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What bills Harris would sign as president — and how the filibuster might stop her

Vice President Kamala Harris has begun to outline the legislation she would sign if elected president — but Democrats have their sights equally set on one of the biggest obstacles to passing those bills: the Senate filibuster. At the Democratic National Convention on Thursday night, Harris listed several pieces of legislation that she would support […]

Reporter’s Notebook: Updates on Supreme Court ruling on guns

Washington Examiner Supreme Court reporter Kaelan Deese joins magazine executive editor Jim Antle to discuss the latest Supreme Court ruling on guns and developments in former President Donald Trump‘s legal troubles in New York, including his appeal of the verdict in his hush money case and whether state prosecutors coordinated with the Justice Department.

Gas prices: Lowest in months as another day of decreases hit the pumps

Gas prices dropped again on Monday, as the average price for a gallon of regular gas fell to $3.351, according to AAA. This was a decrease from the average price for a gallon of regular gas last week, when it was $3.411, and a month ago, when it cost $3.519 per gallon. Monday’s price for […]

Supreme Court summer recess is anything but quiet

Justices on the Supreme Court are not due to return to their chambers for another six weeks, but the summer has been anything but quiet for the nine black robes. On Thursday, the high court agreed to revive part of a Republican-backed Arizona law that aims to deter illegal voting in the state. They also […]

Democrats start to shed Harris’s ‘underdog’ label in battle against Trump

CHICAGO — Vice President Kamala Harris has repeatedly referred to herself as a political underdog as she prepares for the fall fight in her new role as the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee. But with her persistently strong polling and fundraising numbers, Democrats at the party‘s national convention in Chicago last week are starting to consider […]

Three hurdles Utah governor’s Democratic challenger will need to overcome to pose a threat

Rep. Brian King (D-UT) is looking to overcome critical challenges in his battle to unseat Gov. Spencer Cox (R-UT) this November.  Utah is a red state where Republican voters outnumber Democrats by over a 3-to-1 margin. The last time a Democratic presidential candidate won the state was in 1964, when Lyndon Johnson secured a landslide […]

Alaskans could repeal ranked choice voting in November

Alaska is one of a few states that has ranked choice voting as part of its elections, but a ballot measure in November could change that. In 2020, voters narrowly passed Ballot Measure 2, which instituted a nonpartisan top-four primary and ranked choice general election, but in 2024 a different Ballot Measure 2 would essentially […]

Landslide in Alaskan city causes mandatory evacuations and leaves one person dead

A landslide in the city of Ketchikan, Alaska, left one person dead and three others injured on Sunday. It happened at approximately 4 p.m. local time, destroying several homes and endangering part of the city’s population. City officials called for mandatory evacuations in the area. A local community center and the city’s Ketchikan High School were […]

Harris sketches out plans on immigration amid GOP border attacks

Vice President Kamala Harris sketched out in broad strokes how she would handle the border in a Thursday night address accepting the Democratic nomination for president in Chicago. However, her pivot to the center on immigration, a departure from her 2020 views, has not quieted Republican criticism on what promises to be one of the […]

Trump suggests he could skip ABC News debate against Harris: ‘Stay tuned!’

Former President Donald Trump suggested he may skip the Sept. 10 presidential debate against Vice President Kamala Harris hosted by ABC News. In a Truth Social post on Sunday night, Trump said to “Stay tuned” after he laid out the reasons why he may skip the debate, which included Harris turning down debating on other […]
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