Secretary of State Marco Rubio slammed the United Nations for its silence over Iran’s use of mines in the Strait of Hormuz during a Tuesday afternoon press briefing at the White House. Rubio’s comments came after the State Department announced a U.N. Security Council resolution pressuring Iran to cease attacks, mining, and tolling in the […]

Brendan Carr, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, stressed in a recent letter to lawmakers that the FCC Media Bureau’s approval of the Nexstar-Tegna merger is “not a final action by the full Commission.” The April 13 letter, published by the agency on Tuesday, suggested that the full commission could consider reversing the bureau’s March […]

A federal appeals court questioned the Justice Department’s insistence on Tuesday that a Supreme Court emergency docket ruling from last year settled a lawsuit over the Trump administration’s policy restricting the gender on a person’s passport to his or her biological sex. A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit heard arguments […]

Washington Examiner economics columnist Tiana Lowe Doescher weighed in on the shutdown of Spirit Airlines, suggesting the collapse highlights broader problems with government intervention in the airline industry. “I’m trying to think of a better example of the overzealousness of [Joe] Biden blocking [mergers and acquisitions] and how we are all worse off,” she said […]