DENVER – Democrats are calling on their party to get to work during the final two years of President Donald Trump’s administration, saying the risk is too high to not find areas of common ground. At the two-day What’s Next conference in Denver, a celebration of the Democratic Party’s historic election gains, strategists and lawmakers […]
White House chief of staff Stephen Miller is cracking down on internal meetings with lobbyists in Washington, D.C., marking a departure from his predecessor. Susie Wiles, a former managing partner and lobbyist at Ballard Partners, was known for cultivating relationships with the lobbying industry during her time serving President Donald Trump. But now that she […]
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent directly blamed the Commerce Department for delaying the broader administration’s intent to place Nvidia customer Megaspeed on a special blacklist of companies that could pose a national security threat. In a CNBC interview Friday morning, Bessent said the U.S. Trade Representative and the Treasury, War, and State departments were “in favor […]
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) said he will decide in early January 2027 whether to seek the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028, putting a timetable on a decision that has fueled speculation about his political future for more than a year. “I’ll make the determination at the beginning of the year,” Newsom said in an interview […]
Iran claimed it destroyed a U.S. early-warning radar, the first attack of its kind in months, but the United States denied the claim. The U.S. and Iran have launched sporadic strikes against lower-level targets for the past several months after intensive strikes halted. Iran’s attacks usually target shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, while the […]
Top Republicans have joined a battle over the populism that the Republican Party has embraced under President Donald Trump following Democrats’ overwhelming midterm victory. The party’s decisive disadvantage on the economy has created an opening for some conservatives, including presumed challengers to Vice President JD Vance for the GOP nomination in 2028, to call for […]
Many people who have been in the workforce for a while can think back to jobs that they stayed in too long and should have left earlier. Conversely, many people regret quitting a job they should have stayed in, usually in the hope that their next move would be an improvement, professionally and/or financially. Rep. […]
“We have a bunch of gangsters, thugs, punks, thieves, and drug smugglers running the country.” These words were spoken to me 36 years ago by Richard Morse, owner of the Hotel Oloffson, as we looked down from a balcony at Port-au-Prince, the fetid capital of Haiti. The Oloffson, built in the 19th century as a […]
EXCLUSIVE — Poorly articulated healthcare positions may have cost Republicans critical Senate races after Democrats used their policy stances against them in the 2026 midterm elections, new research shows. A Plymouth Union Public Research analysis obtained exclusively by the Washington Examiner found that Democrats “spent heavily to make Senate Republicans own rising healthcare costs in […]
To state what should be obvious, I never knew Jimmy Stewart — I was 14 when he died in July 1997 — but I sometimes feel as though I talked to him from time to time. And, in a way, I did: For the last 18 years of his life, I was a friend of […]
