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Democrats’ hollowed-out center October 27, 2023 06:06 AM For the whole three-week duration of the speakerless House, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) sought to seduce his Republican colleagues with the siren song of bipartisanship. “This is about what is good for the American people, not as Democrats or Republicans but as Americans,” Jeffries told PBS

The day after Elon Musk closed his deal to buy Twitter, the company’s Seattle office held a Halloween party for employees and their children. Rebecca Scott Thein dressed in bright green to play an alien to her daughter’s Buzz Lightyear. Thein, whose job at Twitter (now X) was to help the platform plan for and

GOP presidential hopefuls call for mental hospitals following Maine shooting October 27, 2023 05:51 AM Mental health or guns? That issue has rushed to the fore yet again in the wake of a mass shooting, this time in Maine, where at least 18 people are dead from the gun of a suspect with a history

Michael Nigro/Sipa USA/Newscom Should we stay or should we go? This is the question on the lips of many parents of teenagers who are on the cusp of college. Should we stay in the broken institutions of elite higher education, paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for our children to be insulted, threatened, segregated, or

Christmas shopping is beginning ever earlier, even before Halloween. Here’s why October 27, 2023 05:10 AM Large retail stores across North America began holiday sales this year much earlier than in the past. Many consumers are noticing this trend. Those who spoke to the Washington Examiner about it had strong, mostly negative opinions of the

Far-left House Democrats chafe at Biden Israel support after Hamas terror attacks October 27, 2023 04:45 AM A long-simmering feud among Democrats about how deeply, if at all, to support Israel is widening into a wrenching rift amid the nation’s defensive war against Hamas terrorists in Gaza and foes elsewhere. Even before Hamas’s Oct. 7

Biden signals desire to work with new speaker while campaign undercuts him as ‘extreme’ October 27, 2023 04:41 AM President Joe Biden has a blank slate with new House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and is using it to make bipartisan overtures, while his aides portray him as extreme. The uneasy dynamic will be tested next

New House Speaker Mike Johnson has weeks to help prevent a government shutdown October 27, 2023 04:30 AM House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is getting a crash course in running the chamber, for a job that’s second in the line of presidential succession behind Vice President Kamala Harris. Johnson assumed the speakership on Oct. 25

Iowa opportunities abound for 2024 GOP hopefuls to meet key local players October 27, 2023 04:00 AM Former President Donald Trump doesn’t particularly need to schlep to local Republican gatherings as he pursues the 2024 GOP nomination. Trump’s primary rivals very much do, ahead of the Hawkeye State’s Jan. 15 caucuses, which begin the voting

Senate Republicans splinter over Biden’s request to link Israel and Ukraine funds October 27, 2023 01:06 AM Senate Republicans are divided on how to approach President Joe Biden’s $106 billion supplemental funding request, which pairs aid packages for Israel and Ukraine. Members ranging from defense hawks to populists have lambasted the approach of combining the