The Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to take up a case challenging a Virginia high school’s efforts to promote diversity in education, rejecting an appeal by a coalition of parents of students who say a Virginia public school’s admissions policy racially discriminates against Asian Americans. Despite a forceful dissent by Republican-appointed Justices Clarence Thomas and […]
The second wave of February’s three Social Security payments, worth up to $4,873 for the highest earners who retire at 70, will go out to a second group of retirees on Wednesday. Retired seniors born on or between the 11th and 20th of their birth month will receive the second payment this Wednesday, according to […]
United Nations experts have called for an independent investigation into allegations that Israeli forces have violated the rights of Palestinian women in Gaza and the West Bank. The U.N.’s Office of the High Commissioner said in a statement on Monday the allegations, which Israeli officials denounced as “despicable and unfounded,” include the extrajudicial killing of […]
The Democratic National Committee has deleted a social media post made to honor recent Democratic presidents. The post left out former President Jimmy Carter. The post had been made to commemorate Presidents Day, and showed President Joe Biden and former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton in the photo. Carter, 99, was not included in […]
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is delivering a State of the Race speech ahead of the South Carolina Republican presidential primary. Haley is expected to begin speaking at noon EST in Greenville, South Carolina. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER She is the only remaining major challenger to former President Donald […]
Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) is trailing her chief Democratic opponent in multiple ways this election cycle as she struggles to distance herself from him while under a Justice Department investigation. Bush is behind her main primary challenger, Wesley Bell, by 22 points in a New York Post poll reported earlier this month, and she is […]
(The Center Square) – The largest cities in Texas with the greatest taxpayer burdens are primarily run by Democrats, according to an analysis of financial data published by Truth in Accounting. In the latest comprehensive analysis of the fiscal health of the 75 most populous cities in the U.S., 53 did not have enough money […]
Senate Republicans are urging Vice President Kamala Harris and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to step up and take the lead on impeachment proceedings for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Mayorkas was impeached by the House last week, setting the secretary up for a possible trial in the Senate that will most likely place […]
“Americans no longer have faith in their leaders,” John Burtka writes in his new book, Gateway to Statesmanship: Selections from Xenophon to Churchill. And to help address this problem, Burtka has assembled excerpts from 20 works that he believes can revive the “mirrors for princes” literary tradition that once guided Western leaders for generations. In […]
New congressional maps in several states are set to change the political landscape of 2024, aiding either Democrats or Republicans as they look to flip control in Congress. Wisconsin became the latest state to approve new congressional maps, with Gov. Tony Evers (D-WI) signing the Republican-approved legislative boundaries into law this weekend. New York, Louisiana, […]
