A wave of new state laws taking effect in 2026 covers everything from wages and workplace protections to gender-neutral bathrooms in public schools, firing squads, and taxes. Forty-three states will ring in the new year with notable tax changes, according to the Tax Foundation. Eight states will lower their individual income tax rates, while Ohio will […]
President Donald Trump is closing a seismic year as the country’s commander in chief. Since the first day of his second administration, when he issued 26 executive orders, 12 presidential memos, and four proclamations, the most first-day actions of any U.S. president, Trump has reshaped Washington, D.C. He hasn’t had it all his own way, […]
New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is weeks away from possibly enacting the most progressive policies the largest city in the United States has ever seen. But it won’t be easy for him. Many of the ambitious plans will require outside approval from powers more moderate than he is. Although his promises helped catalyze his socialist […]
District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser, once a defiant figure against President Donald Trump’s first administration, has registered her most cordial year with Trump in 2025. As she brings her mayoral chapter to a close at the end of next year, Bowser has struck a much different, more appeasing tone with Trump in the first […]
Magazine executive editor Jim Antle brings to life the pages of the Washington Examiner magazine in the show Inside Scoop. Each episode features exclusive insight from the article authors and expert analysis. On this New Year’s Eve special episode of Inside Scoop, Antle covers Jay Caruso’s article on how inflation and the economy will be […]
Republicans and the Trump administration are pushing for the denaturalization of any immigrant-turned United States citizen who is found to have stolen U.S. tax dollars and fraudulently obtained Minnesota welfare funds. Somali immigrants have been accused of orchestrating a successful billion-dollar fraud ring that siphoned large sums of money from the U.S. government intended for […]
New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who is set to leave office this week, said on Tuesday he will be attending the inauguration of Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani after all. The outgoing mayor revealed he made the decision after speaking with his successor. “We communicated this afternoon, and he made it clear that he would like […]
Democratic candidate Renee Hardman won the Iowa Senate special election on Tuesday, preventing Republicans from regaining two-thirds control of the state’s upper chamber. Hardman defeated Republican candidate Lucas Loftin by nearly 45 percentage points, according to the election results, which showed that more than 95% of the votes were in by late Tuesday. The special election […]
The Department of Health and Human Services announced on Tuesday that all child care payments to Minnesota have been frozen in response to the widespread fraud allegations under federal investigation. The move taken by HHS concerns Somali-run day care centers that are allegedly benefiting from government payments issued by the Administration for Children and Families. […]
A federal judge has ordered the Department of Justice to turn over internal records tied to its decision to investigate and charge Salvadoran migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia, signaling growing judicial skepticism that senior DOJ leadership may have pushed the prosecution while publicly denying involvement. The order, issued earlier this month by U.S. District Judge Waverly […]
