In a Zoom call with hundreds of upset party donors on Monday, Biden campaign chair Jennifer O’Malley Dillon dismissed concerns that President Joe Biden is too old to run for reelection. “He’s probably in better health than most of us,” O’Malley Dillon told the roughly 500 virtual attendees, all members of the campaign’s National Finance
ARLINGTON, Va.—Sam Brinton is a free man. The disgraced former Department of Energy official pleaded guilty to petit larceny as part of a sweetheart deal that will see him serve no jail time after facing felony charges that carried a sentence of up to 20 years. State prosecutors quietly announced the plea deal during a
The IRS is under renewed congressional pressure to pull the tax-exempt status for several key U.S.-based nonprofits that are fomenting pro-Hamas protests across the country just years after they played a leading role in the anti-police riots that erupted as part of the 2020 Black Lives Matter movement. Rep. Jim Banks (R., Ind.) alerted the
A coalition of more than 150 House and Senate Republicans are calling on the Biden administration to withdraw a slate of environmental regulations targeting heavy-duty trucks, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. The lawmakers—led by Rep. Randy Feenstra (R., Iowa) and Sen. Mike Crapo (R., Idaho)—will send a letter, first reviewed by the Free Beacon, to Environmental
Addressing the nation on Monday, President Joe Biden assured the American public that he would “respect the limits of the presidential powers.” Just weeks ago, he boasted that the Supreme Court “didn’t stop” his student loan forgiveness plan that was ruled unconstitutional. Biden’s remarks followed the High Court’s ruling on Monday that presidents have immunity
The Department of Energy is set to give a $400 million loan to a financially troubled battery company that admitted to defrauding the federal government in 2022, according to court records. Eos Energy—whose board includes a personal friend of Department of Energy loan czar Jigar Shah—was forced to pay a $1 million settlement to the
Eloise Maybank is accustomed to luxury. A London native, Maybank attended high school at a private French academy in London, the renowned Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle de Londres, and then at Milton Academy, an elite Massachusetts boarding school where tuition runs $76,000 a year. Then she enrolled at Columbia. Maybank was among approximately 100