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Miranda Devine: The left is pushing another desperate anti-Trump hoax – a false Epstein smear campaign

Democrats are back in Congress after their shutdown to launch another anti-Trump hoax.

It’s over: House ends longest-ever government shutdown with near party-line vote

The House passed a spending package Wednesday that will reopen the government after a 43-day shutdown, the longest in U.S. history, caused by Democrats' demand to spend more on Obamacare subsidies.

U.S. bishops officially ban gender-affirming care at Catholic hospitals

U.S. Catholic bishops voted Wednesday to make official a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender patients at Catholic hospitals. The step formalizes a yearslong process for the U.S. church to address transgender health care.

Michelle Obama: Presidents should set ‘standard’ on gifts, not give ‘wealthy people’ more access

Michelle Obama is seemingly sounding off on President Trump without naming him, saying that commanders in chief have to set "a standard" in the White House around accepting gifts. "When you are the commander in chief, there's a standard at which you have to set for the American people. And some of these things aren't...

Fetterman in memoir: Relationship with Shapiro devolved into ‘ugliness’

Sen. John Fetterman's (D-Pa.) new memoir details a souring relationship between him and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D), particularly over the governor's approach to criminal justice. In "Unfettered," Fetterman described an "ugliness between us — from which we have never recovered," Axios reported. He said he saw Shapiro as someone with "political ambition" who sought...

Our society can succeed only by contending with human nature — not simply fighting it

“What are you being so mean for, miss?” asks Humphrey Bogart’s character in “The African Queen.” “A man takes a drop too much once...

Europe is gaining newcomers — but risks losing its character

On many Americans’ bucket lists is a European vacation to see the continent’s almost frozen-in-time architecture, with buildings and cathedrals older than the United...

Colleges teach words are violence — creating more of the real thing

We’ve been told for years that offensive words are a form of “violence.” College campuses, once dedicated to the free exchange of ideas, have...

Fix the CIA by getting rid of the Directorate of Analysis

Throughout this week, the Washington Examiner’s Restoring America project will feature its latest series titled “Reforming the Deep State: Reining in the Federal Bureaucracy.” We invited some of the best policy minds in the conservative movement to speak to the issues of what waste, fraud, abuse, and unaccountability exist throughout the federal government and what […]

France’s budget woes will require European Central Bank intervention

Trade unions in France perceive themselves as the voice of the workers against the political elites and the wealthy. Last week, the unions and their supporters took to the streets to inject themselves directly into the political fight over a 2026 budget. Perhaps 800,000 people participated in anti-austerity demonstrations with the purpose of persuading President Emmanuel Macron and his new Prime Minister […]

Hospitals worry their drug scam may be exposed

Americans assume hospitals are in the business of keeping us healthy, not of buying drugs inexpensively and then reselling them with a huge markup. We like to — alas, naively — assume that the Hippocratic oath applies to the whole medical community.  Unfortunately, an ongoing federal program seems to have pushed many hospitals away from […]

Rooting out the deep state in American agriculture

Throughout this week, the Washington Examiner’s Restoring America project will feature its latest series titled “Reforming the Deep State: Reining in the Federal Bureaucracy.” We invited some of the best policy minds in the conservative movement to speak to the issues of what waste, fraud, abuse, and unaccountability exist throughout the federal government and what still needs […]

Making America’s diplomats work better

Throughout this week, the Washington Examiner’s Restoring America project will feature its latest series titled “Reforming the Deep State: Reining in the Federal Bureaucracy.” We invited some of the best policy minds in the conservative movement to speak to the issues of what waste, fraud, abuse, and unaccountability exist throughout the federal government and what […]

War Department budget is still not transparent

Amid the War Department leadership’s emphasis on speed, efficiency, and the warrior ethos and White House Office of Management and Budget‘s creative financing to claim a $1 trillion defense budget in 2026, the true cost of our security remains unclear. If the defense budget was actually $1 trillion as touted, and if all those resources […]

Afghan women fight Taliban’s wide-reaching Wi-Fi ban

This week, the Taliban began cutting Wi-Fi access to provinces across Afghanistan. The New York Times cited two Taliban officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, who confirmed that orders for the Wi-Fi ban came from Sheikh Haibatullah Akhundzada. Multiple Taliban officials have said Haibatullah believes that the internet is being misused and promotes immorality. WHAT’S HAPPENING WITH US-TALIBAN […]

Moldova’s election test against Russia

On September 28, Moldova, a country of about 2.6 million people tucked between Ukraine and Romania, will hold parliamentary elections. For most Americans, Moldova is a little-known place. But the outcome of these elections matters: the vote will test whether Russia can continue to shape politics in Europe through subversion, money, and cyber operations, and whether Europe […]

A new day for TV: Jimmy Kimmel faces the music

There is a reason the Boston Tea Party resonates 250 years after that fateful night in 1773. An evening where a group of bold patriots stood up in defiance against institutional tyranny. In protest of the Tea Act, they raided the British East India Company ships, throwing overboard pounds of tea, sparking excitement for revolution […]

Linda McMahon shows how to take on the deep state

Throughout this week, the Washington Examiner’s Restoring America project will feature its latest series titled “Reforming the Deep State: Reining in the Federal Bureaucracy.” We invited some of the best policy minds in the conservative movement to speak to the issues of what waste, fraud, abuse, and unaccountability exist throughout the federal government and what still needs […]

Charlie Kirk’s legacy of grace triumphs over hate — His bravery is what America needs most

Beautiful, gracious, courageous, and good Erika Kirk gave the most powerful, bravest speech we will ever witness at the memorial service to her husband...

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