PITTSBURGH — President Joe Biden assured steel union members in Pennsylvania on Wednesday of his unwavering support, announcing increased tariffs and protections for domestic manufacturing in the lead-up to the swing state’s primary for the 2024 election season. “The backbone of America has a steel spine,” Biden said. “We’re investing in American workers again.” Biden […]
Senate Democrats quickly dashed House Republicans’ effort to force the upper chamber to put impeached Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on trial. The Senate voted Wednesday that the first article of impeachment against Mayorkas is unconstitutional, effectively dismissing it, at the request of Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY). The vote was 51-48-1, with all Democrats […]
Actress Molly Ringwald, who famously played in several of director John Hughes’s coming-of-age “brat pack” movies in the 1980s, said those films were “really, really, very white.” “Those movies, the movies that I am so well known for, they were very much of the time. And if you were to remake that now, I think […]
Columbia University president Nemat Shafik confirmed during a hearing Wednesday on campus antisemitism at her school that two professors are “under investigation for discriminatory remarks.” Shafik was asked by multiple members of Congress about allegedly antisemitic remarks from several faculty members, and she confirmed during her testimony that Arab politics professor Joseph Massad and law […]
President Joe Biden has given his blessing to a new national security supplemental aid package. “I strongly support this package to get critical support to Israel and Ukraine, provide desperately needed humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza, and bolster security and stability in the Indo-Pacific,” the president said Wednesday in a prepared statement. “Israel is […]
In an attempt to drain Republican coffers and force incumbent lawmakers to compete in races, Democrats have placed challengers in every Idaho district for the first time in three decades. The Republican-dominated state, which has only 18 Democrats in its 105-seat legislature across two chambers, has faced renewed vigor from the opposition party because of […]
The Senate is holding its impeachment trial for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas after he was impeached by the House of Representatives earlier this year. The trial began Wednesday afternoon after the House impeachment managers delivered the articles of impeachment on Tuesday. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER The trial in the […]
EXCLUSIVE — Senate candidate Kari Lake is attacking Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) on inflation and the economy in her latest digital ad, attempting to tie her Democratic opponent to President Joe Biden’s low polling numbers in Arizona. In her latest digital ad released on Wednesday, Lake attacked Gallego as a “rubber stamp” for the president’s […]
Former President Donald Trump took to social media on Wednesday to criticize the jury selection process in his hush money trial in New York, saying his defense attorneys should be allowed to dismiss as many prospective jurors as they see fit. “I thought STRIKES were supposed to be ‘unlimited’ when we were picking our jury?” […]
Comedian John Leguizamo destroyed a pinata over former President Donald Trump’s growing support among Latino voters, arguing that “the Democrats are in trouble.” Leguizamo stated that President Joe Biden’s campaign is spending over $50 million to win over Latino voters, whereas Trump’s campaign is reusing an ad from 2020 to court this voter bloc. The […]