Author: Elaine Mallon, Washington Examiner

Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) applauded President Donald Trump for how he conducted himself with leaders from the Middle East this week. “I’m not in the habit of praising Donald Trump, but I’ve got to tell you, in the last week or so in the Middle East, Ukraine, Russia, it’s a different story,” Himes, the ranking…

The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, led by its chairman Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), held an event focused on expanding access to charter schools, with an emphasis on how Congress and the Education Department plan to ensure the schools have sufficient facilities and capital. The Thursday event came two days after Cassidy…

Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was fined nearly $330,000 for improperly using taxpayer dollars to fund his security detail during his failed 2020 presidential bid. De Blasio reached a settlement with the Conflict of Interest Board on Wednesday. In it, he agreed to pay back the city for his New York City Police…

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) called out Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) for vowing to vote “no” on President Donald Trump’s tax bill, leading to a heated exchange between the two Republican lawmakers. The Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday advanced its portion of Trump’s “big beautiful bill,” which would permanently extend the president’s 2017 tax…

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is hosting a town hall for veterans in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at 6 p.m. Eastern. The town hall is being sponsored by the left-wing organization VoteVets, and it will focus on how President Donald Trump‘s cuts to federal agencies and programs will impact veterans and military families. PETE BUTTIGIEG STRAYS…

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy detailed his plan to update Newark Liberty International Airport‘s infrastructure to address recent outages, blaming the Biden administration for the current problems. In a post on X, Duffy shared a four-point plan to ensure Newark’s infrastructure is fully updated. First, Duffy called for the completion of a new fiber line at…

EXCLUSIVE — A new bill is seeking to improve infrastructure that would support space missions to bring humans to Mars, a top focus of President Donald Trump‘s senior adviser, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) on Tuesday introduced the Mission to Modernize Astronautic Resources for Space Act, which would improve and modernize the…

Apple users can begin filing claims in a $95 million class-action lawsuit in which the company is accused of using the voice-activated Siri to violate user privacy. The company records conversations with Siri and shares them with third parties such as advertisers, according to the lawsuit. Siri is activated when users say the phrase “Hey…

The White House shielded former President Joe Biden’s “deteriorating” health from the press, Cabinet members, donors, Congress, and staffers, according to CNN’s Jake Tapper. Tapper’s statement came as he teased a book written alongside Axios’s Alex Thompson, Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, which will report on…

New York City campaign finance regulators have withheld $600,000 from mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo over allegations that he illegally coordinated with a super PAC known as Fix the City. The allegations against Cuomo stemmed from his campaign website, which laid out specific messaging that Fix the City then used to create advertisements, a practice known…