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Gas prices: Increase at the pumps after setting record low for 2024

The national average price for a gallon of regular gas increased on Tuesday, rising to $3.067 compared to Monday’s price of $3.053. Today’s price is more expensive than gas prices in the nation from a week ago, when the national average cost for regular gas was $3.063 per gallon. Despite the increase, gas prices are […]

Trump tees up policy clash with GOP Senate over Cabinet picks

Much of the drama over President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks has focused on personal scandals or their professional qualifications. But there are also brewing policy clashes between nominees and the Republican senators tasked with holding hearings and confirming them, lawmakers who have otherwise offered Trump a great deal of deference in supporting his choices. Policy […]

Trump tries to bring his coalition to Washington, but Republicans are wary

President-elect Donald Trump was elected by the broadest political coalition of any Republican presidential nominee in decades, but he will soon discover how big the tent can be while governing. Trump’s supporters in the 2024 election ranged from hardcore Republicans to people who had never backed a GOP presidential ticket before. His voters included the […]

Trump accelerates political news cycle with return to the Oval Office

President-elect Donald Trump is shaking up what has been a sleepy final weeks of Joe Biden’s presidency with a flurry of nominations that are setting the tempo for his second term. Trump rolled out the most controversial choices for his Cabinet early, giving days of oxygen to nominees who may not stand a chance at […]

Capitol’s new crop: The four House Republicans poised to become MAGA champions

The 2024 election cycle has ended, with Republicans holding control of all three branches of government. The Washington Examiner interviewed over two dozen new members as they prepare to take office in January. Part 2 of Capitol’s new crop will focus on four incoming House Republicans who are poised to be champions of President-elect Donald […]

More than half of US now opposes military aid for Ukraine: poll

People in the United States appear to be growing weary of sending military aid to Ukraine, according to new polling results published on Nov. 25 by CBS/YouGov.  After nearly three years of fighting, people in the United States appear to be growing weary of aiding Ukraine in its war with Russia. A new poll found […]

DOJ presses forward with charging Jan. 6 defendants in lame-duck administration

The Department of Justice has brought new charges against several Jan. 6 defendants in the wake of Donald Trump’s election victory, even as the president-elect signals that his DOJ will take a sharp turn away from prosecutions related to the riot when he takes office in less than two months. The DOJ has continued to project a business-as-usual approach to its yearslong […]

Biden administration spent nearly $400,000 interviewing transgender people in India

President Joe Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services spent six figures paying Drexel University researchers to interview transgender people in India, according to federal records. Between March 2021 and February 2024, HHS paid out $389,087 to a team of academics at Drexel to perform “quantitative” interviews with 30 transgender men across Delhi and Mumbai, […]

Trump demands an apology from the New York Times for ‘years of Trump coverage so wrong’ 

For years, the New York Times and President-elect Donald Trump have feuded. The noted left-wing news publication regularly published news and opinion articles that were hypercritical of Trump, seemingly ever since he entered politics as a presidential candidate.  The back-and-forth banter was cyclical insofar as the New York Times would write something negative about Trump […]

Pro-Harris group paid $10 million to companies linked to its founders

The largest outside group that supported Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election paid companies owned by or otherwise linked to its founders more than $10 million for consulting services, records show. Future Forward, the pro-Harris group, disbursed the funds between 2022 and 2024, according to Federal Election Commission filings and tax documents filed […]
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