Washington Examiner

President Donald Trump on Saturday denounced the Justice Department’s lead federal prosecutor for Washington, D.C., for seeking to dismiss charges against a former Olympian accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro filed a motion to dismiss the indictment against David Hearn... Read more

President Donald Trump’s social media company on Saturday launched a new plan that offers high-paying clientele real-time access to posts on the platform. Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of Truth Social, is offering Truth API, or application programming interface, to subscribers as of Aug. 1. APIs are data... Read more

President Donald Trump on Friday filed to appeal a ruling that questioned the $10 billion lawsuit he brought against the IRS, after the government sought to use the lawsuit’s settlement to create an “anti-weaponization” fund to recompense perceived targets of political weaponization In early July, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams, who... Read more

Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment rather than answer senators’ questions this week about his conduct during the COVID-19 pandemic.But in the 1,141-page private diary released before that hearing, the former top infectious disease official had plenty to say about the press, his celebrity, his enemies on the “far... Read more

The Kennedy Center is temporarily suspending free public tours of the performing arts venue after a volunteer tour guide spoke with the New York Times about President Donald Trump‘s efforts to gut the cultural institution.An internal memo said the center was placing a “temporary pause” on the tour program, starting... Read more

The Indiana Republican leader in the state Senate announced on Friday that he will not seek reelection to his leadership position after President Donald Trump successfully primaried several of his colleagues to buck his redistricting agenda. Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray’s defiant opposition to Trump’s mid-decade redistricting agenda attracted the... Read more

President Donald Trump apportioned responsibility to the “grossly incompetent” state government of Minnesota and its “corrupt” Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) for a suspected, but not confirmed, Iranian cyberattack on its water systems.Trump made the comments during a televised Cabinet meeting at Camp David on Friday.“I just want to mention that... Read more

President Donald Trump offered some words of praise to the White House press corps covering his second administration during a Cabinet meeting on Friday.“I want to thank a lot of the media people because many of you have been very, very fair,” Trump said while speaking at Camp David presidential... Read more

Preservationists filed a motion on Thursday asking a federal judge to block the Trump administration from painting the historic Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington.Cultural Heritage Partners filed a renewed motion for a preliminary injunction to stop the administration from testing samples of white paint on the Eisenhower Executive Office... Read more

President Donald Trump will host a Cabinet meeting around 11 a.m. Friday at Camp David in Maryland. Hosted at historic Camp David, where many diplomats have historically gathered for significant meetings with the president, the Cabinet meeting will likely focus in large part on the status of the Iran war.... Read more

President Donald Trump on Friday argued in favor of the anti-weaponization fund that his administration previously said was dead, as Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) continues to hold up acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s nomination over concerns about the fund.“Perhaps there has never been a group of people treated so badly... Read more

A high-profile FIFA aide and White House Task Force for the World Cup representative resigned in protest Saturday over a controversial proposal to sell a stake in the organization’s commercial business, warning that the plan would sacrifice one of the world’s most valuable sports properties to private investors.Victor Cordeiro, a former... Read more