Washington Examiner Senior Writer Joe Concha predicts that a win for Zohran Mamdani in the New York City mayoral race will spell disaster for the Democratic Party nationally. “As it stands now, Zohran Mamdani will be the next mayor of New York. Every poll that we’re seeing here shows him up by 15 to 20 […]
(The Center Square) – Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed new laws expanding abortion access on public college campuses while vowing to make Illinois a “safe haven” for out-of-state women seeking to terminate a pregnancy. House Bill 3709 requires campus pharmacies to offer contraception and abortion pills, while House Bill 3637 strengthens Illinois’ shield law protecting providers from out-of-state prosecution. […]
Federal Emergency Management Agency employees warned members of Congress about their concerns that the agency is unprepared for another large-scale disaster under the Trump administration. In a letter to Congress titled the “Katrina Declaration,” more than 100 employees pushed back against President Donald Trump’s plan to drastically scale down the agency and shift more responsibility […]
(The Center Square) – Seven weeks after flash floods ripped through Hunt and Ingram in Kerr County, recovery and rebuilding efforts are ongoing. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott returned to the area Saturday as he has repeatedly done since July 4. This time, it was to hand out checks directly to survivors through money raised by […]
An Israeli airstrike on a hospital in the Gaza Strip has killed more than a dozen individuals, including at least four journalists with international media. Two missiles hit Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis on Monday, with video of the second impact, which struck emergency personnel responding to the first missile, caught on a livestream. “Today, […]
A posthumous memoir of Virginia Giuffre, a prominent victim of convicted sex offenders Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, will be published by Alfred A. Knopf publishers and available for purchase this fall. Giuffre, who died by suicide in April, compiled the manuscript of her book titled Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting […]
C-SPAN is adding a new televised book club that will feature the nation’s top authors and policymakers interviewed at Washington’s iconic libraries, the latest programming update from CEO Sam Feist. “America’s Book Club” will be taped before live audiences at venues such as the Library of Congress, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the National Archives. […]
(The Center Square) – As they often have throughout the summer, motorists in North Carolina are paying about 30 cents less than the nation on average for gasoline. Summer’s unofficial closing of Labor Day weekend arrives this week, with many families already in the state’s tourism meccas. The state average for a gallon of unleaded […]
France is making the stern step of summoning the American ambassador to Paris, Charles Kushner, after he alleged the country emboldened extremists by recognizing a Palestinian state. Summoning an ambassador is a noted form of displeasure, which France is using after calling Kushner’s allegations “unacceptable.” Kushner, who is Jewish, is the father of President Donald […]
President Donald Trump will crack down on so-called “cashless bail” and flag burning in three executive orders on Monday. One of the cashless bail executive orders will cover Washington, D.C., while the other will cover the country more broadly, the White House told the Washington Examiner on Monday. A White House official confirmed that under […]
