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The Terrorism Confusion in the Caribbean

The president of the United States has no unilateral authority to use military force in the absence of a legitimate armed conflict.

A West Coast Mamdani

Like her East Coast counterpart, Seattle’s mayor-elect fails to understand how wealth and scarcity...

Washington Times Weekly: Jobs down, shopping up, diving headfirst into the holiday season

I'm George Gerbo and welcome to Washington Times Weekly, where we get a chance to sit down with our reporters and talk about their coverage of the latest news and events. And joining me today is Washington Times National Reporter Tom Howell Jr.

Democrats are choosing cartels over Americans

I recently came across an amusing meme: President Donald Trump, dressed as a magician, lifts his wand and declares, “For my next trick, I’ll make Democrats support the drug cartels.” And indeed, he has. Over the past 10 months, Trump has forced Democrats into defending some of the most indefensible, anti-American positions imaginable: fierce opposition […]

The Democrats double tap hoax exposed

It is not a coincidence that the six congressional Democrats released a video urging active military members to “refuse illegal orders” just days before billboards saying the same thing went up outside of U.S. Southern Command in Florida and Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Nor is it a coincidence that just days after that, media […]

90 ex-House members call for stock trading ban

Ninety former House members signed a letter calling on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) to pass legislation prohibiting members of Congress and their families from owning or trading individual stocks. In a letter, published Tuesday, the former elected officials urged the top Republican and Democrat in the House to...

House Dems say Trump administration is scapegoating an admiral

Top House Democrats are accusing the Trump administration of scapegoating a Navy admiral to deflect blame for potential war crimes. The Democrats contend the White House decision to single out Adm. Frank Bradley as the person who ordered a “double-tap” strike against suspected drug runners in the Caribbean is part of a broader pattern of...

ESPN’s Paul Finebaum says he won’t run for Alabama Senate seat

ESPN's Paul Finebaum says he will not run to replace Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R) in the Senate, ending months of speculation that the sports media personality could make a foray into politics. “I have been deeply moved by so many people in Alabama who have reached out encouraging me to run for the United States...

National Guard shooting suspect hit with murder, assault charges

Related video: DC Bureau: Immigration Changes after National Guard Shooting The man accused of shooting two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., killing one of them, has been formally charged with offenses including murder and assault, court filings show. Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, was charged Tuesday in D.C. Superior Court with counts stemming from last week’s attack on two members of the...

What to know about Rahmanullah Lakanwal, suspect in National Guard shooting

Two members of the West Virginia National Guard were shot close to the White House last week, sparking outrage from the political right and a crackdown on immigration from the Trump administration. The suspect allegedly behind the shooting, Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal, is facing a first-degree murder charge in the wake of U.S. Army Spc....

GOP senator: Trump pardon of convicted Honduran president sends ‘horrible message’

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said that President Trump’s controversial decision to pardon former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was serving a 45-year sentence for conspiring to import cocaine, sends a “horrible message.” Tillis, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Trump’s pardon of Hernandez, who was convicted in June of 2024 of conspiring...

Trump admin backs Monsanto effort to limit Roundup lawsuits over glyphosate

The Trump administration is backing Monsanto in its effort to get the Supreme Court to shield it from liability over cancer claims related to its Roundup weedkiller, a move that could anger the Trump administration’s allies in the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement. The Trump administration filed a brief with the Supreme Court arguing that lawsuits...

Trump admin strips ‘renewable’ and ‘energy’ from National Renewable Energy Laboratory name

The Trump administration on Monday stripped the words “renewable” and “energy” from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory name, furthering White House directives to abandon clean energy sources. On Monday, the Department of Energy renamed the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to the National Laboratory of the Rockies announcing that the change is effective immediately and will...

Supreme Court leans toward faith-based pregnancy centers in NJ subpoena fight 

The Supreme Court appeared sympathetic to a group of faith-based pregnancy centers at oral arguments Tuesday in its fight against a subpoena from New Jersey’s Democratic attorney general seeking donor information.  First Choice Women’s Resource Centers argues the demand violates the group’s First Amendment rights, but lower courts ruled the dispute isn’t ripe until a...

Milk sold in Illinois and Wisconsin recalled over ‘cleaning agents’

Close to 320 gallons of the milk were sold before the issue was discovered.

Johnson raises Obama drone strikes in response to Hegseth controversy

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) brought up drone strikes conducted on former President Obama’s watch when asked about the controversy over Caribbean boat strikes authorized by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Johnson was asked in a press conference Tuesday about September strikes on a boat allegedly carrying drugs. The Washington Post reported last week that Hegseth had issued an...

Trump says his administration will ‘rebuild’ Dulles airport

President Trump on Tuesday said his administration was planning to overhaul Dulles International Airport in Virginia. “We’re also going to rebuild Dulles airport because it’s not a good airport. It should be a great airport, and it’s not a good airport at all," Trump said during a Cabinet meeting. "It’s a terrible airport. It was...

Wall Street Journal calls for Hegseth to testify under oath on boat strikes

The editorial board of The Wall Street Journal is calling for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to testify under oath about the second strike the U.S. military conducted that killed survivors of an initial strike on an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the Caribbean.  "The charge of deliberately killing the defenseless is serious enough to warrant...

Defunding of catechists leaves Catholic soldiers in a lurch

Canceling these contracts disproportionately impacts Catholics.

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