The White House is growing “optimistic” it can resolve a dispute with Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) that is threatening the confirmation of President Donald Trump’s nominees at the worst possible moment for Republicans: right before they lose control of the Senate. A senior White House official told the Washington Examiner on Thursday that talks with […]
President Donald Trump’s policy to stop enforcing a gun law has been a gift to conservative Second Amendment advocates — and, now, to three alleged leftist militants searched by Alabama police. Grand jurors indicted roommates Levi Belcher, Anthony Slota, and Tadashi Erekson on Oct. 5 after officials linked Belcher to online threats against immigration agents […]
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) said Thursday he was “interested” in President Donald Trump’s renewed push for a $350 billion military funding bill using only Republican votes but stopped short of committing to its passage before Democrats take control of Congress in January. The legislation would mark the third so-called reconciliation bill of Trump’s […]
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is the United States’s top diplomat, but his recent engagement with the country’s two most prominent foreign policy priorities has appeared to be from the sidelines. Presidential envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff were in the spotlight during the latest round of peace negotiations between the U.S., Ukraine, and Russia […]
As House Democrats retake the majority in January, they have the opportunity to play by a different set of rules in the lower chamber. The rules package for the next Congress will be introduced in the coming weeks, as Democrats are set to hold at least 255 seats in the House and will be able […]
ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith interviewed President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday, after which he immediately took himself out of the running for the open White House press secretary position. Smith, often floated as an extreme long-shot presidential candidate, briefly spoke to reporters after the interview, which he said will air on […]
White House counsel Will Scharf on Thursday singled out a landmark Supreme Court ruling expanding President Donald Trump’s authority over independent federal agencies as the judicial victory he is proudest of helping secure, calling it the correction of a “historic constitutional wrong.” Speaking at the Federalist Society’s annual National Lawyers Convention in Washington on Thursday […]
Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) launched an investigation into Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday, citing allegations that he lied during his Senate confirmation hearings last year. The two Democrats accused the HHS secretary of failing to tell the truth about a 2019 trip he took to […]
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals deleted a post calling on a local restaurant in Washington, D.C., to cancel its foie gras dinner planned for Thursday night in light of a fatal shooting earlier in the day. The animal advocacy organization tied Thursday morning’s shooting in the Logan Circle neighborhood to Mallard’s foie gras-themed […]
A shooting in Washington, D.C.’s Logan Circle neighborhood Thursday morning left one person dead and four others wounded after a gunman shot someone inside a fitness center before barricading himself in a nearby apartment, where he later died after shooting himself. The suspected shooter was identified as Matt Lambert, according to NBC News4. D.C. police […]
