Susan Ferrechio has been writing about politics and national news for more than three decades, providing coverage through six presidents and eight House speakers. She writes about politics and other top national issues for The Washington Times. Her coverage includes Congress, the presidency, elections, and energy policy with an emphasis on stories ignored by other media. She first joined The Washington Times in 1995 then moved to The Miami Herald, followed by Congressional Quarterly and The Washington Examiner, where she served as chief congressional correspondent and provided coverage for four presidential campaign cycles and countless congressional and senate races. She returned to The Washington Times in 2022 and serves as national politics correspondent. Susan has provided commentary for Fox News, MSNBC, NEWSMAX, ABC News, NewsNation, WMAL Radio, CSPAN and the McLaughlin Group. She can be reached at sferrechio@washingtontimes.com.
New security video from the White House Correspondents' Association dinner appears to show a police dog straining on its leash as it approached alleged gunman Cole Allen in a stairwell just seconds before he bolted past the Secret Service with a rifle.
House lawmakers on Thursday voted to ban greyhound racing, a betting sport already prohibited in many states, thanks to pressure from animal rights organizations.
Justice Department prosecutors under the Biden administration exchanged emails relishing the chance to prosecute Catholic nuns -- particularly traditional nuns "who still wear the head habit."
Louisiana's Republican governor on Thursday delayed the May 16 congressional primaries following the Supreme Court ruling that threw out the state's racially gerrymandered districts.
The Florida Legislature on Wednesday approved a reconfigured congressional map likely to help Republicans win an additional four U.S. House seats in November's midterm election, putting the Sunshine State at the middle of a nationwide redistricting brawl.
Thousands of food stamp recipients have been cruising to the grocery store in Maseratis, Lamborghinis, Porsches and other extravagant cars, a federal investigation uncovered.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday unveiled a reconfigured congressional map that would likely erase all of the gains Democrats thought they scored in Virginia when voters narrowly approved new district lines to wipe out nearly all the state's Republican representation in Congress.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt blamed the left's "crazed rhetoric" aimed at President Trump for inspiring a gunman to charge toward the Washington Hilton ballroom where Mr. Trump and his Cabinet were attending the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner on Saturday night.
The Virginia Supreme Court Monday heard from opponents of the state's new gerrymandered House district map, who argued the legislature violated the state constitution when it redrew the lines to favor Democrats.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will ask the state legislature this week to approve new Congressional district lines that are likely to elect 4 additional Republicans to the U.S. House.
Four people have tried to kill President Trump in less than two years, an unprecedented record that some blame on the left wing's virulent demonization of the president, otherwise known as Trump derangement syndrome.
The accused White House Correspondents' Dinner gunman is identified as a 31-year-old man armed with a shotgun, a handgun and multiple knives who sprinted through a Secret Service checkpoint and attempted to storm a ballroom inside the Washington Hilton, where President Trump and other high-ranking officials were seated.
President Trump praised the Secret Service for taking down a gunman who fired several shots inside the Washington Hilton, where Mr. Trump and most of his Cabinet were sitting in the ballroom at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
President Trump said "let the show go on," but listened to the Secret Service who abruptly whisked him away from the White House Correspondents Dinner in Washington after a shooter fired off half a dozen rounds outside the ballroom.
Shots were fired at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in Washington on Saturday night, forcing guests to duck under tables in the Washington Hilton ballroom.
The gerrymandered congressional district lines approved by Virginia voters Tuesday could be erased by the state's judicial system, which is weighing multiple court challenges to the new map.
Iowa, a deep-red state for decades that voted for President Trump in three consecutive elections, may be on the verge of choosing a Democratic governor, flipping a Republican Senate seat and capturing two Republican House seats.
The leading Democrats in the California governor's race would block Trump administration reforms aimed at mitigating the state's massive illegal immigration problem and would even fight a federal policy prohibiting licenses for truck drivers who can't speak English.
In one of the most important congressional redistricting battles ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, voters in Virginia approved a new map that will eliminate nearly all of the state's Republican representation in the U.S. House after 2026.
Prosecutors last week told a Utah judge they've got Tyler Robinson "captured on video" firing the fatal shot at Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk from the rooftop of Utah Valley University.