House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) announced Wednesday that Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, will sit for a deposition next month. “I agree we need to hear from Ghislaine Maxwell,” said Comer. “We’ve been trying to get her in for a deposition, her lawyers have been saying that […]
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) on Wednesday backtracked a leaked letter to a constituent to support proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. A letter from Grassley’s office began circulating online Tuesday. While the name of the constituent is blacked out, it is clear that Grassley was writing in response to a constituent […]
Washington Examiner Executive Editor Bob Cusack said on Tuesday that President Donald Trump‘s One Big Beautiful Bill Act is facing mass scrutiny ahead of the midterm elections. Cusack said it was a “monumental achievement” for Trump and the Republican Party to pass this legislation, given the party’s slim majority in the House. However, the new […]
President Donald Trump marked the first year of his second term with a lengthy press conference, rattling off his achievements and lamenting his failure to break through on the economy. “Maybe I have bad public relations people, but we’re not getting it across,” Trump said of his economic performance. “I don’t like to do this, […]
Washington, D.C., and the surrounding area are set to receive an unusually high amount of snow this weekend, as a massive winter storm makes its way across the United States. Several inches of snow and frigid temperatures are expected to hit the Beltway region, potentially lasting from Saturday through Monday. As the snowstorm materializes closer […]
TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court sentenced a man who admitted to assassinating former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to life imprisonment on Wednesday. The case has revealed decades of cozy ties between Japan’s governing party and a controversial South Korean church. Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, earlier admitted to killing Abe in July 2022 as the former prime […]
President Donald Trump singled out Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney during his Davos speech, deriding him as “ungrateful” in his own speech. In a free-wheeling speech on Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump touted his accomplishments during his first year back in office and reiterated his grievances with the NATO alliance. […]
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent dismissed Denmark as “irrelevant” on Wednesday after its pension operator threatened to pull its investments from the United States. As the European Union continues to search for a response to President Donald Trump’s desire to acquire Greenland and the resulting tariffs, Denmark’s pension operator, AkademikerPension, announced on Tuesday that it would […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is holding a press conference with House GOP leadership on Wednesday at 10 a.m. The briefing comes as Congress pushes to pass all 12 appropriations bills before the partial government shutdown deadline next Friday. The House will have to pass four more spending bills before sending them to the Senate […]
Independent journalist Nick Shirley, who sparked a national firestorm with his findings on Minnesota‘s “billion-dollar-fraud,” will testify at 10 a.m. on Wednesday before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance. The hearing is titled, “When Public Funds Are Abused: Addressing Fraud and the Theft of Taxpayer Dollars.” MINNESOTA ATTORNEY GENERAL KEITH ELLISON […]
