United Auto Workers head Shawn Fain cried persecution after coming under a Department of Justice investigation over corruption allegations. After UAW Vice President Rich Boyer accused Fain of using his position to seek favors for his fiancée and her sister, and of retaliating and making false accusations against him, the DOJ launched an investigation into […]
The wave of inflation in the past few months is not expected to grow into an inflation tsunami of the kind that rocked the United States as it emerged from the pandemic. Inflation crested at nearly 9% in June 2022 under then-President Joe Biden — the worst in generations — but has generally fallen since, […]
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is facing a major test on Monday as the House returns to Washington amid threats from GOP hard-liners to paralyze the chamber until the Senate passes the Save America Act and codifies President Donald Trump’s border policies. Republican leadership was forced to scrap votes and send lawmakers home for a week […]
EXCLUSIVE — Republicans, hoping to turn the tide of Democrats’ progressive momentum against them, plan to tie two centrist Long Island Democrats to the records of Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) and socialist New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani. A new memo shared exclusively with the Washington Examiner from the National Republican Congressional Committee lays out House […]
At least 27 people are dead and another 22 are in critical condition after a fire at a bar in Bangkok, Thailand, erupted early Monday morning local time. A large blaze engulfed the Na Ladprao pub in the northern part of the nation’s capital, sending patrons fleeing into the bathrooms at the back of the […]
The United States Central Command said Sunday afternoon it launched retaliatory strikes against Iran after Tehran attacked multiple Gulf states earlier Sunday and fired at vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz. “At 5 p.m. E.T today, U.S. Central Command forces began launching more strikes against Iran to continue degrading their ability to attack civilian mariners […]
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) broke weeks of silence about his health on Sunday, saying he was hospitalized last month after he “took a fall” and he doesn’t expect “to return to the Senate floor to vote quite yet.” In a statement addressed to his constituents, McConnell revealed it was a fall that landed him in […]
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) reflected on his unlikely friendship with the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and on Graham’s role in advancing criminal justice reform following his death. In a social media video, Booker recalled approaching Graham about working together on criminal justice reform, only to be told that Graham was facing a difficult primary fight and […]
FBI Director Kash Patel said on Sunday his agency is assisting local authorities in Washington, D.C., after four-term Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a close ally of President Donald Trump, died Saturday night following a “brief and sudden illness.” “The FBI is assisting local authorities and has made every necessary resource available,” Patel said in a […]
Iran expanded its retaliatory strikes into neutral Oman and the United Arab Emirates for the first time since May on Sunday after declaring the Strait of Hormuz was closed once again. Iran unleashed a barrage of missiles and drones across the Gulf, targeting the largest swathes of nations since May. Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, the […]
