Aryssa Damron is a 2018 fall intern at the Washington Free Beacon. She is a graduate student at the University of Kentucky and holds a B.A. in English from Yale University. Prior to working at the Free Beacon, she interned with Simon & Schuster, Regnery Publishing, Conservative Book Club, and the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute.
After three-quarters of a century relying more heavily on foreign oil, the United States became a net oil exporter in 2018, a step toward what President Donald Trump calls "energy independence." 
Comedian and actor Kevin Hart now says he won't host the Oscars as a result of blowback from tweets he wrote between 2009 and 2011. 
Bloomberg News reporters are worrying for their future should the billionaire owner of Bloomberg L.P. run for president in 2020. 
Republican Brad Raffensperger has defeated Democrat John Barrow in the runoff to become Georgia's next secretary of state, taking the office once held by Governor-elect Brian Kemp (R.). 
An official in the administration of New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D.) testified on Tuesday about the sexual assault she says she suffered at the hands of a senior campaign worker, accusing the governor's staff of failing to act properly in response to her report of rape. 
Rep. Liz Cheney (R., Wyo.) announced her support for the Trump administration's decision to remove the United States from the Intermediate-Rang Nuclear Forces Treaty if Russia does not comply within 60 days, saying on Tuesday action must be taken to counter the "grave the threat from Russia." 
Brenda Snipes, the embattled Broward County election supervisor who oversaw the recount of the Florida Senate and gubernatorial races this year, announced Saturday she was reversing her decision to resign. 
