Former West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin is spearheading an effort to elect independent candidates through his Independent Leadership Council. The council’s stated purpose is to strategize ways to elect independent candidates in competitive elections, and comes amid a recent Gallup poll that found a record 45% of Americans identify as political independents. Manchin’s political experiment […]
Justice Elena Kagan pushed back this week on criticism of the Supreme Court for ruling in favor of the Trump administration, citing the multiple instances in which the majority on the high court pushed back on President Donald Trump in several high-profile cases last term. Kagan, who was appointed to the high court in 2010 […]
Welcome to Friday’s edition of Washington Secrets, where we are readying for the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner redux. It is meant, in part, to be a celebration of the First Amendment, so will anyone bring up the president’s attempt to subpoena New York Times reporters to find out their sources? In the meantime, we […]
Love is in the air at the Vance household, as second lady Usha Vance shared photos with Vice President JD Vance Friday of their new family of six. “Thank you for all the good wishes as we settle into life as a family of six” Usha said on X. “Meet Alec — and enjoy these […]
The lead strategist for former Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner said the campaign made strategic mistakes, weeks after he dropped out of the Maine race due to a rape allegation. Platner suspended his campaign on July 8 following a Politico report in which an ex-girlfriend alleged he raped her. Prior to that allegation, Platner stayed […]
EXCLUSIVE — The State Department said the United Nations’ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs should ensure it is protecting Gaza aid programs from suspected Hamas meddling after reporting from the Washington Examiner. OCHA is under fire after a Thursday Washington Examiner report exposed its years of cooperation with a Hamas-linked state agency to […]
President Donald Trump will host Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Tuesday. A senior White House official told the Washington Examiner on Friday that Zelensky will meet with Trump when the foreign leader travels to Washington, D.C., to attend the funeral services for the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC). Graham, who died […]
WINDER, Georgia (Associated Press) — A teenager has pleaded guilty to all 55 counts in a deadly shooting nearly two years ago at Apalachee High School in Georgia. Colt Gray, 16, entered the plea Friday without having reached a deal with prosecutors. He had previously pleaded not guilty to charges in the Sept. 4, 2024, […]
Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York slammed socialists for being unrealistic about their platform’s goals and compared it to a type of fantasy land where “everybody has everything they need.” “The Democratic Socialists of America seem to have the most energy in the Democratic Party,” York said on Fox News’s America Reports Thursday. York […]
A new poll indicates gas prices impacted by the Iran war pose sweeping challenges for the Republican Party in the 2026 midterm elections. The Politico poll indicated that many Republicans are considering voting for a different party due to gas prices, which surged following President Donald Trump’s attack on Iran in February because the conflict […]
