Skip to content
TRENDING:
Donald Trump
Advertisement
Author profile
Susan Ferrechio

Susan Ferrechio

sferrechio@washingtontimes.com

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.

Articles by Susan Ferrechio

Attendees look at a display made with Playbulb Bluetooth-enabled LED color light bulbs at the MiPow booth at the International CES on Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) ** FILE **

Biden is coming after your light bulbs — again

The Biden administration, which banned the incandescent light bulb last year, is going after LED bulbs, demanding "a significant leap" in energy efficiency that will nearly double the price of the bulbs and eliminate lighting choices for consumers.

June 10, 2024
People chant anti-Israel slogans while waving Palestinian flags during a rally celebrating the attacks that the militant Hamas group carried out against Israel, in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)

Liberal tracker of ‘hate’ groups excludes anti-Israel groups from latest list

A new list of so-called hate groups from the left-leaning Southern Poverty Law Center excludes organizations that have demonstrated against Israel and Jews, among them those who celebrated the Oct. 7 slaughter of Israelis by the terrorist organization Hamas, promoted antisemitism and anti-Zionism and received funds linked to Hamas.

June 4, 2024
President Joe Biden speaks during an event with the Super Bowl-champion Kansas City Chiefs on the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, May 31, 2024, to celebrate their championship season and victory in Super Bowl LVIII. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden ducks strife at Democratic National Convention with Zoom nomination

Facing a contentious convention this summer in Chicago and rumblings about replacing President Biden on the ballot, the Democratic National Committee on Tuesday will vote to change party rules to allow them to nominate him virtually before he sets foot in the convention hall.

June 3, 2024
People gather outside Manhattan Criminal Court to watch former President Donald Trump's motorcade to pass after the guilty verdict announced against Trump, Thursday, May 30, 2024, in New York. Donald Trump became the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes as a New York jury found him guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through hush money payments to a porn actor who said the two had sex. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

Guilty verdict will electrify and expand Trump base, pollsters say

Former President Donald Trump's guilty verdict in the New York hush money case is poised to energize his loyal base and motivate Republicans and some independents in key swing states to turn out in big numbers to support him in the presidential election.

May 30, 2024
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing of then Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson on Capitol Hill in Washington, on March 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Biden nominates judge who put transgender rapist in women’s prison

Judge Sarah Netburn, nominated by President Biden to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, faces a rocky path to confirmation after Republicans exposed her decision to move a sex offender who is a transgender woman to a women's prison.

May 28, 2024
Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, speaks during a news conference outside the Capitol, Dec. 13, 2023, in Washington. Biden's lawyers will press a judge Wednesday, May 22, 2024, to delay his trial in Los Angeles, set to begin next month on charges accusing him of a scheme to avoid paying $1.4 million in taxes. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Lawmakers say newly released documents show Hunter Biden lied to Congress

House lawmakers on Wednesday made public a slew of emails, phone records and other documents provided by IRS whistleblowers that they say show President Biden's son Hunter Biden "repeatedly lied to Congress" when he gave closed-door testimony in February about his father's involvement in his lucrative foreign business deals.

May 22, 2024
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., leaves a meeting with House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., whom she has vowed to remove from his leadership post, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

WATCH: MTG, AOC trade shots in committee hearing

A late-night House committee meeting looked more like a raucous episode of "The Jerry Springer Show," with partisan bickering out of control and one lawmaker insulting another for wearing "fake eyelashes."

May 17, 2024