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Power transmission towers line a street in Redondo Beach, California.

Utility companies want to shift risks on struggling families

Todd Snitchler · July 22, 2026 9:00 am

Reenactors at Mount Vernon in 2019. (Photo courtesy of Mount Vernon.)

On This Day: Washington fears a ‘great deficiency’ in weapons

Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA).

Steelers, civic leaders, and Gov. Josh Shapiro break records and pull off flawless Day 1 of NFL Draft

"The embroidered Queenaas Crown badge and the Union Jack flag, the flag of the United Kingdom whom Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will have reigned over, along with the British Commonwealth, for 60 years from February 6th 1952 to February 2012."

When Charles III meets King Donald

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump kisses a "Women for Trump" placard during a rally at the Lakeland Linder Regional Airport in Lakeland, Florida on October 12, 2016. / AFP / Mandel NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump to corporate America: Kiss my a**, please

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg speaks to the media after a jury found President Donald Trump guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, May 30, 2024, in New York.

Alvin Bragg and the Trump trial that never happened

Byron York October 30, 2025 5:01 pm

A vehicle drives along the U.S. side of the U.S.-Mexico border wall.

Democrats want open borders, most Americans don’t

Michael Barone October 29, 2025 3:58 pm

President Donald Trump dances.

Trump’s triumph in Japan began at a steel mill in Pennsylvania

Salena Zito October 29, 2025 3:55 pm

Mike Donilon, aide to former President Joe Biden, apperars on Capitol Hill on July 31, 2025 for the Biden autopen investigation. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

The man who stood to make millions if Biden won in 2024

Byron York October 29, 2025 2:41 pm

NFL Columbus Day

Why has the NFL ignored Italian American Heritage Month?

Christopher Tremoglie October 29, 2025 12:26 pm

FBI director Kash Patel speaks at a press conference announcing the arrests of Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier in connection with a federal investigation into sports betting and illegal gambling, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025, in New York.

Stop giving credibility to these gambling apps

Timothy P. Carney October 28, 2025 11:48 am

Social Security Administration Commissioner Frank Bisignano, who was named to the newly created position of CEO of the IRS on Oct. 6, honoring some of the longest-tenured employees who have been with the Social Security Administration for over 50 years.

Bisignano meeting the urgency of now in running the Social Security Administration

Salena Zito October 28, 2025 11:10 am

New York State Assemblymember and Democratic New York City Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.

Be careful what you wish for in the New York City mayor’s race

Hugo Gurdon October 28, 2025 6:00 am

John Brennan is pictured.

How John Brennan lied to Congress

Byron York October 26, 2025 9:44 pm

mehdi hasan

No, Mehdi Hasan, slavery didn’t build America

David Harsanyi October 24, 2025 2:00 pm

Hundreds of people gather at Town Square in UC San Diego while Charlie Kirk sits in the middle of the plaza. Turning Point USA founder and American conservative political activist, Charlie Kirk sets up in UC San Diego's Town Square fielding rapid-fire questions from students and community members in a signature "change-my-mind"-style forum, while campus police and private security ring the perimeter to keep the busy plaza orderly. (Photo by Michael Ho Wai Lee/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Post-Kirk authoritarianism reaches England

Dan Hannan October 24, 2025 4:05 am

Bret Baier next to the cover of his book, "To Rescue the American Spirit: Teddy Roosevelt and the Birth of a Superpower."

Theodore Roosevelt jumps out of the pages in Bret Baier’s newest book

Salena Zito October 23, 2025 11:22 am