Author: Washington Examiner Staff

The Department of Agriculture has closed the livestock trade at the country’s southern ports due to concerns over a parasitic fly.  A case of New World screwworm was identified in Mexico, threatening “American livestock and our nation’s food supply.” As a result, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced the closure of the ports in a post…

Gas prices continued to decrease this week, even after the July Fourth holiday. On Tuesday, the national average cost for regular gas dropped to $3.149 per gallon, according to AAA. Tuesday’s fuel costs were slightly less expensive than a week ago, when the average price for regular gas was $3.171 per gallon. Prices are also…

Trash is piling up throughout Philadelphia. Workers from the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees District Council 33 in Philadelphia went on strike on July 1 at 12:01 a.m. after not reaching an agreement with the city. The union includes over 9,000 city workers, including Philadelphia’s sanitation workers, responsible for weekly residential trash…

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is visiting Malaysia to attend several diplomatic meetings with senior Malaysian government officials. It is his first diplomatic visit to Asia as a member of the Trump administration. Rubio’s visit to the country comes a day after President Donald Trump announced imports from Malaysia would face a 25% tariff.  Rubio…

An illegal immigrant from Venezuela who was suspected of murder while living in his home country was arrested in Michigan.  Franh Enrique Yonkaiker Machado-Rivas was apprehended by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents from the Gibraltar Border Patrol Station in Gibraltar, Michigan. He was stopped by local police officers during a traffic stop last Wednesday…

The national average price for regular gas decreased on Monday to $3.185 per gallon, according to AAA, the least expensive average cost for regular gas in the month of June in the last four years. The latest drop in gas prices comes after several consecutive days of gradual decreases in fuel costs. Monday’s national average…

New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani doesn’t believe that society should have billionaires.  The New York assemblyman said this when answering a question from Kristen Welker on Sunday during an interview on NBC News’s Meet the Press.  “You are a self-described democratic socialist,” Welker said. “Do you think that billionaires have a right…

A man and a woman were shot in New York City shortly after 10 p.m. on Sunday in Greenwich Village after the annual Pride Month parade. The shooting occurred near the Stonewall Inn, a bar made famous by the 1969 Stonewall riots. A woman was shot in the leg, and a man was shot in…

The national average price for a gallon of regular gas decreased on Friday, providing relief for the nation’s drivers at the pumps. Fuel costs dipped to $3.207 per gallon on Friday to end the work week, according to AAA. The latest gas prices represent a decrease from Thursday, when the national average price for gas…

The Department of Homeland Security eliminated a program that used taxpayer dollars to fund an organization promoting left-wing political principles, such as diversity, equity, inclusion, and LGBT ideologies in public schools. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced in a press release on Thursday that she was terminating the ideologically driven “Invent2Prevent.” According to DHS, the…