Author: Andi Shae Napier Washington Examiner

Colt Gray, the 14-year-old charged in the deadly Apalachee High School shooting last month, pleaded not guilty and waived his right to an arraignment hearing. Gray was arrested and charged last month with four counts of felony murder for allegedly shooting and killing two students and two teachers on Sept. 4 in Winder, Georgia. Last…

Vice President Kamala Harris announced a last-minute change to her schedule Wednesday. She will deliver remarks from the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., before she heads to Philadelphia ahead of a CNN town hall in the evening. The remarks follow Harris’s sit-down interview with NBC’s Hallie Jackson on Tuesday when they discussed the upcoming election…

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is holding a press briefing Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. The conference takes place hours after Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke to the press from Tel Aviv, claiming he’s been urging Israel to accept a ceasefire deal, as well as making progress in ensuring humanitarian assistance gets into Gaza.

Ohio has flipped back and forth between parties every two elections since 1984. Following this pattern, the Buckeye state switched to blue in 2008 and 2012 but flipped red in 2016 and 2020, when former President Donald Trump took the state’s 18 electoral votes from President Joe Biden by 8 points. The state is in…

The recall from TreeHouse Foods of frozen waffle products sold in stores throughout the United States has broadened due to concerns over listeria contamination. The new recall includes all of the company’s griddle products, including pancakes and Belgian waffles. The updated recall includes all products from a factory in Ontario, Canada. The products have been…

Votes for a medical marijuana ballot measure in Arkansas won’t be counted after the state Supreme Court ruled Monday that the measure didn’t fully inform the voter what it would do. The decision comes just two weeks before Election Day. Early voting began Monday when the 4-3 ruling was placed, so it is too late…

Wisconsin was a relatively red state from the 1940s to 1984 but voted blue from 1988 to 2012, with extremely tight races occurring in 2000 and 2004. Then-candidate Donald Trump won the state by 0.7 points in 2016, taking the state’s 10 electoral votes. The Badger State turned blue again in 2020, when now-President Joe…

Pennsylvania is one of the three “blue wall states” and voted blue from 1992 to 2012. Former President Donald Trump took the state in 2016 by 0.7%, but President Joe Biden won the Keystone State’s 19 Electoral College votes by 1.2%. It is one of the most keenly contested battleground states. The Washington Examiner is…

Virginia was a reliably red state from 1952 to 2004, but population booms near Washington, D.C., gave the state a competitive edge through the 1990s before it eventually went blue in 2008. The Old Dominion State has voted blue since then, with President Joe Biden winning its 13 electoral votes by 10 points in 2020.…

North Carolina voted blue from 1876 to 1964 before flipping red from 1968 until 2008, when Barack Obama won the state. The state went red again, with Mitt Romney winning in 2012 by 2%, followed by Donald Trump taking the state’s 16 electoral votes in the last two elections by 3.9% and 1.3% in 2020.…