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washingtonexaminer.com | Christian Datoc
EXCLUSIVE — Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal was at the White House Wednesday ahead of the imminent signing of a U.S.-Ukraine minerals deal and just an hour after President Donald Trump’s latest social media attack on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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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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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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washingtonexaminer.com | Christian Datoc
President Donald Trump is planning to install two 100-foot flag poles on the White House grounds. The president announced the plans for the flag poles, which he said he would pay for out of his own pocket, after he emerged from the White House residence just before 11 a.m. Wednesday with a coterie of aides and Secret Service agents.
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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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washingtonexaminer.com | Mike Brest
Pete Hegseth, whose tenure as secretary of defense has been mired in a series of events raising questions about his ability to lead the Department of Defense, defended his performance during an address to the U.S. Army War College on Wednesday. “From Day One and each 100 of those days, our overriding objectives have been clear: restoring the warrior ethos, rebuilding our military, and reestablishing deterrence,” he said.
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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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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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washingtonexaminer.com | Joe Concha
If this were a boxing match, the tale of the tape would read: In the red corner: James Carville, former senior adviser to President Bill Clinton, LSU grad, former Marine. Born: 1944Nickname: The Ragin’ Cajun In the white corner: David Hogg, current Democratic National Committee vice chairman, Harvard grad, social media.
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washingtonexaminer.com | Samantha-Jo Roth
Israel is poised to take center stage for Democrats once again in Michigan’s high-stakes Senate primary, reviving deep divisions within the party over U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Nowhere are the simmering tensions over the war in Gaza among Democrats more pronounced than in the Wolverine State, where a once-reliable coalition has splintered.