect who allegedly murdered Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska last year on a light rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina, is incompetent to stand trial for the time being. U.S. Attorney Russ Ferguson confirmed the news on Tuesday, telling reporters that Decarlos Brown Jr. will be hospitalized for treatment […]
Minnesota has terminated the billing privileges of thousands of Medicaid providers flagged as “high risk” for fraud after the Trump administration threatened to withhold $2 billion in Medicaid payments flowing to the state over mismanagement concerns. In order to release the funds, the cleanup of Minnesota’s Medicaid enrollment records was required by the U.S. Centers […]
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Iran shot down an American Apache attack helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz Monday night, and that the United States would respond to the attack. Trump has fought to hold together a fragile ceasefire between Iran, Israel, and the U.S. for more than a month, even amid renewed attacks […]
Mayor Muriel Bowser offered a clear show of support for Councilman Kenyan McDuffie on Tuesday but stopped short of endorsing a successor, while warning that Washington, D.C., risks repeating financial mistakes that once pushed the city to the brink of bankruptcy. Speaking at an Axios AM Live event, Bowser praised McDuffie when asked about the […]
EXCLUSIVE — President Donald Trump‘s claim that he’s speaking to the major American artificial intelligence companies about creating a “partnership” with the federal government caught some of the leading firms by surprise, four people familiar tell the Washington Examiner. On Friday, Trump told reporters that he’d spoken to AI executives about making the American public […]
A Sudanese immigrant was arrested after a video showed him trying to behead a man in the middle of a Belfast street in the United Kingdom, drawing national outrage. Police were called at around 10:30 p.m. local time on Monday. A graphic video posted on social media showed the suspect, estimated to be in his […]
Welcome to Tuesday’s edition of Washington Secrets. Today we reveal how Donald Trump’s top data lieutenant has secured a deal to collect data from World Cup soccer fans in Washington, D.C., and we ask whether the president has more in common with Joe Biden than he would care to admit … Brad Parscale was the […]
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), who is running for governor of South Carolina, told a GOP primary opponent to drop out of the race on Tuesday as voters across the state head to the polls. Mace called Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette a disgrace to “women everywhere” and to South Carolina, citing an incident between two rival […]
Washington Examiner columnist Guy Benson blasted California’s election system following the state’s primary elections, saying, “It’s pathetic, this is how they roll in California.” Benson emphasized that, a week after California’s June 2 primary election, the state is still working through hundreds of thousands of unprocessed ballots. “I was looking at the estimated number of […]
Israel on Tuesday called sanctions imposed by several countries over violence by settlers in the West Bank “disgraceful” and accused foreign governments of attempting to dictate political outcomes in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In a statement posted by the Israeli Foreign Ministry, the government said it “firmly rejects the disgraceful measures adopted by foreign governments against […]
