# Washington Examiner: latest headlines > HelixNews · Web page: https://helixnews.one/source/washington-examiner · All pages for agents: https://helixnews.one/llms.txt - Type: Magazine - Country: United States - Website: https://washingtonexaminer.com - About 12.9 headlines a day - First to report 23% of 43 shared stories (last 36 hours) Mostly covers: Politics (67%), World (8%), U.S. (7%), Opinion (6%) ## Latest headlines - Nov 11, 2026, 9:08 AM: [Pro-Palestinian protesters hurl objects at Biden during Ireland visit]() · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/1051082.md) 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 - Nov 11, 2026, 9:00 AM: [Ending discrimination against Israel at the UN is an American interest]() · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/1037854.md) 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 - Nov 11, 2026, 9:00 AM: [Veterans kept their promise. Our votes make sure America keeps its own]() · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/1037855.md) 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 - Nov 11, 2026, 8:57 AM: [WATCH LIVE: Trump delivers Veterans Day remarks at Arlington National Cemetery]() · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/1034769.md) 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 - Nov 11, 2026, 8:48 AM: [Progressive Caucus announces opposition to permitting bill over environmental law reforms]() · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/1027036.md) 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 - Nov 11, 2026, 8:45 AM: [White House warns House Democrats not to harass staff with oversight investigations]() · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/1027037.md) 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 - Nov 11, 2026, 8:14 AM: [Trumpworld eager to ‘take on radical left’ with Republican minority leaders]() · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/1001083.md) 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 - Nov 11, 2026, 8:09 AM: [Russia and Ukraine settle on large prisoner swap after no major developments from talks]() · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/998749.md) 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 - Nov 11, 2026, 8:00 AM: [December Supplemental Security direct payment up to $994 goes out in 20 days]() · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/990990.md) 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 - Nov 11, 2026, 8:00 AM: [History repeats itself. Will Washington learn?]() · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/988493.md) 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 - Nov 11, 2026, 7:16 AM: [Bessent moves to military base due to Iranian assassination threat]() · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/953827.md) 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 - Nov 11, 2026, 7:08 AM: [Americans across the political spectrum view MAGA as a ‘loser’: Poll]() · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/948655.md) 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 - Nov 11, 2026, 7:00 AM: [Our military has a gambling problem]() · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/941587.md) 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 - Nov 11, 2026, 7:00 AM: [The West stopped finding bombs. That’s when the conquest began]() · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/941589.md) 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 - Nov 11, 2026, 7:00 AM: [Iran’s Guiana backdoor: Contested barrels, ghost flags, and the prison pipeline]() · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/941588.md) 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 - Nov 11, 2026, 6:47 AM: [Vietnam veterans on what they want the younger generation to remember on Veterans Day]() · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/931588.md) 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 - Nov 11, 2026, 6:00 AM: [Iran’s potential defectors are watching Washington]() · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/893938.md) 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 - Nov 11, 2026, 6:00 AM: [Trump’s new immigration proposal could go further than 2018 DACA deal]() · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/893937.md) 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 - Nov 11, 2026, 6:00 AM: [Why Stephen Miller can salvage Trump’s legislative future]() · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/893936.md) 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 - Nov 11, 2026, 5:00 AM: [Did the blue wave leave Gavin Newsom behind?]() · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/847052.md) 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 - Nov 11, 2026, 5:00 AM: [Why the CoreWeave and Nebius reports are so important to the AI build-out]() · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/847056.md) 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 - Nov 11, 2026, 5:00 AM: [Second round of November Social Security payments goes out in 7 days]() · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/847047.md) 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 - Nov 11, 2026, 5:00 AM: [The Epstein files obsession also enabled the midterm election debacle]() · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/847049.md) 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 - Nov 11, 2026, 5:00 AM: [Democrats could actually kill the Electoral College]() · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/847054.md) 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, - Nov 11, 2026, 5:00 AM: [South Yemeni leaders to US: Cut your losses in Yemen and support an independent south]() · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/847058.md) 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 - Nov 11, 2026, 4:00 AM: [Democrats want to compete in the South in 2028. They see black voters as the key]() · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/801180.md) 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 - Nov 11, 2026, 4:00 AM: [UN denies working with Hamas-loving Gaza ‘aid’ group funded by American Marxist]() · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/801178.md) 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 - Nov 11, 2026, 4:00 AM: [Inside Scoop: Blue wave crashes, Democrats lawyer up, AI and your guns]() · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/801181.md) 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: - Nov 11, 2026, 4:00 AM: [Don’t blame Israel for Republican midterm losses]() · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/801179.md) 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 - Nov 10, 2026, 10:07 PM: [ICE issues detainer for Honduran who allegedly tried to storm cockpit midflight]() · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/531505.md) 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 - Nov 10, 2026, 9:30 PM: [Three dead after car strikes pedestrians in North Hollywood]() · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/502743.md) 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 - Nov 10, 2026, 9:19 PM: [Pelosi one of 11 Democrats who failed to vote in Hegseth impeachment bid]() · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/493161.md) 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 - Nov 10, 2026, 8:21 PM: [Republicans recoil over Nvidia CEO spy allegations as feds investigate: ‘I lost my breath’]() · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/450303.md) 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 - Nov 10, 2026, 7:23 PM: [Judge denies BBC bid to dismiss Trump defamation lawsuit]() · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/406941.md) 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 - Nov 10, 2026, 7:17 PM: [Jim Jordan’s ascent to minority leader represents new chapter for Republicans]() · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/402351.md) 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 - Nov 10, 2026, 6:55 PM: [Kennedys sue to block Trump arch, saying it will overshadow JFK and RFK graves]() · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/385088.md) 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 - Nov 10, 2026, 6:33 PM: [Ted Budd to run for second Senate term in swing state North Carolina]() · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/368368.md) 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 - Nov 10, 2026, 6:26 PM: [Homan at the top of Democrats’ oversight target list, top House Democrat says]() · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/363172.md) 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 - Nov 10, 2026, 5:58 PM: [Trump drops appeals court nominee opposed by Arkansas senators]() · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/341406.md) 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 - Nov 10, 2026, 5:46 PM: [Nvidia taps former acting US attorney to investigate CEO Jensen Huang]() · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/331530.md) 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.