Author: Mia Cathell, Washington Examiner

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from transferring more than a dozen transgender inmates, all biological males currently housed in women’s prisons across the country, back to men’s correctional facilities. This week’s development in the closely watched case comes as female inmates from another high-profile lawsuit look to join the legal fight after…

The president and chief executive officer of ActBlue repeatedly invoked her Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination on Wednesday when lawmakers pressed her about the Democratic donation platform allegedly accepting foreign payments. ActBlue, the primary payment processor of the Democratic Party, is accused of allowing foreign actors to influence U.S. elections in favor of Democrats and…

The federal government is moving to denaturalize more than a dozen “criminal aliens” for allegedly lying about their past crimes, including child sexual abuse, fraud, and drug dealing, during the naturalization process. Officials with the Justice Department told the Washington Examiner that the denaturalization actions, announced on Monday, are “unprecedented.” The suspects include convicts originally…

By Mia Cathell Washington Examiner Millions of dollars earmarked for Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D-CA) wildfire relief fund, which was meant to help victims of the January 2025 fires recover from the devastation, went instead toward unrelated expenses, including more than $14 million diverted to controlling crowds during California’s anti-deportation protests the following summer. According to…

The Minnesota House anti-fraud and oversight committee is asking Congress to issue a subpoena to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) for refusing to hand over records of her office’s past correspondence with the ringleader of Feeding Our Future, a nonprofit organization that was implicated in a massive COVID-era fraud scheme. Lawmakers on the GOP-led Minnesota House…

Dr. Anthony Fauci’s former senior adviser was federally indicted on charges of allegedly taking part in a conspiracy to evade federal records requests regarding government-funded COVID-19 research. David Morens, a former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases official who advised Fauci in the agency’s Office of the Director from 2006 to 2022, is facing…

A federal appeals court on Friday allowed for the biologically accurate placement of transgender prisoners in accordance with President Donald Trump’s directive on housing inmates by biological sex, a ruling that incarcerated women hope will help their lawsuits aimed at moving biological males out of women’s prisons across the country. Trump, upon taking office, issued…

EXCLUSIVE — One of the Trump administration’s latest initiatives is projected to save taxpayers over $1.65 million, which previously would’ve been spent on gender-affirming care for federal prisoners who identify as transgender. Under the new prison policy, issued on Feb. 19, the U.S. government will no longer pay for the medical modification of transgender-identifying inmates…

Senate Republicans set their sights on immigration fraud at a judiciary hearing on Tuesday, assembling witnesses who highlighted widespread abuse of immigrant-tied government benefits in the midst of Minnesota’s massive Somali fraud scandal. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), chairman of the Subcommittee on Border Security and Immigration, noted during opening remarks that Somali scammers overwhelmingly made…

EXCLUSIVE — House Republicans have uncovered a nationwide “epidemic” of healthcare fraud extending far beyond the fraud-fraught states of Minnesota and California, according to congressional research into underreported cases of Medicare and Medicaid abuse shared with the Washington Examiner. For instance, in Florida, a foreign national from Cuba was federally sentenced in May 2025 for…