Tag: Washington D.C.

President Donald Trump talks with California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) after arriving on Air Force One at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, Friday, Jan. 24, 2025.

Trump rekindles blue-city feud with National Guard takeover of Washington

Mabinty Quarshie · August 22, 2025 7:00 am

Weaponizing the tax code against the Left's preferred middle institutions is a mistake. Their institutions have more money and can last longer than ours, and the Left will always be more ruthless in their use of big government. And to chip away at the middle institutions -- whether they be Harvard or Hillsdale, colleges or churches -- is the most unconservative thing one can do with government power. (AP Photos, Wikimedia Commons)

In historic shift, National Endowment for the Humanities funds academics with conservative ties

Robert Schmad · August 22, 2025 7:00 am

Members of the National Guard patrol the National Mall on Aug. 15. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

The carjacking heard round the world

Jeremy Lott · August 22, 2025 6:10 am

In a show of Republican unity, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., left, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., make statements to reporters ahead of vote in the House to pass a bill on President Donald Trump's top domestic priorities of spending reductions and tax breaks, at the Capitol in Washington,

Leading House conservatives tout earmarks despite small-government rhetoric

Zach Halaschak · August 22, 2025 6:07 am

How DC Democrats hollowed out the capital’s police force

Mia Cathell · August 22, 2025 6:00 am

GOP trades places with Democrats with uphill battle to message Trump’s big, beautiful bill

Naomi Lim · August 22, 2025 6:00 am

President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order with White House AI adviser David Sacks, right, at an AI summit.

Two cheers for Trump’s AI action plan

Michael M. Rosen · August 22, 2025 5:45 am

An Architect of the Capitol worker picks up trash on the House steps of the U.S. Capitol after the House passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on May 22. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP)

Senate appropriators reject House cuts to congressional funding for Capitol Hill operations

Kevin R. Kosar · August 22, 2025 5:27 am

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) leaves the Capitol Hill Club.

Property taxes are actually the least bad tax — except for one

Tiana Lowe Doescher · August 22, 2025 5:25 am

President Trump is betting on Ahmad al Sharaa to unify Syria and prove its mettle as a U.S. counterterrorism partner.

Trump’s Syria gamble

Daniel DePetris · August 22, 2025 5:10 am

President Donald Trump listens as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks during an event about investing in America in the Cross Hall of the White House, Wednesday, April 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump administration pay-to-play tactics on AI chip sales to China?

Jessica Melugin · August 22, 2025 5:07 am

Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump.

Ukraine peace deal on uncertain trajectory after Alaska summit

Jamie McIntyre · August 22, 2025 5:05 am