The Debrief with Conn Carroll: Congress faces a border deal disaster
J. Scott Applewhite
Washington Examiner Commentary Editor Conn Carroll joins Investigations Editor Sarah Bedford to discuss the dead border deal, the criticism it received from GOP lawmakers and commentators, and its aftermath. They also discuss President Joe Biden’s decision to blame former President Donald Trump and whether it will be a credible message from the White House.
Trump says the US has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela
Aamer Madhani
aamer.madhani@associatedpress.com
Updated 17 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela amid mounting tensions with the government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. It’s the Trump administration’s latest push to...
Aamer Madhani
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Federal Reserve cuts key rate but signals higher bar for future reductions
Christopher Rugaber
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Updated 17 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve reduced its key interest rate for the third time in a row Wednesday but signaled that it may leave rates unchanged in the coming months, a move that could attract ire from President Donald...
Christopher Rugaber
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Bernie Sanders says Trump is lying after ‘A+++++’ rating on the economy
Sydney Topf, Washington Examiner
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Updated 18 hours ago
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said President Donald Trump can “lie all that he wants” after Trump gave himself an “A+++++” on his performance regarding the economy. “If this is an A+++ economy, God help us if we ever get to...
Sydney Topf, Washington Examiner
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Judge blocks Trump’s LA troops deployment for third time after getting overruled twice
Jack Birle, Washington Examiner
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Updated 18 hours ago
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer blocked President Donald Trump‘s use of the California National Guard for a third time on Wednesday, despite an appeals court halting Breyer’s two previous orders stopping the deployment of troops to Los Angeles. Breyer granted...
Jack Birle, Washington Examiner
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Judge Boasberg seeks testimony from DOJ ‘whistleblower’ in criminal contempt inquiry
Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner
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Updated 18 hours ago
Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg this week pushed forward his fact-finding inquiry into whether Justice Department officials under the Trump administration deliberately defied his emergency order blocking the removal of more than one hundred Venezuelan detainees to El Salvador...
Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner
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Haley Stevens introduces articles of impeachment against RFK Jr.: ‘Self-created threat’
Brady Knox, Washington Examiner
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Updated 18 hours ago
Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) introduced articles of impeachment against Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday for threatening the country’s health. Stevens, who is running for Michigan’s open Senate seat in 2026, has targeted Kennedy with...
Brady Knox, Washington Examiner
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Third judge rules DOJ can unseal Epstein grand jury records from sex trafficking case
Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner
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Updated 18 hours ago
A federal judge in New York cleared the way for the Justice Department to release long-sealed grand jury materials from its sex-trafficking investigation into the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, marking another major step in the government’s race to comply...
Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner
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Musk says he wouldn’t do DOGE again if given the chance
Brady Knox, Washington Examiner
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Updated 18 hours ago
Elon Musk voiced a negative retrospective view of his grand government reform project, the Department of Government Efficiency, saying he wouldn’t do it again if given the chance. In an interview on Katie Miller’s podcast, Musk was asked if, knowing...
Brady Knox, Washington Examiner
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Democrats set expanded targets after surprise victories in Florida and Georgia
Emily Hallas, Washington Examiner
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Updated 18 hours ago
A string of election victories on Tuesday has Democrats bullish about the midterm elections, leading them to expand their target map for 2026. In an upset win, the party flipped the Miami mayorship blue for the first time in nearly...
Emily Hallas, Washington Examiner
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Top US political figures lend legitimacy to Qatari forum allied with array of anti-American groups
Robert Schmad, Washington Examiner
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Updated 18 hours ago
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump Jr., Bill Gates, Tucker Carlson, and a host of other U.S. political figures have all descended on the Qatari capital of Doha in recent days to discuss an array of current events....
Robert Schmad, Washington Examiner
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Talk show host Bill Maher shared his opinion Friday that President Joe Biden should remain a one-term president and drop out of the 2024 race during the Democratic National Convention. Maher made reference to his nickname for the president, “Ruth Bader Biden,” during his Friday episode of Real Talk with Bill Maher. He has used […]
Trump blasts Biden’s fitness to run for president if special counsel says he’s ‘not fit to charge’
Former President Donald Trump questioned whether President Joe Biden is mentally fit to run for office on Saturday after a special counsel report this week refused to charge him with a crime. Special counsel Robert Hur released a report on Thursday that claimed pressing charges against the president for possessing classified documents at the Penn […]