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1 day ago | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Emily Hallas
National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya promised that answers and solutions regarding the United States’s surge of autism will come “within the next year,” marking a later date than the September deadline Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. previously announced.
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1 day ago | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Emily Hallas
Research from the Urban Institute on Ohio’s school choice program indicated that giving children the option to attend private schools through vouchers significantly improves academic outcomes, including college enrollment and graduation. On Tuesday, the Washington, D.C.-based think tank released a study on Ohio’s Educational Choice Scholarship Program.
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1 day ago | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Emily Hallas
The European Union Commission fined Apple and Meta hundreds of millions of dollars for allegedly violating broad EU regulations over Big Tech. In 2022, the world’s most sweeping tech regulation became law with the passage of the European Commission’s Digital Market Act.
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1 day ago | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Emily Hallas
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a lawsuit accusing Snapchat’s operator of illegally marketing addictive design features to minors. Under a 2024 Florida law, HB 3, social media platforms that use “addictive features” are prohibited from providing accounts to children 13 or younger and must restrict access to 14 and 15-year-olds.
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1 day ago | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Emily Hallas
The Trump administration is changing direction on the economy amid fears that escalating tensions over tariff policy could be unsustainable for the United States. At the start of the week, stocks slid and the dollar hit its lowest value against foreign currencies in years amid the growing fallout between President Donald Trump and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, one of the most influential economists in the country.
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1 day ago | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Emily Hallas
A federal judge ruled President Donald Trump must restore federal funding and employees to Voice of America and two of its sister outlets that the Trump administration has accused of spewing “radical propaganda.” Under U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth’s preliminary injunction issued Wednesday, the U.S. Agency for Global Media must rehire employees working at VOA, Radio Free Asia, and Middle East Broadcasting Network.
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1 day ago | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Emily Hallas
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) called on the Democratic Party to take inventory of the mistakes it made last year to avoid facing another devastating election cycle. A stream of dismal polls and internal power struggles has revealed that Democrats are still grappling with how to rebound from their losses during the 2024 elections. The governor reflected on the state of his party during an interview with the Hill on Monday. “I don’t know what the party is,” Newsom said.
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2 days ago | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Emily Hallas
Planned Parenthood plans to close two rural centers in Utah, a quarter of its locations in the state, after the Trump administration froze federal funds boosting the organization. The closures come after the Trump administration withheld millions in Title X funding from Planned Parenthood and other organizations on March 31.
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2 days ago | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Emily Hallas
Washington, D.C., is one of many areas across the country preparing for major energy bill increases this summer. Washington Gas, which serves more than a million residents in the D.C.-Maryland-Virginia area, is proposing a 12% rate increase for customers, or almost $200 more a year on gas bills for the average customer, starting in August. Pepco, which is part of PJM Interconnection, raised electricity rates for more than a million customers in Washington and Maryland in January.
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2 days ago | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Emily Hallas
The Trump administration reinstated federal funding for four National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration regional climate centers after allowing their government contracts to expire.
