Amid a fragile Iran war ceasefire, President Donald Trump claimed that leaders in Tehran understand they have no credible path to victory. “I call it a skirmish because Iran has no chance,” Trump said Tuesday morning during an event in the Oval Office. “They never did. They know. They express it to me when I […]
The left and right wings of the Romanian parliament united to oust the country’s center-right National Liberal Party prime minister, signaling political turmoil in the Ukraine-bordering NATO state. Romanian Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan lost a vote of no confidence on Tuesday with 281 votes in favor of removal from the 464-seat parliament — a maneuver […]
A coalition of civil rights organizations on Monday filed a lawsuit challenging a Texas law that makes illegal immigration a state crime. The 2023 law, which allows state police to arrest individuals who cross the border illegally, had previously been blocked in lower courts. A federal appeals court lifted the ban in late April, allowing […]
Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha said the Los Angeles mayoral and California gubernatorial elections are both “in play” for Republicans because of messages that are resonating with voters. “California, which you would think would be the most safe blue state, and Los Angeles, the most safe blue city in the country, they’re both now in […]
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) released the Senate Judiciary Committee’s reconciliation bill text that includes a funding provision for security-related features in President Donald Trump‘s proposed White House ballroom. The bill text has caught media attention since its release because it would allocate $1 billion toward security enhancements to Trump’s ballroom project, a project the president […]
EXCLUSIVE — The Senate GOP’s campaign arm is targeting the immigration voting record of Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA), the Democratic Party’s most vulnerable incumbent this November, who is seeking a second term in battleground Georgia. A new 30-second digital ad from the National Republican Senatorial Committee, first seen by the Washington Examiner, centers on Ossoff’s […]
Justice Samuel Alito took sharp aim at Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent on Monday to the Supreme Court’s decision to speed up the implementation of last week’s landmark Louisiana redistricting decision, writing that Jackson’s dissent “lacks restraint” and calling her rationale “baseless and insulting.” The Supreme Court granted an emergency application to issue its judgment […]
Welcome to Tuesday’s Washington Secrets. Today, we look at Marco Rubio’s quiet April, when he largely avoided journalists. All that changes Tuesday when he appears in the White House. Could it be a coincidence that he briefs the media on the same day that his chief rival for the 2028 GOP nomination is hitting the […]
The top candidates in California’s gubernatorial race will face off twice this week, starting Tuesday night, as the contest to replace term-limited Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) enters a tightly packed phase. Tuesday’s televised debate on CNN comes just one day after voters began receiving mail-in ballots for the June 2 primary election, raising the stakes for a field […]
Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, broke from his normally stoic self over a question about the existence of Iranian “kamikaze dolphins” at Tuesday’s Pentagon press briefing. When asked by the Daily Wire’s Mary Margaret Olohan about the existence of “kamikaze dolphins,” Caine showed his working knowledge of the Austin Powers movies, joking […]