Author: Ryan King, Washington Examiner

State Department spokesman Ned Price will exit from his role later this month, marking the latest shuffle in the communications team for the Biden administration. Price has served as the spokesman from the department since the dawn of the Biden administration and will transition to a policy-oriented position, working closely with Secretary of State Antony…

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) appealed to President Joe Biden to grant Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic an exemption on the COVID-19 mandate so he can play in the Miami Open. “The only thing keeping Mr. Djokovic from participating in this tournament is your administration’s continued enforcement of a misguided, unscientific, and out-of-date COVID-19 vaccination requirement…

Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley fired back at fellow Trump administration alum Mike Pompeo over conjecture that she was jockeying for the vice presidency. The former secretary of state questioned Haley’s commitment to the Trump administration in his recent book and relayed a story implying that she was seeking to cozy up to former President…

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) revealed that he is planning to introduce legislation that would pave the way for deploying military force against Mexican drug cartels “if necessary.” Decrying the Biden administration for doing “nothing about” the recent kidnapping of four Americans near the city of Matamoros, Mexico, or the influx of drugs across the border,…

After losing the Pennsylvania governor’s contest by double digits, Republican Doug Mastriano is mulling a run for the Keystone State’s Senate seat held by Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA). Despite his 2022 drubbing, Mastriano said he feels he has cultivated a robust base of support and strong name recognition. The dilemma before him is how best…

Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley blasted both political parties for routinely running up debt and vowed to deploy veto power as president to bring the country’s fiscal house back in order. Casting herself as a champion of fiscal responsibility, Haley lamented that no recent president has been able to stand up to the “big spenders…

Chinese leader Xi Jinping issued a rare public rebuke of the United States for embarking on a crusade to thwart China’s rise. Although he has taken veiled digs at the U.S. in the past, Xi has generally refrained from calling out the U.S. by name, but as tensions with Washington, D.C., escalate, he opted to…

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre downplayed criticisms from Washington’s Mayor Muriel Bowser over federal involvement in the district’s crime bill. Bowser, who, like Biden, opposed the crime bill, cautioned that federal interference was a “slippery slope” that trampled upon Washington’s home rule. Jean-Pierre was coy about whether the Biden administration informed Bowser in advance…

Fresh off his huddling with donors last week, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is teeing up a jammed-pack week as he seemingly lays down the groundwork for a 2024 bid. DeSantis will deliver his hotly anticipated State of the State address to the Florida legislature, which is set to convene Tuesday, and start his mad dash…

An anti-corruption lawyer warned Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) staff against accepting an invite from Vogue to attend the Met Gala, emails show. The lawyer warned that Vogue’s parent company, Advance Media Publications, was a registered lobbyist and appeared to suggest that she could attend the gala if she had an invite from event organizers. Ocasio-Cortez…