Labor Day is over, and with it, the unofficial end to summer — and the summer driving season. Gas prices largely avoided the traditional summer-time hike this year, with costs remaining steady for the most part since Memorial Day Weekend. On Tuesday, the national average price for regular gas is $3.186 per gallon. Tuesday’s pricing […]
State and local police officers are signing up to assist President Donald Trump‘s mass deportation at a rapid pace, the Washington Examiner has learned, in a dramatic turnaround from the Biden administration. The Trump administration has seen a 563% increase in the number of state and local police departments entering 287(g) agreements with the federal […]
Pope Leo XIV took a step to show that he would continue Pope Francis’s policy of welcoming the LGBTQ community to the Catholic Church. The pontiff met on Monday with Rev. James Martin, a priest known for his LGBTQ advocacy, according to the Associated Press. Martin is also known for his book, Building a Bridge: […]
Belgium on Tuesday said it would recognize a Palestinian state after Israel‘s war with Hamas is concluded, and once certain conditions are met. Belgian Deputy Prime Minister Maxime Prévot announced that the country would partially follow the lead of several other European countries in recognizing a Palestinian state. However, unlike most others, Brussels is holding […]
Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA) will hold a joint press conference alongside former victims of sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein to help advocate a bill to release records relating to the disgraced financier. Ten victims will testify on Wednesday, some of whom haven’t spoken since Epstein’s first arrest in 2005. Speaking with Fox […]
Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) announced he will not run for reelection after 34 years in Congress. His announcement, which he made in an interview with the New York Times, follows a continuing trend of older Congress leaders stepping down after decades in power, spurred by a wider debate about the growing dominance of the elderly […]
The war in Ukraine has consumed so much TNT that there is a global shortage of the explosive. The United States has relied on TNT, or trinitrotoluene, for military and civil mining as well as construction. Previously cheap and plentiful, an investigation by the New York Times found that the global supply has been redirected […]
President Donald Trump announced that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani would receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The announcement comes two days after Giuliani, 81, was hospitalized from a high-speed car crash. It also comes 10 days before the 24th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, when Giuliani earned his fame for […]
Rep. Ilhan Omar‘s (D-MN) net worth is anywhere from $6 million to $30 million despite her claims that she’s “barely worth thousands.” In her latest financial disclosure, filed on May 14 and first reported on by the Washington Free Beacon on Monday, Omar disclosed assets valued in the millions of dollars, with most of the […]
EXCLUSIVE — Roughly 70 occupations are expected to qualify for the “No Tax on Tips” provision of President Donald Trump‘s “one big beautiful bill.” The Washington Examiner on Monday reviewed a preliminary list of the qualifying occupations compiled by Department of the Treasury officials. The list names 69 jobs across eight sectors “that customarily and […]
