Tag: Washington D.C.

Acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli, foreground, speaks during a news conference.

DOJ arrests 10 people from violent Los Angeles anti-ICE protest

Kaelan Deese · October 29, 2025 7:57 pm

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, departs the chamber as the Senate holds a procedural vote on the nomination of Emil Bove, who served on President Donald Trump's criminal defense team, to be a U.S. Circuit Court judge for the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, July 24, 2025.

Senate votes to undo Trump’s Canada tariffs, dealing second rebuke

David Sivak · October 29, 2025 6:04 pm

At a coffee shop in Charlottesville, where Earle-Sears had been scheduled to campaign Tuesday afternoon, her husband Terence Sears took the stage in her place. (Samantha-Jo Roth, Washington Examiner)

Winsome Earle-Sears forced off campaign trail due to Virginia redistricting battle

Samantha-Jo Roth · October 29, 2025 5:40 pm

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) speaks during a news conference.

Jeffries downplays dissension in the ranks over shutdown tactics

Rachel Schilke · October 29, 2025 5:26 pm

A sign turns away tourists at the entrance to the Capitol Visitor Center.

Senators and representatives refuse paychecks amid shutdown

Jenny Goldsberry · October 29, 2025 4:56 pm

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) talks to reporters while standing in the doorway of his office at the U.S. Capitol on the 29th day of the federal government shutdown on October 29, 2025 in Washington, DC. While keeping the House of Representatives out of session and away from Washington, Republican leaders blamed Democratic lawmakers for the continued federal government shutdown.

Furious Thune unloads on Democrats amid blame game over SNAP funding lapse

Ramsey Touchberry · October 29, 2025 4:45 pm

A television displays Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaking while traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange.

Stocks sink after Powell says December rate cut ‘not a foregone conclusion’

Zach Halaschak · October 29, 2025 4:31 pm

Kat Abughazaleh launches primary bid against longtime House Democrat

House candidate Kat Abughazaleh federally indicted over Illinois ICE protest

Rachel Schilke · October 29, 2025 4:17 pm

A vehicle drives along the U.S. side of the U.S.-Mexico border wall.

Democrats want open borders, most Americans don’t

Michael Barone · October 29, 2025 3:58 pm

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., joined at left by Sen. Shelly Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., the GOP whip, speaks with reporters following a closed-door meeting with Vice President JD Vance on day 28 of the government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025.

Thune favors post-shutdown healthcare deal with ‘bipartisan pedigree’

David Sivak · October 29, 2025 3:39 pm

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. listens to deputy chief of staff Stefanie Spear.

RFK Jr. cuts red tape on biosimilar drugs to lower prescription costs

Gabrielle M. Etzel · October 29, 2025 2:35 pm

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference.

Fed cuts rates as shutdown clouds economic dashboard

Zach Halaschak · October 29, 2025 2:02 pm