Author: Robert Stewart, Washington Examiner

First lady Jill Biden made her first public comments about Hunter Biden’s conviction on felony gun charges on Saturday while in Phoenix for a campaign event. The first lady was in Arizona to court senior voters in the swing state before joining her husband, President Joe Biden, at an event with former President Barack Obama,…

Anthony Scaramucci, a former Trump White House communications director, called out some attendees of this week’s Business Roundtable meeting for supporting his former boss in the 2024 presidential election. The meeting came Thursday while former President Donald Trump visited Washington and featured prominent CEOs such as Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman, Apple’s Tim Cook, and JP Morgan…

Film producer Harvey Weinstein is appealing his rape conviction in Los Angeles, with his lawyers arguing he did not receive a fair trial. Weinstein was tried and convicted in 2022 of rape and sexual assault, for which he was sentenced to 16 years in prison. That came after a 23-year sentence for similar charges in…

Mark Meadows, a former Trump White House chief of staff, pleaded not guilty to nine felony charges Friday in Arizona. The plea comes six weeks after Meadows and others were indicted by a grand jury for their alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state, which Democrat Joe Biden…

Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger said he was “very disappointed” in House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) for what his former colleague said about former President Donald Trump’s guilty verdict. The one-time Illinois congressman and current CNN senior political commentator was referring to Johnson’s comment that Trump’s conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records “will probably…

The District of Columbia Bar’s Board on Professional Responsibility recommended Friday that former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani be stripped of his license to practice law in Washington. The board cited claims Giuliani made about election fraud in a Pennsylvania lawsuit after Joe Biden defeated then-President Donald Trump in 2020. Among the allegations he made was…

Exit polling data suggest that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to win a third term at the conclusion of the six-week election. Modi, the leader of India’s right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party, has been the country’s chief executive since 2014, and exit polling data indicate he will remain so for another five years. Though…

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is becoming a leading candidate to join former President Donald Trump on the Republican presidential ticket, according to a report from the New York Times. Three people “with direct knowledge of Mr. Trump’s thinking” told the outlet that Cotton is on a list of five people considered favorites for the coveted…

Louisiana State University fifth-year senior Jayden Daniels won the Heisman Trophy on Saturday night, capping off an exceptional season as the Tigers’ quarterback. Daniels won the award, bestowed annually to the most outstanding player in college football, over fellow quarterbacks Michael Penix Jr. and Bo Nix, from the universities of Washington and Oregon, respectively. Ohio…

Texas state Sen. John Whitmire, a Democrat, defeated Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) in a runoff election Saturday to become the next mayor of Houston. The Associated Press called the race in Whitmire’s favor at 7:23 p.m. local time, not even half an hour after the polls closed. Almost two-thirds of mail-in ballots and early…