President Trump is using his executive authority to direct the harshest impacts of the government shutdown toward Democratic priorities, and Republicans say it's the Democrats' fault.
Jay Jones, the Democratic nominee for Virginia attorney general, was caught driving 116 mph three years ago and performed 500 hours of his mandated community service for his own political action committee, court records show.
A terrorist killed two Jewish worshippers in a car-ramming and stabbing attack outside the Heaton Park Hebrew synagogue in Manchester, England, on Thursday. The attack came on the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur. The response of the synagogue’s security team in preventing the terrorist from accessing the facility and the swift response […]
President Donald Trump and many of his supporters celebrated last week when second-quarter gross domestic product numbers were revised upward to 3.8%, well above the 3% that pro-Trump economists celebrated as “absolutely blockbuster.” Economic growth of nearly 4% is welcome, as are the tax cuts and deregulation that helped spur it. But the White House shouldn’t pop the […]
After the Washington Examiner exclusively obtained an administrative complaint filed with the U.S. Department of Education to protect vulnerable schoolgirls, Defending Education lodged a second complaint against New Mexico’s second-largest school district, Las Cruces Public Schools. Given that this dangerous policy enforced in the state’s school districts is no longer an isolated issue, President Donald […]
Conservative attorney George Conway argued Wednesday that the indictment of ex-FBI Director James Comey is “invalid” due to the absence of a required signature. Lindsey Halligan, interim U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, was assigned to oversee the case and originally signed the indictment documents, but Conway says the law doesn’t allow for...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) will speak with reporters Thursday afternoon as the government shutdown stretches into a second day amid a stalemate in the Senate. Republicans and Democrats in the upper chamber of Congress have failed to agree on a stopgap proposal to reopen the government, with both sides casting blame on the...
A Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is pressing Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) to call President Trump’s budget director before the panel to explain his threat to escalate federal firings amid the government shutdown. In a letter sent to Comer on Thursday, Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-Va.) portrayed Russell Vought, the head of...