Author: Ross-OKeefe-Washington-Examiner

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) will hold a press conference at 10 a.m. on Friday as the government shutdown continues. EVERYONE WHO HAS NOMINATED TRUMP FOR THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE Johnson has been criticized for failing to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, letting the House go into recess during the government shutdown. He took calls…

Ahead of the Nobel Peace Prize award announcement, some supporters were holding out hope that President Donald Trump would secure the win. Polymarket users had a different feeling. Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado received a surge in betting in the hours before she won the prize, her odds taking off from around 3% at…

A new poll granted hope to former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s campaign Thursday with Mayor Eric Adams out of the New York City mayoral race. The Quinnipiac survey saw Cuomo up 10 percentage points in support from the last survey, when Adams was still in the race. Cuomo was expected to pick up some of Adams’s…

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said she was unsure if the Epstein files are why the House isn’t in session and called for Arizona Democratic Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva to be sworn in. Greene has called for a definitive plan to replace the insurance premium tax credits not included in the Republican-backed government funding resolution. The…

President Donald Trump agreed to a deal with Finland to commission the construction of four icebreaking ships, and the United States will build seven more domestically. The construction of the seven icebreaking ships, key to Arctic operations with their ability to cut through formidable ice sheets, is expected to create thousands of jobs. Trump will…

A North Carolina House Democrat was arrested on Wednesday and charged with multiple sex crimes. The Guilford County Sheriff’s Office charged Cecil Brockman, who represents the state’s 60th House district near Greensboro, with two counts of indecent liberties with a child and two counts of statutory rape of someone between the ages of 13 and…

President Donald Trump is set to hold a Cabinet meeting around 11 a.m. on Thursday. REPUBLICANS ARE PUSHING THESE FIVE DEMOCRATS TO FLIP ON FUNDING BILL Trump recently announced a Gaza peace deal that will allow for the release of Israeli and Palestinian prisoners. The president wrote on Wednesday night that all prisoners would be…

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) plans to introduce a bill that would make it easier to sue the government over alleged censorship, he told the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday. Cruz’s statement comes after he disagreed with the administration’s threat toward ABC for late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s comments about the assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk. “Censorship…