Of all the major American sports, football is probably the most difficult beat for a sportswriter to tackle. Team rosters are substantially larger than they are in other sports, coaches can be notoriously cagey, coaching staffs guard information as if they’re countries guarding national security secrets, and the salary cap is so complex that one […]
DEARBORN, Michigan — Political fallout from the deadly Israel-Hamas war is reverberating strongly 6,000 miles away in this Detroit suburb, and it’s possibly threatening President Joe Biden’s reelection chances. Dearborn, with about 110,000 residents, has the largest proportion of Arab Americans in the United States. People of Middle Eastern or North African ancestry make up […]
Like so many vice presidents before her, Kamala Harris has one of the hardest jobs in Washington. She is an unpopular No. 2 to a historically unpopular President Joe Biden. She’s simultaneously serving as Biden’s point woman on the most important pieces of his agenda and is the face of a reelection campaign that is […]
When President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, in March 2010, one Republican in the House voted for it and it received zero Senate GOP votes amid a strong Democratic majority. The Republican mantra from that day forward was “Repeal.” Over the next six years, Republicans attempted to repeal […]
A federal judge denied a bid by former President Donald Trump to delay paying or posting bond for the $83.3 million judgment in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case. In an order issued on Thursday, Judge Lewis Kaplan denied a motion by the former president’s lawyers to delay the deadline to pay the January judgment […]
President Joe Biden announced a slew of policy priorities and promises in his 2023 State of the Union address. A year later as he takes the stage on Thursday night to deliver his last address ahead of the 2024 election, the Washington Examiner reviewed a list of promises and initiatives in his last speech to […]
A local investigation into the Uvalde, Texas, police’s response to last year’s Robb Elementary School shooting cleared police of wrongdoing, a departure from the Department of Justice‘s analysis. The report was made by former police detective Jesse Prado, who was commissioned by the Uvalde City Council. While outlining a series of failures, such as poor […]
President Joe Biden will draw distinctions between himself and President Donald Trump during his 2024 State of the Union address, while drawing parallels between their respective ages. “My lifetime has taught me to embrace freedom and democracy,” Biden, 81, will say Thursday, according to excerpts of his remarks as prepared for delivery provided by the […]
New York Attorney General Letitia James was met with boos when coming onstage at a New York Fire Department event Thursday. The FDNY gathered in a church in Brooklyn, New York, to promote 65 uniformed members, 29 members of the Bureau of Fire Prevention, and 34 civilian employees. As soon as James took the podium […]
Special counsel Jack Smith rejected former President Donald Trump‘s claims that the classified documents case against him in Florida should be dismissed, according to court documents filed Thursday. Smith addressed several arguments Trump had made in his requests for dismissal, including the former president’s claim that he was authorized under the Presidential Records Act to […]
