Author: Washington Examiner

President Donald Trump will host a “peace signing ceremony” between Azerbaijan and Armenia Friday at the White House. He’ll aim to end a war the two nations have participated in for decades. The conflict stems from territorial disagreements over Nagorno-Karabakh, a region currently held by Azerbaijan but which contains ethnic Armenians who support Armenia’s conflict.…

Since President Donald Trump began his march to the top of the Republican Party a decade ago, his backers have offered one simple reason for their support: because he fights. A hallmark of the New Right, the slice of the conservative movement most fervently in Trump’s corner, is the aggressive use of political power to…

Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) said he would draw a congressional map that is even more favorable to Republicans if Texas Democrats do not return soon. Abbott’s new map would boost Republicans to eight additional House seats, up from the five proposed initially, if the Democrats who left to deny the Texas legislature a quorum do…

President Donald Trump has called for a ‘new’ and ‘highly accurate’ census, but he will likely have to wait for a new nationwide survey to be lawfully conducted. The Census occurs every 10 years to reapportion congressional districts and count the U.S. population, with the most recent tally occurring in 2020. Trump posted on Truth Social Thursday that…

Socialist candidates are surging in a series of 2025 races as the fight for local office becomes a bellwether for the direction of the Democratic Party. Progressive Democrats have outperformed expectations in the early 2025 election cycle, leading or winning party support for mayoral and other city races. The contests, in Democratic strongholds from Minneapolis…

The national average price for regular gas slightly decreased on Friday to $3.156 per gallon.  This is a decrease from Thursday’s national average price of one cent per gallon, according to AAA. There has also been a drop in cost compared to gas prices earlier this week, when gas was $3.163 per gallon. For the…

The Trump administration’s efforts to convince illegal immigrants in the United States to voluntarily leave the country appear to be working, but a lack of information on the extent of the self-deportations from the government has made it difficult to know the extent of the operation. “Tens of thousands” of illegal immigrants residing in the…

EXCLUSIVE — Scott Kupor wants to streamline the workforce at his agency, but that doesn’t mean he’s handing out large numbers of pink slips. Kupor, who was sworn in as director of the Office of Personnel Management on July 14, aims to reduce his workforce from nearly 3,000 to 2,000, mostly through voluntary efforts. “We can’t…

A decade into the Trump era, Democrats are, to nearly everyone’s great amusement, still searching for their own version of the cultural icon-turned-two-term president. Well, not all Democrats. Some believe they have at long last found her. The Atlantic headlined its recent profile of Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) “A Democrat for the Trump Era.” It…

As the threat and reality of U.S.-imposed tariffs around the world continue, the increasingly influential group of countries known as the BRICS bloc is also flexing its muscle. What started as the emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa has now become an 11-nation trading and political bloc, with Indonesia becoming the…