White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed on Wednesday that President Donald Trump wants to denaturalize members of Minnesota’s Somali community involved in yearslong, billion-dollar fraud schemes. The scandal, which has already produced dozens of federal indictments in recent weeks, has proven a political godsend for the Trump administration, which is hoping to turn the […]
Former Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to hit the campaign trail next year, boosting down-ballot Democrats as she eyes another run for the party’s presidential nomination in 2028. If Harris decides a third time will be the charm, she will have a lot more than 107 days — the length of her stay on […]
Former Republican Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl has been diagnosed with dementia, he announced in a statement on Tuesday. The longtime public servant completed four full terms in the U.S. House from 1987 to 1995 and three full terms in the U.S. Senate from 1995 to 2013. He then briefly returned to the upper chamber in […]
The House will return on Jan. 6, and with it, some 10% of lawmakers will start their final year in the lower chamber, either retiring or seeking higher office in the 2026 midterm elections. The lower chamber will get its first departure on Jan. 5. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) announced in November that she […]
A wave of new state laws taking effect in 2026 covers everything from wages and workplace protections to gender-neutral bathrooms in public schools, firing squads, and taxes. Forty-three states will ring in the new year with notable tax changes, according to the Tax Foundation. Eight states will lower their individual income tax rates, while Ohio will […]
President Donald Trump is closing a seismic year as the country’s commander in chief. Since the first day of his second administration, when he issued 26 executive orders, 12 presidential memos, and four proclamations, the most first-day actions of any U.S. president, Trump has reshaped Washington, D.C. He hasn’t had it all his own way, […]
New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is weeks away from possibly enacting the most progressive policies the largest city in the United States has ever seen. But it won’t be easy for him. Many of the ambitious plans will require outside approval from powers more moderate than he is. Although his promises helped catalyze his socialist […]
District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser, once a defiant figure against President Donald Trump’s first administration, has registered her most cordial year with Trump in 2025. As she brings her mayoral chapter to a close at the end of next year, Bowser has struck a much different, more appeasing tone with Trump in the first […]
Magazine executive editor Jim Antle brings to life the pages of the Washington Examiner magazine in the show Inside Scoop. Each episode features exclusive insight from the article authors and expert analysis. On this New Year’s Eve special episode of Inside Scoop, Antle covers Jay Caruso’s article on how inflation and the economy will be […]
Republicans and the Trump administration are pushing for the denaturalization of any immigrant-turned United States citizen who is found to have stolen U.S. tax dollars and fraudulently obtained Minnesota welfare funds. Somali immigrants have been accused of orchestrating a successful billion-dollar fraud ring that siphoned large sums of money from the U.S. government intended for […]
