Des Moines School Board Chairwoman Jackie Norris is dropping her Senate bid in Iowa to focus on her job after it was revealed that a former superintendent of the district lived in the United States illegally. Ian Roberts ran the state’s largest school district before Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested him after a car chase. […]
The New York City mayoral debate went by largely without incident, ending hopes from Zohran Mamdani’s opponents of a major gaffe that could dent his campaign momentum. The latest major Fox News poll, conducted Oct. 3–7 and released right before the debate, showed Mamdani with the backing of 46% of likely voters, trailed by Andrew […]
Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) and Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) announced the deployment of their states’ National Guard in anticipation of “No Kings” protests. Abbott was the first to announce the deployment of the Texas National Guard to Austin through a foreboding statement on X, warning that any disorder wouldn’t be tolerated. “Today, I directed the […]
Nuclear industry insiders are bristling at the Trump administration’s suggestion that their sector can step in and provide consumers short-term relief on skyrocketing electricity costs associated with the country’s artificial intelligence boom. President Donald Trump has put his full weight behind the American AI race, funneling billions toward constructing data center projects and linked initiatives […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is scheduled to meet President Donald Trump on Friday at the White House. He is expected to request that the president provide long-range Tomahawk missiles to use in Ukraine’s war against Russia. However, on Thursday, Zelensky met with officials from multiple U.S. weapons and energy companies, which Ukraine’s president mentioned on […]
High-dollar dinners, oceanside retreats, and a birthday party for a lawmaker’s dog may fool the common observer into thinking the federal government is not in its third week of a shutdown. Little has changed for members of Congress since the entire government’s funding lapsed on Oct. 1, forcing some 2 million federal employees to be […]
House GOP appropriators are growing frustrated with the duration of the government shutdown, arguing they cannot do their jobs and will not bring the remaining full-year funding bills to the floor until the government reopens. All 12 appropriations cardinals told the Washington Examiner they are concerned about the time being lost as the shutdown carries […]
Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott (R-SC) has had a busy 10 months-plus advancing legislation, approving nominations, conducting oversight, and also chairing the National Republican Senatorial Committee in the lead-up to the 2026 midterm elections. But Scott, 60, said he is taking the work in stride and successfully balancing his legislative responsibilities and his job […]
President Donald Trump’s executive order to criminalize burning the American flag isn’t the first Republican effort to ban the provocative protest. In fact, the party came within a single vote of getting a constitutional amendment prohibiting desecration of the flag through Congress two decades ago. The obstacle, then as now, is a 1989 Supreme Court decision that […]
JERUSALEM — President Donald Trump‘s historic ceasefire plan between Israel and Hamas passed its first hurdle on Oct. 13, when the last 20 living Israeli hostages in captivity returned home to a grateful nation exhausted by two years of unrelenting war. Despite Trump’s reported anger at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to attack Hamas […]
