Every presidential administration selects its new Cabinet members, even when the president wins reelection. Among these is the secretary of defense, and with heightened scrutiny around Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s health on top of the election year, discussions about his successor have begun to mount. Heading into the presidential primary season, former President Donald Trump […]
Washington Examiner Magazine Editor David Mark joins Investigations Editor Sarah Bedford to discuss the updates from the final Republican presidential debate, what needs to happen in Iowa for former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley and Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) to have a chance of winning, and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s […]
A Raleigh, North Carolina, suburb is done with getting a thousand calls a year about cats roaming its neighborhoods. The town of Cary is enforcing a 50-year-old ordinance requiring all domestic animals, including cats, to be leashed outside their owner’s property. Cary Animal Services reminded the Raleigh suburb of the ordinance’s existence in a social […]
Investors are shrugging off two reports this week that showed annual inflation ticked up last month, betting that the Federal Reserve will still soon cut interest rates. The first and most closely watched report, the consumer price index, indicated that inflation ticked up to 3.4% for the year ending in December 2023, up from 3.1% the […]
ALTOONA, Iowa — Kelly Nieuwenhuis, a third-generation family farmer in northwest Iowa, said he’s been fighting daily to increase and grow the biofuels industry in the state, and it’s the No. 1 topic he’s considering when he goes to caucus on Jan. 15. “It’s absolutely the most important thing that ever happened in my farming […]
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is looking at potential travel to New Hampshire ahead of the first-in-the-nation Republican primaries to campaign against former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, against whom he issued an anti-endorsement Friday. “We’re gonna make a decision next week based on what happens in Iowa,” Paul said in an interview with the Washington Examiner. […]
Conservative attorney George Conway called Donald Trump a sociopath in response to a social media post the former president made Saturday. Conway appeared on CNN to discuss, among other things, Trump’s post in which he thanked mobster Sammy Gravano, also known as Sammy the Bull, for calling him “a legitimate guy.” “Thank you to Sammy […]
Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley is in second place in the latest Iowa poll, surpassing Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), but former President Donald Trump is still in the lead, raising questions about whether either of his opponents has any chance to catch up. The Iowa poll shows 48% of Republicans chose Trump as their first choice for the GOP […]
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) criticized Senate Republicans seeking to secure a deal on border security and aid for Ukraine and Israel, accusing those lawmakers of “basically caving on everything to the Democrats.” “I’m sick of Republicans, you see what they are doing right now in Washington with these senators doing […]
Former President Donald Trump took aim at fellow Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy on Saturday because he is “not MAGA.” Trump posted his attack on Ramaswamy on his social media platform Truth Social ahead of his rally in Iowa. Ramaswamy similarly toured the state, as its caucus, the first nominating contest in the nation, is […]
