The Washington Examiner’s Tiana Lowe Doescher pointed to why inflation is having such a big impact on voters and polls ahead of the 2024 election, calling it “the hidden tax” in the United States. Doescher, a commentary writer for the Washington Examiner, pointed to new polling data that show President Joe Biden trailing former President […]
CNN’s Washington chief Sam Feist has been named the new CEO of C-SPAN, capping a 34-year career with the cable giant. Considered a straight-shooting and well-connected journalist with CNN, Feist was chosen after a two-month search to replace C-SPAN’s co-CEOs, Rob Kennedy and Susan Swain, who are stepping down this year. Feist, CNN’s Washington bureau […]
President Joe Biden underscored his record with labor union workers as he announced new, higher tariffs on Chinese imports, including a 100% rate on electric vehicles. “I’m determined that the future of electric vehicles will be made in America by union workers,” Biden told a crowd on Tuesday in the White House Rose Garden. Hurrying […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is cashing in on Donald Trump’s hush-money trial in New York just hours after appearing alongside the former president as he entered the Manhattan courthouse for the fifth week of his first criminal trial. Shortly after making remarks outside the courthouse, during which Johnson decried the charges as being politically motivated […]
Eight people were killed and 45 others were injured in a crash involving a bus carrying farm workers on a Florida state highway Tuesday morning. Around 6:35 a.m., the 2010 International Bus and a 2001 Ford Ranger pickup truck sideswiped each other, causing the bus to be pushed off the roadway, crash through a fence, […]
The Lugar Center and the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy released new bipartisan index rankings — an attempt to explain lawmakers’ willingness to cross party lines — for 2023. Overall, bipartisanship remained at historic lows, though it marginally improved from the previous Congress. In the House, bipartisanship varied the most widely. “Squad” Reps. […]
San Francisco is getting hammered for spending millions of dollars on a program that gives free booze to homeless alcoholics, but researchers are insisting the multimillion-dollar strategy has merit. Keanan Joyner, a professor and researcher in the Clinical Research on Externalizing and Addiction Mechanisms Lab at the University of California, Berkeley, called San Francisco’s Managed Alcohol […]
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) dismissed talk of his wife seeking his office in 2026 despite a poll showing her leading Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who’s been floated as a candidate, in a hypothetical poll. Casey DeSantis was a fixture on the campaign trail alongside her husband during his unsuccessful presidential bid, which ended in January, […]
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump could be leaving Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander votes on the table before November’s election, according to Asian American advocacy groups. With the country’s Asian American population and voter participation rate increasing exponentially, the groups are encouraging both campaigns to reach out to the community […]
The Israel Defense Forces struck a Hamas command room in a school run by a United Nations agency with fighter jets — killing more than 15 “terror operatives,” including 10 Hamas members and some involved in the Oct. 7 invasion of Israel. The attack took place in central Gaza’s Nuseirat, about 15 miles away from Rafah, […]
