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 […]
President Donald Trump waived executive privilege for Kevin O’Connor, former President Joe Biden’s physician, in a House investigation into the cover-up of the president’s mental and physical decline. In a letter from Gary Lawkowski, Deputy Counsel to the President, obtained by the Washington Examiner, the former White House physician was told that “extraordinary events” constituted […]
President Donald Trump hinted he could slap a 200% tariff on overseas pharmaceutical companies “very soon.” Trump has long hinted at pharmaceutical tariffs to bring the sensitive industry back to the U.S., but has so far held off on the risky measure. He revived these efforts on Tuesday, hinting at new tariffs targeting the industry […]
Billionaire Elon Musk indicated Tuesday that releasing files related to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein will be a major goal for his third party. President Donald Trump and his administration confirmed Tuesday it had finished its investigation into Epstein, in which the FBI and Department of Justice concluded Epstein didn’t have a client list. Musk, […]
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor broke from her usual alliance with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson by siding with the Trump administration to lift a judge’s order that paused the order to carry out mass layoffs across the federal bureaucracy. The 8-1 unsigned order from the high court allows federal agencies to resume implementing President Donald Trump’s February executive order instructing […]
