Washington Examiner’s commentary writer Tiana Lowe Doescher said President Donald Trump should use tariffs to “embrace our allies” and work against China, giving the allies “favorable” trade deals. Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese signed an $8.5 billion critical minerals deal on Monday at the White House. Doescher said Trump’s tariffs are “not really” […]

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) gave reporters a brief history lesson on White House renovations during a Wednesday morning press conference, adding that those who oppose President Donald Trump’s ballroom renovation “have Trump Derangement Syndrome.” Johnson addressed reporters in his 22nd press briefing during the second-longest government shutdown in U.S. history. House GOP leaders repeatedly […]

Former special counsel Jack Smith’s legal team acknowledged that media reports were a key factor behind his 2023 decision to subpoena the phone records of nine Republican lawmakers, a revelation that could add new fuel to GOP accusations of political targeting. Smith’s attorneys, Lanny Breuer and Peter Koski, defended the subpoenas as “entirely proper, lawful, […]

A Long Island Democrat running for district attorney against a GOP incumbent has sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Nassau County Republican Committee for tying her to New York City‘s Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani in an ad. In the letter sent earlier this month, Democrat Nicole Aloise’s lawyer described the attack ads as “completely […]