Author: Emily Hallas, Washington Examiner

Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) this week accused former Vice President Kamala Harris of making false statements in her new memoir, suggesting she is peddling “lies” in order to boost book sales.  “I can tell you that her accounts are just blatant lies,” Shapiro said during an interview with the Atlantic published Wednesday, in reference to…

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) urged Congress to have more robust conversations about the future of artificial intelligence, predicting the rapidly advancing technology will continue to carry sweeping implications for the United States and the world.  “I see growing awareness, but I don’t think Congress is moving anywhere near fast enough,” the Vermont senator said during…

Centrist Democrats cautioned against a growing antipathy toward compromise in Congress, after they bucked their party to back a GOP deal ending the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. Reps. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA), Adam Gray (D-CA), Don Davis (D-NC), Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Tom Suozzi (D-NY), and Jared Golden (D-ME) gained attention on Wednesday when…

President Donald Trump has requested Israeli President Isaac Herzog to pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of crimes he is accused of committing. Herzog said Wednesday he received an official letter from Trump making the request. The move comes after Trump has repeatedly suggested the accusations leveled against Netanyahu are sham, politically motivated charges. He has…

Google filed a lawsuit Wednesday accusing China-based cyber criminals of conducting a massive phishing operation targeting millions of credit card holders across the United States.  The criminal network, known as “Lighthouse,” targeted between 15 and 100 million potential cards in the U.S. and impacted “over a million victims,” according to the tech company.  Google said…

President Donald Trump’s legal team on Monday appealed a New York jury’s 2023 verdict that found him liable for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll decades ago to the Supreme Court.  Trump has denied Carroll’s accusation that he sexually abused her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-1990s, suggesting she first publicly brought up…

President Donald Trump weighed in on the longest-running government shutdown in U.S. history on Monday evening, along with a myriad other issues, during a wide-ranging interview.  Trump said Republicans “broke” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) over the shutdown during an appearance on Fox News’s The Ingraham Angle. Some Democratic lawmakers are accusing Schumer of being…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent revealed on Monday he plans to attend opening arguments debating the legality of President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs at the Supreme Court this week.  Bessent said he “doesn’t think” the country’s highest court will issue a ruling striking down Trump’s ability to use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to issue…

The remains of an American Israeli hostage were among the bodies of three captives Hamas returned to Israel over the weekend.  Omer Neutra, a New York native, was 21 at the time of his death. He was a captain in the Israel Defense Forces when he was killed and abducted by Hamas during the terrorist…