Washington Examiner

According to the FBI’s annual crime report, murder and nonnegligent manslaughter offenses fell an estimated 18.1% in 2025, while robbery offenses declined 18.5%, rape offenses fell 7.6%, and aggravated assault declined 7.2%.The Trump administration quickly seized on the figures as evidence that the president’s policies have made the country safer.... Read more

The BBC is seeking court permission to subpoena President Donald Trump’s family members over their knowledge of his Jan. 6, 2021, speech, as the broadcaster fights a $10 billion defamation lawsuit brought by Trump.The lawsuit stems from a 2024 BBC documentary that edited together separate portions of Trump’s speech at... Read more

President Donald Trump told a crowd in Nassau County, New York, on Friday that he plans to make the Strait of Hormuz a U.S. territory as the two countries continue to spar over control of the strait.The president has traded barbs and missile strikes with Tehran regarding the flow of... Read more

President Donald Trump confirmed on Friday that Kevin Rideout, an American missionary captured by a terrorist group in Niger last year, was safely returned to the United States.“I am proud to announce that Kevin Rideout, a wonderful Christian Missionary, is back in United States Custody,” Trump wrote on Truth Social... Read more

Baker is set to part ways with President Donald Trump in the coming weeks, Axios reported on Friday, marking the second high-profile departure from the White House this week. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced on Wednesday that she would be stepping down from her role to spend more time with... Read more

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to allow construction on the White House ballroom to continue, after a federal appeals court said the construction must be halted until the federal government gets approval from Congress.The East Wing of the White House was demolished last year to make... Read more

President Donald Trump condemned the graffiti vandalism of the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., as a particularly grievous insult and said those responsible were being hunted down.After the preeminent memorial to U.S. sacrifices in World War II was spray-painted with graffiti and its fountain filled with bubbly soap,... Read more

The Kennedy Center’s board of trustees on Thursday voted to put President Donald Trump’s name on the institution’s facade in Washington, D.C., testing the limits of a judge’s order on the matter. The board voted to add the inscription “Restored and Renovated By President Donald J. Trump” below the Kennedy Center... Read more

Outgoing White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was a full-throated defender of President Donald Trump at the podium, but she typically served up the MAGA message with a smile.That’s not to say the 28-year-old’s briefings weren’t combative, especially as she mixed it up with reporters from some of Trump’s least... Read more

“Microaggressions” and “allyship” are out at the U.S. Foreign Service.The State Department announced Thursday that it will be overhauling policies in the diplomatic personnel system, ending a slew of protocols previously established to further diversity, equity, and inclusion goals.“The DEI agenda was embedded in the institutional culture of the Foreign... Read more

Vice President JD Vance said Thursday that President Donald Trump‘s immediate priority regarding the war with Iran is to lower oil and gas prices, ahead of preventing Tehran from obtaining nuclear weapons.The vice president was pressed in an interview with Fox News’s Will Cain to address “frustration” with the “seesaw nature” of the... Read more

EXCLUSIVE — Republicans are betting they can convince their voters to go to the polls this November with beer.Trumpworld pollster John McLaughlin, in a poll published on Thursday, reported that likely voters nationwide support tariffs on Mexican beer by a margin of nearly 3-to-1, 65% to 23%.Even when voters were... Read more