New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) sued prediction market platform Kalshi on Friday, accusing the federally regulated exchange of operating an illegal gambling business in the state, escalating a growing legal battle over whether prediction markets fall under state gambling laws or exclusive federal oversight. The lawsuit seeks to block Kalshi from continuing to […]
President Donald Trump on Friday argued in favor of the anti-weaponization fund that his administration previously said was dead, as Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) continues to hold up acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s nomination over concerns about the fund. “Perhaps there has never been a group of people treated so badly in our Nation’s history,” […]
Dozens of people have died after mass migrant crossings from Morocco into the Spanish port territory of Ceuta reached a boiling point overnight. The eyes of the European Union have been fixated on the seven-square-mile city of Ceuta this week as thousands of migrants have poured into the city from Morocco and neighboring African countries. […]
A high-profile FIFA aide and White House Task Force for the World Cup representative resigned in protest Saturday over a controversial proposal to sell a stake in the organization’s commercial business, warning that the plan would sacrifice one of the world’s most valuable sports properties to private investors. Victor Cordeiro, a former president of the U.S. […]
Laura Loomer, one of President Donald Trump’s most influential outside allies, recently returned from Ukraine with an unexpected message for the Make America Great Again movement: she had been wrong about the war. Like many of Trump’s supporters, Loomer had long opposed U.S. military aid to Ukraine, reflecting the Republican Party’s broader divide between traditional national security hawks and the increasingly […]
Sen. John Fetterman’s (D-PA) unwavering support for Israel has made him a favorite target of progressive Democrats who accuse him of being too close to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Yet the Pennsylvania senator has taken no money from the group — unlike several Democrats considering challenging him in 2028. A Washington Examiner review […]
It looked like the tide was turning in the Democratic primary for Senate in Michigan. Fresh off socialist Graham Platner’s implosion in Maine, a poll came out showing Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) shellacking progressive Abdul el Sayed among black and working-class voters. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI), who had beaten el Sayed in the 2018 gubernatorial […]
On the one hand, President Donald Trump has presided over a 1.3% increase in real average weekly earnings since the start of his second, nonconsecutive term. Median household incomes are up an average of nearly $3,000 in real terms. While inflation did indeed briefly spike in the aftermath of the Iran offensive, all signs indicate […]
House Republicans were way down in the count. They were desperately trying to pass a procedural motion on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act to set up a final vote to approve it. The political stakes couldn’t be higher. All 212 House Democrats quickly voted no, and at one point in the middle of the night, the roll […]
The now-former manager of Troy Jackson’s Senate campaign fund in Maine, which swapped him out on Wednesday hours after a Washington Examiner inquiry, is also the treasurer of the main super PAC supporting Michigan Senate candidate Abdul el Sayed. Registration paperwork for Jackson’s newly established Senate fundraising committee shows that Peter Sarasohn, the former budget […]
