President Donald Trump said he wasn’t aware of Democratic Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman, who a gunman assassinated in June. Speaking with reporters in the Oval Office, Trump was asked by a reporter whether, in retrospect, he thinks it would have been fitting to lower the flag in honor of Hortman, given the tributes to the […]

An appeals court rejected President Donald Trump’s effort to remove Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook from her position. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled 2-1 against Trump’s bid for emergency relief to fire Cook before the two-day Fed meeting on Tuesday. The court ruled that she will stay in […]

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) held a memorial Monday night to honor the life of conservative activist Charlie Kirk after he was assassinated last week in Utah.  Johnson, along with House leadership and other members of Congress, gathered to deliver remarks and prayers on the “life and legacy” of Kirk. The Majority of the Republican […]

The Washington Post fired a longtime staff member and columnist after she posted a fake Charlie Kirk quote and other inflammatory rhetoric just hours after the conservative activist’s assassination. On Monday, columnist Karen Attiah revealed that she had been fired by the Washington Post the week before. In a Substack post, she claimed she was […]