Oil prices soared on Monday amid the ongoing conflict between the United States, Israel, and Iran. The price of Brent Crude, the world’s benchmark for crude oil, reportedly climbed to $120 a barrel for a period on Monday before later dropping to around $110. Oil prices are now “50% more expensive” than before the conflict […]
EXCLUSIVE — Dozens of Minnesota school districts have adopted policies enabling, and in some cases requiring, public funds to be spent on race-based initiatives, the Washington Examiner has learned. At least 50 school districts in Minnesota have adopted race-based funding policies, including some of the largest in the state, giving themselves the green light to […]
Many United States officials were none too pleased with recent Israeli military strikes on Iranian oil facilities. A video of the strikes went viral on social media over the weekend, showing massive fires in Tehran, Iran, after the operation. Thirty oil facilities were struck in the airstrikes by Israel on Saturday. The magnitude of the […]
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is calling for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to be removed from the royal line of succession for his “deplorable” actions, weeks after being arrested over suspicion of misconduct in public office in connection with the Jeffrey Epstein case. Carney said the former prince’s actions that caused Mountbatten-Windsor to be stripped of his royal titles […]
A federal judge on Saturday voided mass layoffs at Voice of America after ruling Kari Lake’s appointment invalid, a major rejection of President Donald Trump’s attempts to dismantle the government-funded news group. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, in a 17-page opinion, concluded that Lake was ineligible to serve as the acting CEO of U.S. Agency […]
Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha applauded late-night host Bill Maher’s “craptastically awesome” switch-up on Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and the U.S. president’s involvement with foreign conflict. Maher read Schiff a statement from “the administration” that said the president had “the constitutional authority to direct the use of military force” since he could determine if this […]
Iran’s Assembly of Experts names Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as the country’s new supreme leader, state media reported on Sunday, following the opening strike in the nine-day U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, was appointed by a committee of senior Shiite clerics after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the highest authority […]
Former President Barack Obama announced on Saturday the dedication of his presidential center, with community-wide celebrations spanning the Juneteenth weekend and attendance by living presidents, though notably excluding President Donald Trump. The Obama Foundation shared that the community-based center located on the South Side of Chicago, in the city’s Jackson Park neighborhood, will be held […]
Sens. Rick Scott (R-FL) and Mike Lee (R-UT) pushed back on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) framing of the SAVE America Act as “Jim Crow 2.0” on Sunday. President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he will not sign any other bill until the SAVE Act reaches his desk, saying it “supersedes everything else.” The […]
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) said Sunday that deputy White House chief of staff Stephen Miller is a “big problem” for the Trump administration as it seeks to deliver on border security. Tillis said he is glad President Donald Trump “moved on” from Kristi Noem’s leadership at the Department of Homeland Security, expressing hope that his […]