ESPN commentator STEPHEN A. SMITH who clashed publicly with President Trump this summer, said Friday that the president answered every question during a White House dinner Thursday night with comedian Bill Maher and musician Kid Rock.
The Justice Department has asked the federal judge who yelled at DOJ lawyers in a hearing Monday to remove herself from the case, just days before she demanded senior officials appear and testify about whether President Trump prodded them to cut down trees so he could rebuild the golf course on East Potomac Park on the National Mall.
Washington Times reporters Susan Ferrechio and Seth McLaughlin explain how Trump's legislative agenda would hit the brakes and why the White House would likely lean even harder on executive orders.
Ever the optimist, Speaker Mike Johnson said he believes Republicans will hold on to their U.S. House majority, defying a surge of Democratic momentum in the final stretch of the midterm elections that will determine control of Congress.
GIRDWOOD, Alaska — Dan Sullivan isn’t running away from President Donald Trump like so many other vulnerable Republicans. He’s betting that walking the line...
There aren’t a lot of distinguished biographies of famous historians. The reading public is largely interested in their works, rather than their personal lives, and while some achieved a certain fame or honor in their time — Thomas Babington Macaulay, Marc Bloch, A.J.P. Taylor, Charles A. Beard, a handful of others — details of scholarly […]
Even before his nomination to the Supreme Court by President George W. Bush in 2005, Justice Samuel Alito was dogged by the nickname “Scalito.” The lazy conflation of Alito with Justice Antonin Scalia, both conservative jurists of Italian-American heritage, was irresistible to journalists who saw the court as a battleground for politics by other means, […]
Josh Goforth, a storyteller and acoustic musician in his 40s, stood at the microphone beneath the Courthouse Tent in Jonesborough, Tennessee. He had decided to start his set with a song, and since the tent was just yards from the railroad tracks, he chose a bluegrass standard called “I’m Bound to Ride.” It follows a […]
On Nov. 3, Americans will elect a new House and one-third of the Senate. By then, the war with Iran will be entering its ninth month. It began before dawn on Feb. 28, when U.S. Central Command opened Operation Epic Fury and Israeli aircraft began the companion campaign Israel called Operation Roaring Lion. A spring […]
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP) recently released a report making serious accusations against the nation’s two largest teachers unions. Specifically, the committee accuses the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers of “promoting dangerous ideology instead of advancing our children’s learning.” The report details, among other things, using schoolchildren […]
