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FBI descends on Colorado Springs home as Cybertruck investigation continues
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FBI descends on Colorado Springs home as Cybertruck investigation continues

By The Gazette via The Washington Examiner Vehicles attached with the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrived at a townhouse complex in northeast Colorado Springs on Thursday morning as the investigation connected to an explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck outside President-elect Donald Trump‘s Las Vegas hotel continued. One person died and seven others were injured on Wednesday when a Tesla Cybertruck that carried fireworks and camp fuel canisters caught fire and exploded in front of the hotel. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police and Clark County Fire Department officials told a news conference that a person died inside the futuristic-looking pickup truck and they were working to get the body out. Seven people nearby had minor injuries and several were taken to a ho...
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Major changes coming to Social Security regardless of Trump’s presence
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Major changes coming to Social Security regardless of Trump’s presence

By Emily Hallas | Washington Examiner In the spirit of the season, the  Washington Examiner has identified 12 issues we believe will shape and influence 2025 and beyond. The incoming Trump administration has made the fight against illegal immigration and the use of tariffs its flagship policy items. The U.S. will also possibly undergo a health revolution, while very real questions need to be answered on everything from Social Security reform to the military to the changing landscape of the energy sector. Part 3 is on Social Security. Retirees make up a larger proportion of citizens than ever before after birth rates have sunk to historic lows over the past few years, hitting below the replacement rate that is needed to sustain the United States’s population.  Nearly 73 million peo...
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Marianne Williamson, 72, formerly a candidate for President, launches bid to become next DNC chair 
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Marianne Williamson, 72, formerly a candidate for President, launches bid to become next DNC chair 

By Samantha-Jo Roth | The Washington Examiner Former Democratic presidential candidate and author Marianne Williamson launched a bid to become chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee on Thursday, joining a crowded field of candidates attempting to “make things right” for the party after its election losses last month.  “MAGA is a distinctly 21st century political movement and it will not be defeated by a 20th century tool kit. Data analysis, fundraising, field organizing, and beefed-up technology — while all are important — will not be enough to prepare the way for Democratic victory in 2024 and beyond. That’s why I have decided to run for DNC Chair this year,” Williamson wrote in a post on her Substack on Thursday morning.  Wil...
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York: Another Biden parting outrage
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York: Another Biden parting outrage

By Byron York | Commentary, Washington Examiner On Monday morning, the White House announced that President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 prisoners, all murderers and some multiple murderers, on federal death row. (Yes, while most death penalty cases are handled by the states, the federal government has a death row for violators of federal crimes.) Biden commuted the federal prisoners’ sentences from death to life in prison without the possibility of parole. In a statement, Biden claimed to be acting out of principle and conscience. He plainly said he did not want the federal government to execute anyone, and he specifically did not want the next president of the United States to allow the federal government to execute anyone. He never ment...
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Senate Democrats use ethics investigation to target conservative Supreme Court justices
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Senate Democrats use ethics investigation to target conservative Supreme Court justices

By Gabrielle M. Etzel and Kaelan Deese | Washington Examiner Senate Democrats on Saturday morning concluded a nearly two-year-long investigation into the ethical practices of the Supreme Court, issuing a final report that focused on the court’s conservative members, accusing them of impropriety such as accepting lavish gifts and failing to recuse amidst conflicts of interests.  “Now more than ever before, as a result of information gathered by subpoenas, we know the extent to which the Supreme Court is mired in an ethical crisis of its own making,” Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Dick Durbin (D-IL) said in a statement Saturday morning.  The 97-page staff report accuses Justice Clarence Thomas, who joined the court in 1991, of receiving millions of dollars...
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This university wants to use AI to boost China’s military — OpenAI keeps hiring its graduates
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This university wants to use AI to boost China’s military — OpenAI keeps hiring its graduates

By Robert Schmad | Washington Examiner In 2018, a prestigious Chinese university announced to the world that it intended to harness the power of artificial intelligence to bolster China’s military. Since then, America’s top AI company has hired dozens of its graduates. Tsinghua University has gone all in on pursuing AI research and development for China’s People’s Liberation Army. You Zheng, one of the university’s vice presidents, went as far as to declare the institution’s enthusiastic involvement in the Chinese Communist Party’s “military-civil fusion” strategy.  “In accordance with the central government’s requirements, Tsinghua University has closely integrated the national strategy of military-civilian integration with the strategy of building a strong c...
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Proliferation of ‘legal and lawful’ drones just the ‘new normal,’ Biden Admin says
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Proliferation of ‘legal and lawful’ drones just the ‘new normal,’ Biden Admin says

By Jamie McIntyre | Washington Examiner ‘IT’S A BRAND-NEW ECOSYSTEM’: In a teleconference with reporters and an appearance on Fox News, John Kirby, White House national security communications adviser, is telling skeptical Americans — including lawmakers and even President-elect Donald Trump — that what they see in the sky is simply an anodyne sign of the times. “We’re in a new ecosystem regarding unmanned aircraft in this country. Again, all legal and lawful and doing the right thing for the public good, but it’s a brand-new ecosystem,” Kirby told a questioning Fox News anchor Bret Baier. “We’ve done the detection, then the analysis. We’ve corroborated the sightings. And in every case that we have examined to date, we have seen nothing, nothing that indicates a p...
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York: Now we know how many secret sources the FBI had on Jan. 6, but what did they do?
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York: Now we know how many secret sources the FBI had on Jan. 6, but what did they do?

By Byron York | Commentary, Washington Examiner It took years, but now we know the number of secret informants the FBI had in Washington during the Capitol riot of Jan. 6, 2021. What we don’t know is what they did. In a long-awaited report, Michael Horowitz, the inspector general of the Justice Department, revealed that 26 confidential human sources, or CHSs, “were in Washington, D.C., on January 6 in connection with the events of January 6.” Of that number, 17 went into the Capitol or into the restricted area around the Capitol. Of them, four went inside the Capitol, while 13 were on the restricted grounds. Beyond that number, there were nine CHSs who did not enter the Capitol or the restricted area. We don’t know where they were. READ THE FULL COMME...
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Inflation rose to 3% in November in producer price index, surprisingly hot
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Inflation rose to 3% in November in producer price index, surprisingly hot

By Zach Halaschak | Washington Examiner Inflation, as measured by the producer price index, rose four-tenths of a percentage point to 3% for the year ending in November, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Thursday. The hot inflation rate is more than economists had anticipated and adds to recent signs that price pressures have not yet abated as President-elect Trump prepares to take office. In fact, November marked the largest rise in PPI inflation since February 2023. On a month-to-month basis, the producer price index increased by 0.4%. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
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Washington Examiner: The Left’s troubling violent rhetoric
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Washington Examiner: The Left’s troubling violent rhetoric

By The Washington Examiner | Commentary President-elect Donald Trump’s commanding reelection victory understandably upset many on the Left who tried for nearly a decade to demonize his brand of populist politics as outside the boundaries of acceptable political discourse. But in the past week, two incidents in New York have triggered an outburst of violent rhetoric that condemns anti-Trumpian leftist rhetoric. After a Manhattan jury on Monday unanimously found Daniel Penny not guilty of criminally negligent homicide for the death of a mentally ill homeless man who was threatening subway riders, the leaders of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York called for violence. BLM of Greater New York co-founder Hawk Newsome shouted, “It’s a small world, buddy,” as ...
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