Author: Elaine Mallon, Washington Examiner

The Georgia Supreme Court ruled that votes for third-party presidential candidates Cornel West and Claudia De la Cruz would not be counted. In a unanimous vote, the court determined that while West and De la Cruz met the minimum requirement of collecting 7,500 petition signatures to qualify for the ballot, neither submitted those signatures in…

A Maryland woman has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for her role in a white supremacist plot to collapse Baltimore’s electric grid. Sarah Beth Clendaniel began conspiring in December 2022 with Brandon Russell, founder of the neo-Nazi group AtomWaffen, to cause catastrophic damage to energy facilities in the Baltimore area, federal prosecutors said. Clendaniel…

Michael Cohen, former President Donald Trump’s ex-personal attorney, said he plans on fleeing the country if his former boss is elected in November. Once Trump’s fixer, Cohen became the star witness in New York’s hush money trial, in which Trump was accused of falsifying business records to pay off porn star Stormy Daniels. Cohen testified…

Seven high-ranking officials in New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s administration have resigned since he took office in 2022, with three in the past month. The latest resignations are simply par for the course, according to Adams, who is at the center of an FBI corruption investigation. “People come in and out of government,” Adams…

Vice President Kamala Harris is in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to discuss her economic policy, saying she will offer a proposal to secure manufacturing jobs in the United States. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER In rallies held in North Carolina and New Hampshire, Harris talked about offering a $6,000 child tax credit, $25,000…

Vice President Kamala Harris will be sitting down with MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle for her second solo interview since beginning her bid for the presidency on Thursday. This will be Harris’s first one-on-one interview with a legacy media outlet, as her only other one was with Oprah Winfrey last week for a “Unite for America”…

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody declined to represent a state prosecutor and county sheriff being sued by a gun rights group over the state’s ban on open-carrying firearms. Gun Owners of America and a Palm Beach County gun owner filed the federal lawsuit in August against St. Lucie County Sheriff Keith Pearson and State Attorney…

Former President Donald Trump is attending the “Protecting America Initiative” in Smithton, Pennsylvania. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER The discussion centers on ways to safeguard the United States against China, with topics including banning foreign purchases of farmland, protecting food security, and safeguarding American intellectual property.

The trust fund financing Social Security benefits for 51 million retired workers and 6 million survivor beneficiaries is projected by the Committee for Responsible Federal Budget to become insolvent by 2032 — potentially cutting benefits by up to 21%. With looming fear that Social Security beneficiaries may see smaller checks, Social Security has become the…

A Muslim Democratic mayor who runs a city just five miles outside of Detroit endorsed former President Donald Trump in the 2024 election. Mayor Amer Ghalib, who was born in Yemen, has been leading the city of around 27,000 residents since 2021. The city of Hamtramck, Michigan, which has a sizable immigrant population, became the…