Author: Christian Datoc

Private tensions between the world’s most powerful man and the world’s richest spilled out into a public war on Thursday, ending the alliance between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk in the most dramatic way possible. Since Musk, the billionaire tech entrepreneur and former leader of Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, started cozying up to…

President Donald Trump caught allies by surprise when he announced his decision over the weekend to withdraw billionaire commercial astronaut Jared Isaacman as his nominee for the next NASA administrator. The Senate had been scheduled to vote on Isaacman’s confirmation this week, following a confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation…

Former President Joe Biden‘s last physical in 2024 showed that there were “no new concerns,” but his recent “aggressive” prostate cancer diagnosis has raised questions about whether White House doctors may have missed a key test. The physical from last year, conducted by former White House physician Kevin O’Connor, makes no mention of whether or not Biden…

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard removed two top intelligence officials from their posts on Tuesday for allegedly politicizing intelligence. Officials with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence confirmed to the Washington Examiner that both acting NIC Chairman Mike Collins and his deputy, Maria Langan-Riekhof, were removed from their posts late Tuesday night.…

The first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term have been a whirlwind of activity, punctuated by action at the border, tariffs, turbulent markets, DOGE, multiple lawsuits, and constant headlines. This Washington Examiner series, “100 Day Report Card,” will look at six key issues and how they have come to define the early days of this administration. Part 3 is on the…

President Donald Trump declined to offer details about a trade-focused phone call he apparently had with Chinese President Xi Jinping. In an interview published Friday, Trump told Time that Xi broadly discussed what a trade compromise might look like. Trump declined to say when the call occurred, only that they had spoken many times. “He’s…

President Donald Trump said he’ll announce new tariff rates for U.S. trading partners over the next two to three weeks. The president announced reciprocal tariff rates specific to individual countries, plus a flat, 10% tariff rate for all trading partners, in early April. He would go on to announce a 90-day pause on the higher…

President Donald Trump eclipsed 90 days back in the White House on Monday and, in doing so, ran up against deadlines pertaining to eight executive orders he issued on Jan. 20. The president took dozens of executive actions on his first day back in the White House, but eight of those set 90-day deadlines for…

Project 2025 was frequently pointed to by Democrats last year as a Day One playbook for how a second Trump administration would upend the federal government. Former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris repeatedly levied attacks linking President Donald Trump to policies outlined in the 900-page blueprint published by the Heritage Foundation.…

Vice President JD Vance is departing for a weeklong trip across Italy and India on Friday, just the latest in a string of diplomatic deployments President Donald Trump has assigned to his second in command. According to the White House, the vice president and second lady Usha Vance will meet with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia…