Democrat Xavier Becerra continues to hold a commanding lead over Republican Steve Hilton in California’s gubernatorial race, but the gap has narrowed as the candidates head toward their November showdown, according to a poll released Thursday. Becerra leads Hilton 55% to 37% among likely voters in a UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll conducted […]
“Microaggressions” and “allyship” are out at the U.S. Foreign Service. The State Department announced Thursday that it will be overhauling policies in the diplomatic personnel system, ending a slew of protocols previously established to further diversity, equity, and inclusion goals. “The DEI agenda was embedded in the institutional culture of the Foreign Service during the […]
Two Pennsylvania voters and the Green Party of Pennsylvania are suing to remove congressional candidate Andrew Tupone from the November ballot, arguing that he is a “spoiler candidate to distract progressive voters” who was neither endorsed nor nominated by the state party. Tupone submitted signatures to run as a Green Party candidate in Pennsylvania’s 7th […]
EXCLUSIVE — President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans could find a path to improving their standing ahead of the midterm elections by focusing on a handful of kitchen-table concerns, according to new polling shared with the Washington Examiner. A national survey by the Tyson Group found broad support for policies aimed at lowering energy and […]
Vice President JD Vance said Thursday that President Donald Trump‘s immediate priority regarding the war with Iran is to lower oil and gas prices, ahead of preventing Tehran from obtaining nuclear weapons. The vice president was pressed in an interview with Fox News’s Will Cain to address “frustration” with the “seesaw nature” of the conflict, given the lack […]
The Interior Department on Thursday said vandals were responsible for bubbles filling the National World War II Memorial fountain on the National Mall. An Interior Department spokesperson confirmed to the Washington Examiner that the bubbles were the result of vandalism, and not part of a unique cleaning process as some online users speculated. Photos of […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky‘s confirmation of Ukraine’s crippling Patriot interceptor missile shortage and plea for more has showcased the dire position the country is in as it stares down another harsh winter. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and particularly after Moscow switched to an attritional military model in September 2022, Ukraine’s cities have struggled against […]
The death penalty may fully return to Washington, D.C., if a bill introduced by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) on Thursday becomes law. The legislation intends to bring back capital punishment to the federal district for the “most heinous crimes,” according to Mace’s office. The death penalty would apply to first-degree murder, terrorism, murder of a […]
Attorney General Todd Blanche called for unity at the Justice Department on Thursday, promising in his first address to its workforce to leave the agency “more faithful to its highest ideals than when I found it.” Speaking in the Great Hall at the DOJ headquarters in Washington, Blanche praised career employees and sought to reassure […]
Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha praised a New York gas station for finding an unconventional way to attract customers, calling its promotion offering discounted gas to people willing to dance “impossibly smart.” The Sunoco and Halfmoon Car Wash in Halfmoon, New York, offered customers 20% off gas and selected in-store purchases on July 30 if […]
