Author: Brady Knox, Washington Examiner

The Federal Aviation Administration lifted its airspace closure over El Paso and New Orleans just hours after instituting it. The FAA originally instituted the shutdown for 10 days, through Feb. 21, but it was lifted after a few hours, according to the Associated Press. The Washington Examiner reached out to the FAA for comment. A White…

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) is the latest Democrat to face a reckoning over her age, after a generations-younger primary challenger entered the race. Waters, 87, is facing a challenge from nonprofit executive Myla Rahman, 53, after 35 years in Congress and 50 years as an elected official. A star of the resistance during President Donald…

Fulton County sued the Trump administration for the repossession of 2020 election files taken by the FBI in a raid last week. The lawsuit was filed on Wednesday, announced at a press conference led by Fulton County Board of Commissioners Chairman Robb Pitts. The chairman spoke in grandiose terms, framing the lawsuit as a global…

Secretary of State Marco Rubio stressed that the raid to capture former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro was a “trigger-based operation.” When pressed by Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) about why Congress didn’t receive advance notification of the raid, Rubio proposed two explanations: that the operation was contingent on several different factors aligning at an exact moment,…

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) demanded that President Donald Trump fire Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem over her handling of immigration enforcement in Minneapolis. Tagging Trump in what the senator said was a “direct appeal” on X, Fetterman pleaded with the president to fire Noem over her perceived incompetence. “@realDonaldTrump I make a direct appeal to…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Europe must amass an army of 3 million by 2030 to counter Russia’s projected 2.5 million-strong army by that time. Unsurprisingly, Zelensky devoted most of his time at the World Economic Forum Summit in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday to warning about Russia and pleading for help for Ukraine‘s war effort.…

President Donald Trump singled out Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney during his Davos speech, deriding him as “ungrateful” in his own speech. In a free-wheeling speech on Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump touted his accomplishments during his first year back in office and reiterated his grievances with the NATO alliance.…

Many unforeseen conflicts broke out, escalated, and concluded in 2025. This year is set to follow that same pattern. The previous year was marked by the tentative conclusion of the war in Gaza, a brief but dangerous war between Israel and Iran, a brief war between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan, and the continued onslaught of…

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani began his term by voiding all of his predecessor’s executive orders signed after his September 2024 indictment, including several pro-Israel ones. In his opening moves as mayor, Mamdani signed executive orders dealing with housing and one repealing all of former Mayor Eric Adams’s executive orders signed after his indictment on…

Hamas vowed not to disarm after confirming the deaths of five of its senior leaders, complicating President Donald Trump’s peace plan. In a statement, Hamas’s Izz ad-Din al Qassam Brigades announced the deaths of five prominent leaders, including two of its most famous. Among those killed was Mohammed al Sinwar, the brother of former Hamas…