Senators on Sunday raced to release a highly-anticipated bill that pairs border enforcement policy with wartime aid for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies as part of a long-shot effort to push the package through heavy skepticism from Republicans, including House Speaker Mike Johnson.
When Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicted former President Donald Trump for paying off a porn star over a one-night stand from 18 years ago, the cynical calculus of the liberal legal movement seemed obvious. While ignoring rampant violent crimes against people and property, select Soros prosecutors would shatter centuries of legal precedent in a […]
It is a good thing Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) is retiring from Congress at the end of his term. He has shown to be an incredibly weak elected official and demonstrated his interests supersede those of the public. The country doesn’t need such elected officials loitering in Congress. As the Washington Examiner previously reported, Buck […]
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) argued on Sunday that the New York sexual assault and defamation verdict against former President Trump should be thrown out due to what he described as a tainted jury from “extremely left-wing jurisdictions.” A judge ruled last month that Trump should pay writer E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million for defamation, the...
President Biden joined family at a swanky Los Angeles restaurant on Sunday, in celebration of his son Hunter’s 54th birthday. Biden joined his son, Hunter, and his grandson, Beau, at the Ivy restaurant on Sunday. Biden spoke with other restaurant patrons seated outside and embraced his son outside of the restaurant. Hunter Biden has long...
House Intelligence chair Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) slammed the Biden administration on Sunday for having “no policy” on Iran. Turner said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that the Biden administration has “confusion among their goals and objectives” related to the recent U.S. strikes in the Middle East. His comments come just days after the U.S. launched...
House Democrats from Texas went after Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Sunday over a standoff at the U.S.-Mexico border between state and federal law enforcement, accusing him of inciting potential violence and making border safety a purely political issue. Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) described Abbott’s border security program as a “disaster” and part of the...
Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) is in the middle of a political storm as he tries to pull off the Herculean task of passing the Senate’s bipartisan border package into law amid rising opposition. Lankford and his fellow Senate negotiators have been taking heavy fire from opponents, largely within Lankford’s own party. But they’ve had limited...
A House Democrat labeled Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) standalone bill on funding for Israel an “act of staggering bad faith” on Sunday. “Well, the move he has taken to offer an Israel-only deal is very dirty pool. It's an act of staggering bad faith,” Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” Johnson...
Severe storms pounded California late Saturday into Sunday, prompting heavy rainfall, mudslides, dangerous winds and evacuation orders in several central and southern parts of the state. The storms marked the second time in a matter of days California has been pummeled by an atmospheric river, a band of moisture that transports water vapor from the...