Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the Defense Department is considering taking an equity stake in defense contractors that already receive significant business from the Pentagon. “There’s a monstrous discussion about defense. I mean, Lockheed Martin makes 97% of their revenue from the U.S. government. They are, basically, an arm of the U.S. government,” Lutnick said […]
Hyundai boosted its investment in the United States by $26 billion on the same day South Korean President Lee Jae Myung visited President Donald Trump at the White House. In a Monday press release, Hyundai Motor Group announced that it would raise its planned investments through 2028 from the $21 billion pledged in March to […]
A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that a Pennsylvania requirement for mail-in ballots with missing or incorrect dates to be tossed out is unconstitutional, upholding a lower district court ruling. A panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld a March ruling from a federal district court in Pennsylvania that […]
The firearms industry urged the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday to back President Donald Trump’s support for the Second Amendment by rooting out the Biden administration’s anti-gun rules and secret deals with liberal gun-banning groups. In a letter to FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson, the industry’s trade group said that reversing former President Joe Biden’s actions […]
A federal judge ordered Kari Lake, a Trump loyalist who oversaw the effective shutdown of Voice of America, to submit to questioning under oath over her efforts to dismantle the broadcaster despite legal obligations to continue its operations. U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth said Lake was “verging on contempt of court” after she […]
A Republican-led congressional committee on Monday widened the scope of an investigation into the University of California system after concerns that it allowed antisemitism to fester against Jewish students. The House Education and Workforce Committee requested years of internal documents about antisemitism complaints at three medical universities, including UC Los Angeles and UC San Francisco. […]
(The Center Square) – Washington Solicitor General Noah Purcell is the focus of a Washington State Bar Association complaint alleging misconduct for responding on Attorney General Nick Brown’s behalf in a separate bar complaint, and directly communicating with private law firm Perkins Coie without its attorney’s consent. The complaint comes right after news broke that Brown […]
The Trump administration has threatened to pull millions of dollars of federal funding from blue states California, New Mexico, and Washington unless the states adopt and enforce English language proficiency requirements for commercial truck drivers. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced on Tuesday that the three western states will have 30 days to comply with his […]
Washington, D.C.’s no-homicide streak ended early on Tuesday with a shooting death in the southeast quadrant. Police said a man was found with a gunshot wound at 12:24 a.m. Tuesday — he was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he died. The death ends the Trump administration’s vaunted zero-homicide streak, which began on Aug. 13, […]
It is unclear if Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook showed up for work on Tuesday after President Donald Trump announced he had fired her on Monday evening. Cook, 61, released a statement late Monday night through her attorneys saying she would not step aside and would continue in the role. The Washington Examiner contacted the Fed to […]
