Emily Babay

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President Donald Trump stands with Republican National Committee chair Michael Whatley.

Michael Whatley sticks close to Trump in battle against Roy Cooper

Mabinty Quarshie · March 27, 2026 8:20 pm

FCC chairman Brendan Carr participates in a fire side chat with America First Legal Foundation General Counsel Julie Strauss Levin at CPAC. (Samantha-Jo Roth, Washington Examiner)

WATCH LIVE: Paxton to speak at CPAC Reagan dinner

Rena Rowe · March 27, 2026 7:32 pm

Sens. John Curtis and Elissa Slotkin; Reps. Mike Levin, Nikki Budzinski, Adrian Smith

Capitol Hill bets against prediction markets with slew of new regulations

Lauren Green · March 27, 2026 7:01 pm

Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) appears for a hearing of the House Ethics Committee on Capitol Hill on March 26, 2026 in Washington, DC. Cherfilus-McCormick is accused of stealing $5 million from FEMA and using part of it to fund her first successful run for Congress in 2021.

Democrats call for Cherfilus-McCormick’s resignation after fraud finding

Rena Rowe · March 27, 2026 6:33 pm

FCC chairman Brendan Carr participates in a fire side chat with America First Legal Foundation General Counsel Julie Strauss Levin at CPAC. (Samantha-Jo Roth, Washington Examiner)

Carr escalates media crackdown at CPAC amid Nexstar-Tegna backlash

Samantha-Jo Roth · March 27, 2026 6:19 pm

Polymarket takes over a local bar for a pop-up experience.

Newsom bans state officials from insider trading on prediction markets

Barnini Chakraborty · March 27, 2026 5:20 pm

Smoke rises from a building following an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon.

Comparing the Iran war to the Iraq War is ‘31 flavors of delusion’: Joe Concha

Britta Miller · March 27, 2026 4:40 pm

President Donald Trump has come out against the Senate's deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security, saying it "wasn't appropriate."

Trump sides with Johnson over Thune in Senate-House brawl to end DHS shutdown

Hailey Bullis, Lauren Green and Rachel Schilke · March 27, 2026 4:38 pm

Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., listens to thanks from members of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina

Thom Tillis warns on Iran strategy, slams both parties as shutdown drags on

Rena Rowe · March 27, 2026 4:38 pm

Hakeem Jeffries.

WATCH LIVE: Jeffries holds press conference on DHS proposal

Emily Hallas · March 27, 2026 4:05 pm

President Donald Trump announces new tariffs on "Liberation Day" as Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and War Secretary Pete Hegseth look on.

Beltway Confidential

Marco Rubio should set his sights on 2032

Steven Taff · March 27, 2026 4:05 pm

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) talks to reporters on March 27, 2026, about a proposed continuing resolution to fund Department of Homeland Security until May 22. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Mike Johnson splits from Thune with eight-week DHS funding bill

Rachel Schilke · March 27, 2026 3:39 pm