Author: Emily Hallas, Washington Examiner

Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) on Tuesday called on Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) to take up redistricting in Georgia.  Kemp has said he supports redrawing the state’s political boundaries before the 2028 elections, but he recently ruled out taking up redistricting in Georgia before the midterm elections because voting in the state’s 2026 races is already…

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) on Sunday heralded her plan to target fraud in Minnesota if her campaign to become the state’s next governor is successful. Klobuchar sought to distance herself from Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), who dropped his reelection bid amid accusations he largely turned a blind eye to rampant fraud in taxpayer-funded social services…

Authorities on Tuesday raided nearly two dozen facilities in Minnesota, as federal officials continue to probe allegations that the state was defrauded of billions in taxpayer dollars.  Twenty-two federal search warrants were executed by the FBI and other agencies on Tuesday morning, according to the Justice Department. The locations in Minneapolis were largely Somali-linked businesses,…

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Wednesday suggested South Carolina should conduct redistricting efforts boosting Republicans, arguing the state must “fight fire with fire” in response to Virginia Democrats conducting such efforts in the commonwealth.  Graham’s call to action comes after Virginia voters on Tuesday approved a constitutional amendment that would allow the state to redraw…

Four former presidents expressed confidence that the United States’s best days are ahead, because of democracy’s “self-correcting” power.  In an NBC News interview that aired on Tuesday, former presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden shared a message to the country in light of the nation’s semiquincentennial. They sat down for…

Ukraine used an all-robot force to capture a Russian enemy position, marking the first time in the war such an operation has been successfully executed, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Monday.  Russian troops surrendered their position after Ukraine used only aerial drones and ground robots, Zelensky said during a speech to weapons manufacturers on…

President Donald Trump had his McDonald‘s lunch delivered to the Oval Office by “DoorDash grandma” on Monday. The president grinned as he accepted two large bags of McDonald’s from Sharon Simmons, whom he met with as part of an initiative to promote his “No Tax on Tips” policy, which was signed into law as part…

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Monday pushed China to embrace a larger role on the world stage as Europe increasingly turns to Beijing amid growing tensions with the United States.  Sanchez’s speech at Beijing’s Tsinghua University follows recent moves from the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and others to tighten ties with China after the…

Israel revealed on Tuesday morning that it blasted multiple Iranian bridges, hours ahead of a deadline President Donald Trump gave to Iran aimed at averting such damage.  “STRUCK: 8 bridge segments utilized by the Iranian terror regime for transporting weapons & military equipment,” Israel’s military wrote in a post to X. “The IDF struck 8…