The Trump administration fired Federal Emergency Management Agency workers who signed an open letter slamming the agency’s current direction, according to a report. On Monday, 182 current and former FEMA employees published an open letter denouncing President Donald Trump’s decision to scale back the agency and shift natural disaster response resources to the states, claiming […]
President Donald Trump is once again dominating the political stage, turning clashes with Democratic governors over crime and redistricting into an early preview of the 2028 race. A growing roster of blue-state governors is openly defying Trump’s agenda, placing themselves at the center of some of the most high-profile fights of his second term. His […]
President Donald Trump is often seen as the opposite of a Bush Republican, but this week, he is focused on a set of issues that dominated the Bush administration — George H.W., not George W. Trump proposed the death penalty for convicted murderers in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. His Monday executive orders were designed to […]
Devon Hogan Flanagan, a special assistant attorney general in Rhode Island, who was caught on video berating police officers trying to remove her from a restaurant after she was asked to leave, has been placed on unpaid leave for six months. Flanagan was repeatedly heard shouting to police officers, “I’m an AG” and “You’re going […]
A liberal activist working to kill legislation that would prevent citizens of adversarial nations, including China, from purchasing land near military bases is married to a woman with multiple links to the Chinese government, a Washington Examiner review has found. Wess Miller is a senior staffer at a Texas-based consulting firm who has taken a […]
Two of California’s most prominent Republicans have returned to the political stage to oppose Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D-CA) statewide campaign to get voters to approve new congressional districts. Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger are using their considerable clout to raise money and speak out against Proposition 50, a November ballot […]
Transgender bathroom policies — and their precipitating controversies — at two Virginia public school districts are taking center stage in the contentious gubernatorial face-off between GOP Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears and former Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger. The school policy in Arlington County, an affluent Northern Virginia area, allowed a serial sex offender, who identifies as […]
House Republicans are ramping up their push to protect one of the narrowest majorities in modern history, sending Rep. Brian Jack (R-GA) on a recruitment swing on Tuesday through two Democratic-held House districts that President Donald Trump carried in the last election. Republicans currently hold a 219–212 edge in the House, with three Democratic seats […]
Prosecutors told a judge on Tuesday that Nadine Menendez deserves a seven-year prison sentence for her role in a massive bribery plot that cost her husband his senator office and landed him in jail for over a decade. Menendez, 58, the wife of disgraced former Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), had an integral part in the […]
President Donald Trump’s legal team filed an appeal with the New York Court of Appeals, asking the state to erase the remaining fines levied by state Attorney General Letitia James’s lawsuit against him. James’s civil fraud lawsuit, and its hefty fines against the president, were thrown out last week. The lawsuit alleged Trump inflated his […]