Christian Datoc

Christian Datoc is a White House reporter for the Washington Examiner. He previously covered the White House, Congress, and campaigns for the Daily Caller. Christian, who hails from Atlanta, Georgia, graduated from Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina, in 2013, where he majored in political science and played varsity baseball.

Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi

How countries are combating energy shortages: ‘An Asian crisis’

Emily Hallas · March 30, 2026 7:00 am

The Artemis II Space Launch System rocket with the Orion spacecraft atop a mobile launcher at Launch Complex 39B.

What is the NASA Artemis program?

Claire Carter · March 30, 2026 6:26 am

President Donald Trump, right, speaks with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte during a group photo of North Atlantic Treaty Organization heads of state and government at the NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, June 25, 2025.

Trump went to war with Iran alone — now he wants company

Jay Caruso · March 30, 2026 6:00 am

A truck carries the coffins of Ali Larijani, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, and Gholamreza Soleimani, commander of the Paramilitary Basij Forces, during a funeral for Larijani, Soleimani, and the crew of the sunken IRIS Dena warship in Tehran, Iran, on March 18, 2026. The Iranian Navy frigate IRIS Dena was torpedoed and sunk by the United States Navy's Los Angeles-class submarine USS Charlotte in the Indian Ocean during the 2026 Iran conflict. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

What have US-Israeli forces claimed to have destroyed in Iran since start of war?

Claire Carter · March 30, 2026 6:00 am

Nine Mile Point Clean Energy Center nuclear power plant is in Scriba, N.Y.

Energy affordability demands an ‘all of the above’ strategy

Heather Reams and Rep. Mike Lawler · March 30, 2026 6:00 am

Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, speaks during an anti-abortion rally on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Anti-abortion group pushes Attorney General Pam Bondi to enforce Comstock Act

Mabinty Quarshie · March 30, 2026 6:00 am

Detainees talk on telephones at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in Adelanto, Calif., Aug. 28, 2019. A federal appeals court on Tuesday, April 26, 2022, agreed to reconsider a ruling that rejected the state’s first-in-the-nation ban on for-profit private prisons and immigration detention facilities. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File)

DOJ investigates California policy of placing biological men in women’s prisons

Mia Cathell · March 30, 2026 6:00 am

People wait in a TSA line at the John F. Kennedy International Airport, March 22, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

Patriotism and Unity

Another shutdown, another clown show in Congress

Ian Haworth · March 30, 2026 6:00 am

Aircraft on the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln.

Courage, Strength, and Optimism

Stop pretending the Iran war wasn’t necessary

Elizabeth Stauffer · March 30, 2026 6:00 am

Border Czar Tom Homan speaks during a Mexican Border Defense Medal presentation in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Tom Homan defends ICE wearing masks: ‘Stop calling ICE Nazis and racists’

Washington Examiner Staff · March 30, 2026 5:43 am

AYERS

Democratic lawmakers took cash from infamous ‘domestic terrorist’ Bill Ayers

Robert Schmad · March 30, 2026 5:00 am

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill holds up a just signed executive order during her inauguration ceremony in Newark, N.J., Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026.

Democrats keep choosing illegal immigrants over Americans

Washington Examiner · March 30, 2026 5:00 am