Washington Examiner

Top Trump officials have fanned out across the country to rally behind Republican candidates with just 64 days to go before the midterm elections, but one notable surrogate has been absent: Secretary of State Marco Rubio.Rubio, widely viewed as a potential 2028 presidential contender, has largely steered clear of the... Read more

President Donald Trump said on Sunday that Venezuelan oil will replenish the United States’s Strategic Petroleum Reserves after announcing a historic deal with the country on Friday.“One of the things I am going to do with the Venezuela Oil is fill up the Strategic National Reserves,” Trump said, “which, because... Read more

Google updated its Maps application on Sunday in adherence with an executive order President Donald Trump signed on Thursday that renamed Lake Ontario to Lake America.Titled, “Honoring the American history of the Great Lakes and renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America,” the order directs Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to “take... Read more

President Donald Trump announced that he was reporting NBC News’s Kristen Welker to the Federal Communications Commission for “rebuke and punishment” over comments she made about his endorsement record.In a Sunday post on Truth Social, Trump voiced his outrage over comments Welker made minutes before, when she said Trump had... Read more

Former President Barack Obama is returning to the campaign trail almost two months before November’s midterm elections for a fundraising event at a time when President Donald Trump and his political advisers are unloading their deep coffers and making a mark on competitive contests.Obama is headlining a fundraiser on Martha’s... Read more

The FCC voted 2-1 on Aug. 6 to eliminate the rule barring a single company from owning television stations reaching more than 39% of U.S. households, replacing the hard ceiling with a case-by-case approach to proposed transactions.Carr argues the decades-old restriction is obsolete in a media landscape transformed by cable,... Read more

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent rebuked Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Friday over a weekslong disagreement over the Treasury Department’s decision to execute a joint currency intervention with Japan to support the weakening yen after the currency dropped to a 40-year low at the beginning of August.Warren sent a personal letter... Read more

The former White House teleprompter staffer who was charged with using privileged information to make bets on prediction markets will pay a $172,539.02 fine for his actions.The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced on Friday that the former Trump administration staffer settled with the agency on paying back the $107,539.02 he... Read more

One day after Trump inked an executive order on Thursday changing the name of the lake under the official U.S. government, Seneca called the move “unacceptable” and an act of “blatant disrespect toward the Seneca people, other Haudenosaunee nations, and all Indigenous people.”“The President cannot assert ownership over our culture... Read more

Vice President JD Vance on Friday urged the Environmental Protection Agency‘s watchdog to investigate the Biden administration’s response to a train derailment in northeastern Ohio that resulted in the spill of toxic chemicals.The train was hauling 20 cars containing hazardous materials, including at least five toxic chemicals, when it derailed... Read more

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Friday denied a report that he is considering a presidential bid in 2028, as speculation builds around which Republicans will battle to succeed President Donald Trump. “100% false. We told NBC that, but they just lie w/ anonymous ‘sources,’” Hegseth said on social media.Hegseth was... Read more

President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he struck a historic oil deal with Venezuela, after wresting power from former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro in January.The president said the United States has established “majority” control over more than 65 billion barrels of oil in Venezuela, “at no cost to the American taxpayer.”... Read more