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- Pro-Palestinian protesters hurl objects at Biden during Ireland visit
A swarm of pro-Palestinian protesters threw objects, including what appeared to be milk, at former President Joe Biden on Tuesday as he visited Ireland to attend an event in honor of his son, Hunter. Video footage showed protesters yelling phrases, such as “Blood on your hands” and “Genocide Joe,” as Biden was being escorted into
- Ending discrimination against Israel at the UN is an American interest
Something exceedingly rare occurred at the United Nations on Nov. 6. Simply put, Israel was treated like a normal member state. Well, almost. The occasion was the election of Shai Mizrahi, a senior official in the Israeli State Comptroller’s office, to serve on the United Nations Independent Audit Advisory Committee, which advises the General Assembly
- Veterans kept their promise. Our votes make sure America keeps its own
Americans should treat Veterans Day as more than a holiday of parades and posts. It is a moment to renew the promise we made to the men and women who raised their right hand and for the country to ask what it owes them in return. That starts with healthcare. Veterans deserve timely access to
- WATCH LIVE: Trump delivers Veterans Day remarks at Arlington National Cemetery
President Donald Trump is set to deliver remarks at Arlington National Cemetery Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. to commemorate Veterans Day. Before the speech, Trump and First Lady Melania Trump will participate in the 2026 National Veterans Day Wreath Laying Ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Vietnam veterans on what they want the younger
- Progressive Caucus announces opposition to permitting bill over environmental law reforms
The Congressional Progressive Caucus formally announced its opposition to the bipartisan permitting bill intended to make it easier to build energy, transmission, and other infrastructure projects across the country. The caucus, which represents nearly 100 members of the House and one in the Senate, is opposing the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act over its
- White House warns House Democrats not to harass staff with oversight investigations
The White House is warning House Democrats not to get personal as they prepare for new investigations in the majority come January. The Office of the White House Counsel wrote to Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) this week, cautioning him that investigations may cross into criminal activity if they’re used to intimidate or obstruct officials from
- Trumpworld eager to ‘take on radical left’ with Republican minority leaders
White House aides and people in President Donald Trump‘s political orbit were pleased to see Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Sen. John Thune (R-SD) elected to lead Republicans in the House and Senate, arguing that they align with Trump’s plan to “take on the radical left.” Jordan, who has never held a leadership role across
- Russia and Ukraine settle on large prisoner swap after no major developments from talks
Russia and Ukraine have agreed to a large-scale prisoner exchange following two days of U.S.-brokered peace talks in Abu Dhabi. Special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, led the American delegation in the trilateral negotiations with Russian and Ukrainian officials, which concluded Wednesday. The talks produced progress on humanitarian issues, including
- December Supplemental Security direct payment up to $994 goes out in 20 days
The December 2026 Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $994 for an individual filer, will be sent to recipients in 20 days. SSI payments are typically issued on the first day of each month, or on the last business day of the prior month if the first day falls on a federal holiday. Recipients
- History repeats itself. Will Washington learn?
Divided government at the national level may be the best election outcome we could have hoped for. Why? Because one party controlling both Congress and the presidency has not worked out all that well in recent decades when it comes to deficits and debt. In 2001, former President George W. Bush and a Republican Congress
- Bessent moves to military base due to Iranian assassination threat
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has reportedly relocated from his Washington-area residence to a military base after U.S. officials received an advance threat against his life from Iran. Bessent has played a central role in the Trump administration’s efforts to weaken Iran economically. He has overseen initiatives dubbed “Economic Fury” and “Economic Outcast,” which seek to
- Americans across the political spectrum view MAGA as a ‘loser’: Poll
People across the political spectrum view President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement as among the biggest losers of last week’s midterm elections, according to new polling suggesting the Republican Party’s sweeping losses have increased questions about the president’s political influence. The Nov. 3 elections delivered a significant blow to Republicans, with Democrats making substantial
- Our military has a gambling problem
We are now a nation of gamblers. Sports betting was once relegated to casinos and local bookmakers. Today, apps have put a 24-hour sportsbook directly into the pockets of Americans. This shift carries acute risks for service members and veterans. A month after 9/11, one of us, David Yeager, deployed to a U.S. base in
- The West stopped finding bombs. That’s when the conquest began
More than two decades ago, Sheikh Yusuf al Qaradawi, the Muslim Brotherhood’s most influential cleric, predicted that Islam would return to Europe as a conqueror. Then he added the sentence that matters: This time, the conquest would come “not by the sword but by preaching and ideology.” He called his doctrine wasatiyya, the moderate middle
- Iran’s Guiana backdoor: Contested barrels, ghost flags, and the prison pipeline
Tehran’s maritime foothold in northern South America is not an improvised gambit; it is the calculated maturation of an architecture drafted two decades ago. In 2006, Iran and Venezuela formalized a joint shipping and petrochemical pact engineered expressly to move crude beyond Western financial clearinghouses. That arrangement quickly supplied the corporate blueprint for a constellation
- Vietnam veterans on what they want the younger generation to remember on Veterans Day
Veterans returned to Vietnam for the first time since the end of the war in the movie Where We Once Stood. Veterans featured in the film gathered with their families and fellow servicemen at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., for a first look at their stories on the big screen. Vietnam veterans who attended
- Iran’s potential defectors are watching Washington
Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s message to the G7 — that Washington intends to maintain severe economic pressure on Iran — has an audience beyond the diplomats gathered in Paris. It also matters to the people inside Iran’s security establishment who may someday have to choose between protecting the regime and abandoning it. For an
- Trump’s new immigration proposal could go further than 2018 DACA deal
President Donald Trump teased his openness this week to a deal that provides a pathway to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants in the United States, but it is not something that he can do alone. Trump’s openness to a “deal” to allow illegal immigrants who have lived and worked in the country for 10
- Why Stephen Miller can salvage Trump’s legislative future
In the immediate fallout of the bruising midterm election results, President Donald Trump sat down with 60 Minutes and candidly diagnosed the primary culprit behind the Republican collapse: “bad messaging.” While voters expressed deep economic anxieties over persistent inflation and geopolitical overextension, the president insisted the underlying record remained strong. His structural solution arrived almost
- Did the blue wave leave Gavin Newsom behind?
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) spent much of the past year trying to establish himself as the Democrat most willing to take the fight directly to President Donald Trump. He campaigned across the country, raised money for Democratic candidates in the South and Northeast, waged a messaging war with the White House, and orchestrated a California
- Why the CoreWeave and Nebius reports are so important to the AI build-out
The financial markets are increasingly concerned about true demand for the computing services that are at the heart of the AI revolution. Anthropic, a leading developer of frontier AI models, is expected to go public next week. It will be valued at around $1.4 trillion, which sounds fantastic. The problem? The expected valuation has dropped
- Second round of November Social Security payments goes out in 7 days
The second round of November Social Security payments for retirees, now capped at $5,181, will be issued in seven days. When will payments arrive? The second round will go out on Wednesday, Nov. 18, to those born between the 11th and 20th of a month. The first round went out on Tuesday, Nov. 10, to
- The Epstein files obsession also enabled the midterm election debacle
Buried in the coverage of Judge Darrin Gayles’s dismissal of President Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation suit against the Wall Street Journal was one factoid emblematic of the country’s obsession with convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Trump sued the outlet when it broke a front-page story about an album celebrating Epstein’s 50th birthday that apparently
- Democrats could actually kill the Electoral College
Have you heard of the National Popular Vote Compact? It calls for votes from the Electoral College from participating states to pledge their electors to the popular vote winner instead of the winner of their state. As of today, 22 states have signed on, including California and its 54 electoral votes. At least for now,
- South Yemeni leaders to US: Cut your losses in Yemen and support an independent south
Yemen’s Southern Transitional Council has a simple message for Washington: cut your losses in the war with the Houthis and help establish an anti-Houthi breakaway state. When Riyadh and its Yemeni allies launched airstrikes on Sanaa airport on July 13, reigniting the Yemeni civil war, the anti-Houthi coalition could hardly have envisioned the conflict going
- Democrats want to compete in the South in 2028. They see black voters as the key
Black voters delivered Democrats a series of shocking victories in last week’s midterm elections, renewing debate that the path to the White House in 2028 could run through the South. Political leaders are calling for national Democratic support in Southern states to increase before the next presidential contest, and for 2028 hopefuls to prioritize black
- UN denies working with Hamas-loving Gaza ‘aid’ group funded by American Marxist
EXCLUSIVE — A U.N. agency accused a pro-war Gaza “aid” provider of falsely presenting itself as a U.N. partner in comments to the Washington Examiner. The Sameer Project, founded in 2024, has claimed on its website and X posts that it works with the U.S.-funded United Nations Children’s Fund to give humanitarian resources such as
- Inside Scoop: Blue wave crashes, Democrats lawyer up, AI and your guns
Jim Antle, the magazine’s executive editor, brings to life the pages of the Washington Examiner’s magazine in the show Inside Scoop. Each episode features exclusive insight from the article authors and expert analysis. On this week’s episode, Antle examines the Democrats’ sweeping victories. President Donald Trump got one of the rarest things in American politics:
- Don’t blame Israel for Republican midterm losses
Asked by Ross Douthat of 60 Minutes to explain why Republicans suffered such a historic defeat last Tuesday, President Donald Trump said the No. 1 reason his party lost was that he was personally absent from the ballot. He then cited the Iran war and its effect on gas prices before naming Israel. “There seems
- ICE issues detainer for Honduran who allegedly tried to storm cockpit midflight
Immigration and Customs Enforcement lodged a detainer for a Honduran national who allegedly tried to storm the cockpit on a United Airlines flight late Monday. Rony Alexander Gomez-Alberto, 34, was arrested after he allegedly threatened to blow up the airplane midflight with a bomb he claimed to have in his possession. The passenger jet was
- Three dead after car strikes pedestrians in North Hollywood
Three people died on Tuesday after a car crashed into a food stand near a North Hollywood bus stop. The Los Angeles Fire Department said three people were pronounced dead at the scene and three others in critical condition were taken to a nearby hospital. The incident unfolded at approximately 5:55 p.m. local time. The
- Pelosi one of 11 Democrats who failed to vote in Hegseth impeachment bid
Eleven House Democrats, including Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), missed the vote to advance the articles of impeachment against War Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday. The impeachment bid is effectively dead after the Republican-controlled House voted 211-204 to refer the articles of impeachment to the House Judiciary Committee. The move will most likely keep them stuck
- Republicans recoil over Nvidia CEO spy allegations as feds investigate: ‘I lost my breath’
Senate Republicans pressed for answers Tuesday over allegations that Chinese intelligence targeted Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, raising questions about who in the Trump administration knew of the suspected operation, whether the FBI should have warned Huang, and how federal officials vetted Chinese companies cleared to handle Nvidia’s advanced chips. “I lost my breath,” Sen. John
- Judge denies BBC bid to dismiss Trump defamation lawsuit
A federal judge in Florida has denied the BBC’s bid to dismiss President Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the British broadcaster. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Kuntz, an appointee of Trump, determined that the president’s complaint plausibly alleged that the BBC “acted with actual malice” by editing two comments in a documentary that made
- Jim Jordan’s ascent to minority leader represents new chapter for Republicans
Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan’s (R-OH) election as minority leader represents a quiet admission from House Republicans that the conference needed a new playbook if they hope to rebuild after the 2026 midterm elections. Republicans on Tuesday declined the seasoned experience of Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), who has served in leadership since 2014 and as
- Kennedys sue to block Trump arch, saying it will overshadow JFK and RFK graves
Nine members of the Kennedy family have sued to block construction of President Donald Trump’s proposed 250-foot triumphal arch in Washington, D.C., opposite Arlington National Cemetery. The plaintiffs filed the lawsuit in D.C. federal court on Tuesday, arguing that the structure will permanently overshadow the grave sites of former President John F. Kennedy, former Attorney
- Ted Budd to run for second Senate term in swing state North Carolina
EXCLUSIVE — Sen. Ted Budd (R-NC) will run for a second term in the Senate in 2028, an early announcement that spares Republicans an open seat in purple North Carolina. “That’s the plan. Absolutely, I’m in,” Budd, 55, told the Washington Examiner at the Capitol on Tuesday. “This is an awesome state. It’s an honor
- Homan at the top of Democrats’ oversight target list, top House Democrat says
House Democratic Caucus Chairman Pete Aguilar (D-CA) said on Tuesday that White House border czar Tom Homan is “at the very top” of the list of targets for the incoming Democratic-controlled House oversight committee. “Tom Homan is at the very top of the list, I think, from the perspective of the oversight committee, wanting to
- Trump drops appeals court nominee opposed by Arkansas senators
The White House withdrew President Donald Trump’s nomination of U.S. District Judge Lee Rudofsky to the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday after Sens. John Boozman (R-AR) and Tom Cotton (R-AR) opposed his elevation. Trump will instead nominate their preferred candidate, Arkansas Supreme Court Associate Justice Cody Hiland. The swap came a day
- Nvidia taps former acting US attorney to investigate CEO Jensen Huang
Nvidia has hired a former federal prosecutor and a Wall Street law firm to investigate CEO Jensen Huang, who is facing scrutiny for having an extramarital romantic relationship with an alleged Chinese spy. “The independent members of the NVIDIA Board have retained former acting U.S. Attorney of the Southern District of New York Joon H.