EXCLUSIVE — Republican National Committee chairman Michael Whatley said that he and the “entire Republican universe” would back Lara Trump should she decide to enter the 2026 race for North Carolina’s United States Senate seat, but he didn’t close the door on a possible run of his own. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), amid public sparring with […]
Tech mogul Elon Musk‘s public breakup with President Donald Trump and threat to form a new political party should be taken seriously amid frustrations among the MAGA base, according to top Republicans. There are fears among some Republican lawmakers that the world’s richest man could use his endless pockets to drive a wedge among conservatives […]
Trash is piling up throughout Philadelphia. Workers from the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees District Council 33 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, went on strike on July 1, 2025, at 12:01 a.m., after not reaching an agreement with the city of Philadelphia. The union includes over 9,000 city workers, including Philadelphia’s sanitation workers, responsible […]
Microsoft is laying off about 9,000 employees after applying to fill thousands of foreign worker positions in the months leading up to the mass layoffs, according to a Washington Examiner analysis of U.S. Department of Labor data. DOL quarterly statistics show that Microsoft submitted 4,776 labor condition applications (LCA), a pre-requisite for filing H-1B visa […]
A small tariff provision of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” spurred an expensive lobbying battle between special interests in the tobacco industry, including a full-court press from North Carolina’s export-dependent farming sector, where tobacco is a key cash crop. Fairness for America, a recently established nonprofit, reportedly spent at least $1.3 million on a failed […]
Jim Antle, executive editor of the Washington Examiner magazine, hosts the show Inside Scoop. Each episode features exclusive insight from the magazine’s authors and expert analysis. This week, Antle breaks down how Israel and Trump have redrawn the map of the Middle East. He also chronicles how Iran has been a struggle for past presidents […]
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani drew the ire of the Italian American community after a resurfaced social media post by the self-described democratic socialist denigrating a statue of Christopher Columbus. Mamdani’s X account posted a picture of a left hand giving a middle finger to a Columbus statue in June 2020. The image […]
President Donald Trump expressed his happiness over the renaming of a four-mile stretch of Southern Boulevard in Palm Beach County to “President Donald J. Trump Boulevard.” On Tuesday, the Palm Beach County commissioners unanimously approved the measure after Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) signed a bill authorizing the change last month. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence is located […]
Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) appeared to reveal Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D-CA) ambitions for the White House while introducing him during a South Carolina visit. Newsom departed California on Monday for a two-day tour of South Carolina. Though he hasn’t given any explicit indications of his broader ambitions, his tour of the critical Democratic primary state […]
The FBI launched a criminal investigation into former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey over their handling of the inquiry investigating possible ties between President Donald Trump and Russia. Department of Justice sources speaking with Fox News said CIA Director John Ratcliffe referred evidence of criminal misconduct from Brennan to FBI Director Kash […]
