President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his administration would seek the death penalty for murder convictions in Washington, D.C. The proposal, delivered during Trump’s seventh Cabinet meeting at the White House, came weeks after the president federalized the Metropolitan Police Department and mobilized hundreds of National Guard troops and other federal law enforcement assets in […]
President Donald Trump acknowledged the difficulties Republicans have encountered pitching his One Big Beautiful Bill to the public before next year’s midterm elections. Trump told his Cabinet on Tuesday during a meeting at the White House that he was no longer going to “use” that description amid poor polling for the tax and spending legislation […]
MINNEAPOLIS — Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin retracted a pro-Israel resolution that easily passed committee after a conflicting resolution that called to recognize a state of Palestine failed. The about-face reflects the divisions on display at the DNC summer meeting between pro-Israel Democrats and the left-leaning younger generation of the anti-Israel base. “We can disagree […]
Colorado state legislators plan to address part of their $750 million budget gap caused by federal tax changes by changing the state’s business tax policy. In a special session, lawmakers said the new changes will generate approximately $244 million in new revenue. The Democratic-controlled legislature this week passed five bills aimed at business tax deductions […]
President Donald Trump is expected to name Dan Scavino, his longest-serving top aide, to lead the White House Office of Presidential Personnel, a critical role that oversees the vetting and hiring of the president’s political appointees. Scavino, confirmed to the Washington Examiner by White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, will replace outgoing PPO Director Sergio […]
The Department of Justice requested to dismiss a complaint filed by Proud Boys organizers, who sued the government over their prosecution following the Jan. 6 attack. In June, five Proud Boys leaders — Enrique Tarrio, Zachary Rehl, Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, and Dominic Pezzola — sued the DOJ, FBI Special Agent Nicole Miller, and several […]
Former special counsel Jack Smith made his first public statement in months amid a Hatch Act investigation, rebutting accusations of wrongdoing. Smith was prompted to respond after Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) persuaded the Office of Special Counsel to launch a Hatch Act violation investigation into Smith. Smith and his lawyers, Lanny Breuer and Peter Koski, rejected […]
Tuesday marked four years since the Abbey Gate attack, a suicide bombing that took the lives of 13 service members during the withdrawal of U.S. troops at the end of the Afghanistan War. In 2021, then-President Joe Biden removed U.S. troops from Afghanistan following the first Trump administration’s negotiated plan with Taliban leaders to end […]
Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage promised to end the “invasion” of asylum-seekers with mass deportations and remigration policies if elected. Farage, who previously opposed mass remigration in the United Kingdom as a “political impossibility,” spoke from a hangar at Oxford Airport in London as he announced his policy plan to deport approximately 600,000 illegal migrants in […]
A federal judge appointed by President Donald Trump has tossed a lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice against every judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland over a blanket order slowing deportations. U.S. District Judge Thomas Cullen on Tuesday dismissed a June lawsuit filed against the judges over a standing […]
