Category: Economy

Hol­ly­wood stars and for­mer Pres­i­dent Barack Oba­ma are expect­ed to help enrich Pres­i­dent Joe Biden’s cam­paign cof­fers at a Los Ange­les fundrais­er in June. The event looks to extend Biden’s fundrais­ing advan­tage over for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump, and mir­rors a recent New York City event that saw Oba­ma and for­mer Pres­i­dent Bill Clin­ton show up. […]

Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris is look­ing to punc­ture neg­a­tive per­cep­tions about Pres­i­dent Joe Biden‘s han­dling of the econ­o­my with an “eco­nom­ic oppor­tu­ni­ty” tour. Har­ris, who is on a tour across the coun­try high­light­ing abor­tion access fol­low­ing vis­its to col­lege cam­pus­es last year, will launch this series of trips next Mon­day with a mod­er­at­ed con­ver­sa­tion in […]

The Biden gaffes keep com­ing and the Big Three net­works (ABC, CBS, NBC) keep ignor­ing them.  If Don­ald Trump or any Repub­li­can pres­i­dent was com­mit­ting mis­takes at the rate Biden is, you can bet net­work reporters and anchors would jam their broad­casts with their bloop­ers, but it’s not so for Pres­i­dent Joe Biden.  In just […]

The econ­o­my expand­ed at a 1.6% sea­son­al­ly adjust­ed annu­al rate in the first quar­ter of this year, show­ing some under­ly­ing momen­tum despite high inter­est rates from the Fed­er­al Reserve. The new fig­ures, which are adjust­ed for infla­tion, were pub­lished Thurs­day by the Bureau of Eco­nom­ic Analy­sis in its report for gross domes­tic prod­uct. Econ­o­mists had expect­ed GDP growth to increase by […]

(The Cen­ter Square) – North Car­oli­na Gov. Roy Coop­er on Wednes­day called for the state leg­is­la­ture to give teach­ers 8.5% pay rais­es and a $1,500 reten­tion bonus. Coop­er also calls for a mora­to­ri­um on using pub­lic mon­ey for pri­vate school vouch­ers and for redi­rect­ing those funds to pub­lic schools. He called his bud­get pro­pos­al “Secur­ing […]

The lev­el of sup­port for for­mer U.N. Ambas­sador Nik­ki Haley in Pennsylvania‘s pres­i­den­tial pri­ma­ry rais­es ques­tions about Repub­li­can nom­i­nee Don­ald Trump‘s stand­ing with­in his own par­ty. She dropped out of the race more than a month ago, yet more than 155,000 Penn­syl­va­nia Repub­li­cans vot­ed for her over the for­mer pres­i­dent. Yet it also presents an […]

Penn­syl­va­nia is the ulti­mate bat­tle­ground for 2024, with the White House, Sen­ate, and House all poised to flip based on how vot­ers here cast their bal­lots. In this series, Pin­ing for Penn­syl­va­nia: Unlock­ing the cru­cial Key­stone State, the Wash­ing­ton Exam­in­er will look at the demo­graph­ics, pol­i­tics, and key areas that have made Penn­syl­va­nia the must-watch state of the […]

Rap­per For­gia­to Blow post­ed a new rap song, “Black MAGA,” on his YouTube chan­nel, “May­or of Magville,” this week. The song is per­formed by the artist Black Don­ald Trump. The music video fea­tures var­i­ous “Blacks for Trump” signs on vehi­cles and T‑shirts. [embed­ded con­tent] “Don­ald Trump. Yeah, that’s my pres­i­dent,” the rap­per sings in the […]

As anti-Israel protests heat up across Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty and oth­er elite col­lege cam­pus­es, a new Har­vard poll reveals only 2% of peo­ple ages 18–29 con­sid­er the Israel-Hamas con­flict as the most con­cern­ing issue. When com­par­ing the Israel-Hamas con­flict to oth­er issues, 61% of the time respon­dents said it was a less impor­tant issue.  The most […]