Inflation ticked up to 2.7% for the year ending in March, as measured by the personal consumption expenditures price index, which is the gauge favored by the Federal Reserve. The 0.2 percentage point rise in headline inflation reported Friday morning by the Bureau of Economic Analysis is bad news for the Fed, which is working […]
President Joe Biden is venturing into the lion’s den this weekend at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. A tough gig before a tough crowd, Biden’s at-times tense relationship with the press will be placed to one side for one night, but that will not stop reporters and news executives from appraising his performance. Biden was […]
The former CEO of a tabloid company testified for three days in former President Donald Trump‘s hush money case in New York, telling jurors about his work to bury or promote stories about Trump ahead of the 2016 election. David Pecker, who headed the National Enquirer’s parent company, American Media, Inc., was a key component […]
Pennsylvania is the ultimate battleground for 2024, with the White House, Senate, and House all poised to flip based on how voters here cast their ballots. In this series, Pining for Pennsylvania: Unlocking the crucial Keystone State, the Washington Examiner will look at the demographics, politics, and key areas that have made Pennsylvania the must-watch state of the […]
Attorneys for former President Donald Trump hinted Thursday that ex-lawyer Michael Cohen isn’t the only witness they plan to prove has an issue with telling the truth during the criminal hush money trial. Trump and his attorneys have made clear they intend to use Cohen’s history of lying to Congress and his recent admonishment by […]
An Army reservist and acquaintance of Robert Card, the gunman responsible for a mass shooting in Maine in 2023, testified on Thursday that he warned about Card’s behavior weeks before the attack occurred, the Associated Press reported. Sean Hodgson told members of his reserve unit of his concerns with Card six weeks before the mass shooting in […]
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is moving to divide Democrats on the wave of anti-Israel protests at Columbia and other universities as he attempts to overcome the fallout from an intraparty fight over Ukraine. Johnson is navigating a sense of betrayal from his right flank after allowing funding for Ukraine to pass the House on Saturday. […]
In key 2024 battleground states, some Senate Republican candidates are shifting their stances on abortion rights in an attempt to blunt Democrats’ previous success running on the issue and to embrace similar messaging outlined by former President Donald Trump. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee has adopted a stance in which he avoids calling for a […]
A press release followed by an Axios write-up this week zeroed in on a sprawling new partnership ahead of the 2024 election between TelevisaUnivision, the world’s largest Spanish-language media company, and “nonpartisan” groups to register and mobilize Hispanic voters across the United States. It’s called Vota Conmigo — or Vote With Me. The collaboration “will […]
China Foreign Minister Wang Yi claimed that the United States has suppressed his country’s development, Reuters reported. The comments came as Yi met with U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in Beijing, China on Friday in an attempt to strengthen the relationship between the two countries and settle lingering trade and policy disagreements. “And the relationship is […]
