Ryan Lovelace

Director of U.S. Counterintelligence: ‘We had a horrible year’

The head of U.S. counterintelligence said Tuesday that the intelligence community had a terrible 2019 hampered by turncoats from within and outside of government.

February 4, 2020

Pinterest rolls out new rules on ‘false or misleading’ content ahead of 2020 election

Pinterest has issued new rules to ensure "false or misleading" content on its platform does not affect the outcome of an election.

January 30, 2020

200 liberal lawyers plan protest of Senate Republicans’ actions on impeachment outside Supreme Court

More than 200 left-leaning lawyers plan to protest on Friday the Senate Republicans' actions in the ongoing impeachment trial of President Trump.

January 30, 2020

Club for Growth launches TV ad attacking Romney on impeachment

Club for Growth is running a new television ad hitting Sen. Mitt Romney for aligning with Democrats on process questions surrounding the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump.

January 29, 2020

Refuse Fascism plans anti-Trump protest outside Senate impeachment trial

Anti-Trump activists are planning to rally outside the Senate ahead of Wednesday's impeachment proceedings and then march through the city during the afternoon rush-hour commute.

January 28, 2020

Lobbyist spending in Washington hits high mark of $3.47 billion

Spending on lobbying in Washington last year hit its highest mark in nearly a decade, reaching almost $3.5 billion, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

January 28, 2020

Koch network unveils new initiative to combat activists’ grip on tech sector

The Koch Network is entering the Big Tech scrum, urging the industry's biggest companies to fight regulation and avoid caving to pressure to curb political ads.

January 28, 2020

Trump signs bill to improve religious groups’ security

President Trump has signed little-noticed legislation to fund greater protection of religious institutions against terror attacks.

January 27, 2020

Judicial Conference policy would ban judges from Federalist Society, American Constitution Society

The federal judiciary's policy-making body is considering banning judges from belonging to the right-leaning Federalist Society or the left-leaning American Constitution Society.

January 26, 2020

Pro-life lobbyists train activists for combat against pro-choice foes at March for Life conference

March for Life organizers on Thursday prepared leaders of its 100,000-member march for how to navigate the type of aggressive counterprotesters and hostile news media that menaced a Catholic high school group last year.

January 23, 2020

Senate staffers amplify bosses’ messages on social media during impeachment trial

Senators are not letting the impeachment trial's restrictions on modern technology stop them. From Apple Watches to staffs' rapid response efforts on Twitter, the senators are finding ways to use technology around the all-consuming trial.

January 22, 2020

Progressive group unveils $400K ad campaign on impeachment against 5 GOP senators

The Progressive Turnout Project has launched a $400,000 digital ad campaign targeting incumbent GOP senators in Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Maine and North Carolina.

January 21, 2020

Americans for Prosperity Action triples grassroots mobilization effort

Americans for Prosperity Action plans to fight in more than 200 federal and state elections in 2020, tripling the grassroots mobilization effort it deployed during the 2018 midterm cycle, The Washington Times has learned.

January 20, 2020

Big Tech companies flex financial muscles in elections, liberal groups fight influence

Jeff Bezos and his Big Tech compatriots have suddenly become the new Koch brothers.

January 19, 2020

Senate Republicans’ attempt to define abortion as not health care faces stiff opposition

Republican lawmakers aiming to curb government-subsidized abortions by defining the practice as not health care face a stiff battle from pro-choice proponents in the medical community, who consider the move reprehensible.

January 16, 2020

Brad Smith, Microsoft exec, questions whether U.S. is on the brink of a ‘tech cold war’ with China

Microsoft President Brad Smith questioned Wednesday whether the U.S. is on the brink of a technological "cold war" with China.

January 15, 2020

Silicon Valley group forms conservative coalition to build influence

A growing advocacy group is quietly organizing a right-leaning coalition of the nation's tech elite to wield greater influence in Silicon Valley, amid growing concerns that Big Tech has turned on conservatives.

January 14, 2020

Senate Republicans propose to scrap tax-deductibility of abortions

Senate Republicans are pushing legislation that would eliminate the tax-deductibility of abortions, saying the Internal Revenue Service should not categorize it as medical care.

January 14, 2020

Schumer rips China trade agreement as result of 2020 campaign politics

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer said Tuesday that the "phase one" trade agreement President Trump is preparing to make with China this week will hurt American businesses, workers, and farmers for many years to come.

January 14, 2020

Mike Pompeo rips China for cybertheft days before trade deal

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo lambasted China for cybertheft in a policy discussion Monday in Silicon Valley, the heart of American technology.

January 13, 2020