The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to restrict the gender on a person’s passport to his or her biological sex, halting a lower court’s ruling that had blocked the policy. The justices sided on Thursday with the administration 6-3, with the unsigned majority opinion stating that the policy requiring that a passport list […]
A newly elected Democratic New York assemblyman has declined to endorse Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) for reelection in 2026, drawing Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) to point fingers at the governor for being “toxic.” Plattsburgh town supervisor Michael Cashman, now Assemblyman-elect, said he will have conversations with Hochul but is concerned about her governance. “She and […]
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Thursday that she will not run for reelection in 2026, which has prompted reactions from both allies and opponents. Pelosi has served 20 terms in Congress since she began in 1987. Pelosi served as the first female Speaker of the House between 2007 and 2011 and again in 2019 until […]
Washington Examiner Senior Writer Joe Concha suggested that socialism “will be rejected” on a national level. “Socialists have been emboldened, and they believe now that they are the face and soul of the Democratic Party, and it may be the miscalculation of the century,” Concha said on Fox News’s Varney & Co on Thursday. “Socialist […]
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s victory provides a path forward for the Democratic Party, encouraging Democrats to follow his campaign style. Mamdani’s win over former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who ran as an independent, and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa was one of several elections in which Sanders said […]
The Coast Guard’s seizures of cocaine from drug smugglers caught at sea hit an all-time high in fiscal year 2025, most of which occurred during the Trump administration. The Department of Homeland Security military branch told the Washington Examiner on Thursday that ships patrolling the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific Ocean seized $3.8 billion worth of […]
President Donald Trump’s crusade to end the filibuster is driving a deep wedge among Senate Republicans, with new senators opening the door to weakening it and others unwilling to take a stand on what has become a GOP political land mine. In a series of hallway interviews this week, the Washington Examiner asked 41 of […]
The former Justice Department staffer whose thrown sandwich sparked a viral uproar was acquitted of misdemeanor assault Thursday afternoon, reinforcing growing concerns that Washington jurors are increasingly unwilling to convict or bring charges for certain offenders arrested amid President Donald Trump’s federal crime surge. A jury on Thursday found 37-year-old Sean Charles Dunn not guilty, […]
A federal appeals court on Thursday allowed a Texas law outlawing minors from attending “sexually oriented performances” to proceed, after a lower court previously struck down the law as unconstitutional. A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit tossed a 2023 ruling from a federal district court that had permanently […]
(The Center Square) – Texas ranks first in the country for having the best business climate in the U.S. again. In another ranking published by Site Selection magazine, Texas topped the list of states for the third year in a row. “The eighth-largest economy in the world has the best business climate in the U.S. […]
