Claire Carter

Claire Carter is a breaking news reporter for the Washington Examiner. She previously reported for the Fayetteville Observer.

Futuristic AI brain chip hologram over city skyline at twilight.

DOJ charges two US citizens with conspiring to smuggle AI technology to China

Claire Carter · March 25, 2026 4:59 pm

Medicaid advocates push back against block grants and the per-capita approach, noting that 56 percent of all federal contributions to states, not just for healthcare, are for Medicaid programs.

Indiana bars autism therapy provider from billing state Medicaid program

Claire Carter · March 25, 2026 12:47 pm

Ranking member Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., questions Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the oversight of the Department of Homeland Security, Wednesday, March 4, 2026 in Washington.

Jamie Raskin alleges Trump took classified documents on private plane and showed them off

Claire Carter · March 25, 2026 11:11 am

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., center, joined from left by Rep. Jeff Hurd, R-Colo., Republican Conference Chair Lisa McClain, R-Mich., and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., during a news conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025.

WATCH LIVE: GOP holds press conference amid partial government shutdown

Claire Carter · March 25, 2026 9:44 am

Sen. Tim Kaine leaves after a closed door briefing on the Iran war

Senate Republicans defeat third Democratic attempt at Iran war powers resolution

Claire Carter · March 24, 2026 11:12 pm

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters at his Mar-a-Lago club

Trump’s Mar-a-Lago to be represented by Democrat after Florida special election upset

Claire Carter · March 24, 2026 8:52 pm

U.S. paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division from Fort Bragg in North Carolina, reach the ground after jumping from a US Air Force C-17 aircraft during a 'Saber Strike 2018' military exercises at the Gaiziunai Training Area, some 130 kms (80 miles) west of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania, Saturday, June 9, 2018. A major U.S.-led military exercise with 18,000 soldiers from 19 primarily NATO countries is taking place in the alliance's eastern flank involving Poland and the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.

Trump to deploy at least 1,000 airborne troops to Middle East amid Iran peace talks

Claire Carter · March 24, 2026 8:10 pm

Germany's President Frank-Walter Steinmeier speaks during joint news conference

German president says US justification for Iran war ‘does not hold water’

Claire Carter · March 24, 2026 7:04 pm

Uber backs two Democrats and one Republican for California governor

Claire Carter · March 24, 2026 5:45 pm

Combines harvest soybeans in a field.

USDA cuts $300 million DEI program for nonprofit groups and tribes: Report

Claire Carter · March 24, 2026 4:31 pm

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is seen during the Shield of the Americas Summit, Saturday, March 7, 2026, at Trump National Doral Miami in Doral, Fla. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Rubio to testify in trial of ex-roommate alleged to have been Maduro’s hired gun

Claire Carter · March 23, 2026 2:51 pm

Lights on a parked police vehicle flash at scene of a fatal shooting.

Suspect in Loyola student killing was in US illegally, DHS says

Claire Carter · March 23, 2026 12:23 pm