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Search Tuesday, January 28, 2020 Politics White House Congress Campaigns 2020 Election All Politics Policy Defense & National Security Energy Healthcare Finance & Economy Tech & Cyber Budgets & Spending Courts Foreign All Policy News Opinion Editorials Columnists Byron York Hugo Gurdon Salena Zito Michael Barone Paul Bedard Philip Klein Timothy P. Carney Dan Hannan Kristen Soltis Anderson David Freddoso Fred Barnes Contributors Op-Eds Letters to the Editor Editorial Cartoons All Opinion Business Magazine Latest Edition All Magazine Editions Digital Reader Member Login Member Access Multimedia Videos Podcasts Ahead of the Trend Barone’s Guide to Government Modern Conservatives Policy Bosses Sea Island Summit Beltway Confidential Washington Secrets Newsletters ’Iowa isn’t everything’: Biden supporters brace for loss in first 2020 state By Joseph Simonson Right Now Tuesday January 28, 2020 How the US should respond to Britain’s Huawei 5G decision Tuesday January 28, 2020 Top Saudi official says US acted in ’legitimate self-defense’ by killing Soleimani Tuesday January 28, 2020 WATCH LIVE: President Trump unveils Middle East peace plan alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Tuesday January 28, 2020 House Democrat opposed to impeachment faces well-funded GOP rival Tuesday January 28, 2020 ’Fake victimhood’: CNN panelists dismiss backlash over segment mocking Trump supporters Politics Energy official: IRS slow-walking carbon capture tax credits By Abby Smith Ivanka Trump rips CNN panel for mocking Trump supporters By Dominick Mastrangelo Examiner Magazine Digital Edition Subscribe Now to the Magazine Includes full access to Archives News Top Stories January 28, 2020 12:00 AM Former EPA officials say farmers won’t get the aid they’re claiming from Trump water rule rewrite January 28, 2020 07:59 AM CNN’s Don Lemon and guests mock Trump supporters as uneducated and illiterate January 28, 2020 07:46 AM Britain won’t ban Huawei equipment from 5G network in major setback for US January 28, 2020 12:00 AM House Democrats to vote to override state ’right-to-work’ laws, boosting labor movement January 28, 2020 09:47 AM CDC warns against travel to China because of coronavirus outbreak January 28, 2020 10:34 AM Kobe Bryant and wife made pact to ’never fly on a helicopter together’ before his death: Report January 28, 2020 10:49 AM ’We need her here’: AOC steals show stumping for Sanders in Iowa January 27, 2020 07:03 PM NBA postpones first Lakers game after Kobe Bryant’s death Beltway Confidential Hunter Biden continues to throw his father under the bus Hunter Biden shouldn’t be remotely relevant to the question of whether President Trump abused his power in Ukraine. But the former second son can’t help himself. How the US should respond to Britain’s Huawei 5G decision The chief justice doesn’t rule the Senate Boris Johnson sides with Huawei, locking the UK out of our fight against China Editorial If the Green New Deal can’t make it in Portland, it can’t make it anywhere Editor’s Picks Impeachment defense, Day Two: The Bolton brouhaha Claiming John Bolton is just another ’deep state’ James Comey is absurd Most Popular Business Goldman Sachs investing in identity politics Madeline Fry Friday January 24, 2020 Goldman Sachs, whose chairman and CEO is an old, white man, is taking a stance against old, white men. Union membership falls to lowest share on record Sean Higgins Wednesday January 22, 2020 Union membership fell to 10.3% of the nation’s workforce in 2019, down two-tenths of a percentage point from the previous year, marking the lowest level since the Labor Department began keeping track in 1983. Kevin McCarthy: Work on ’tax cuts 2.0’ underway Jay Heflin Monday January 27, 2020 House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said that efforts are underway to produce another round of tax cuts following President Trump’s comments in Davos that Congress should take up another tax cut package. Policy Defense & National Security Top Saudi official says US acted in ’legitimate self-defense’ by killing Soleimani By Zachary Halaschak Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister said that the United States acted in self-defense when it killed Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani with a drone strike. January 28, 2020 11:15 AM WATCH LIVE: President Trump unveils Middle East peace plan alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu January 28, 2020 09:27 AM ’Critical to our operations’: French defense minister asks Esper to maintain US presence in Africa January 28, 2020 07:10 AM Esper warns of tough decisions in Pentagon budget due out next month January 27, 2020 09:39 PM John Bolton worried Trump was granting favors to autocratic leaders: Book Policy Healthcare CDC warns against travel to China because of coronavirus outbreak By Cassidy Morrison The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning against nonessential travel” to all of China as the coronavirus continues to spread. January 27, 2020 02:28 PM Sending out coronavirus vaccines won’t make sense unless the spread gets worse January 27, 2020 11:53 AM At least 110 under investigation in US for coronavirus January 27, 2020 12:00 AM Rep. Vicky Hartzler: Government waste is hobbling the fight against the opioid crisis January 25, 2020 08:04 PM It takes a village to save a child Policy Energy Former EPA officials say farmers won’t get the aid they’re claiming from Trump water rule rewrite By Abby Smith Environmentalists and former EPA officials are questioning whether farmers, touted by the Trump administration as one of the biggest beneficiaries of its rewrite of Obama clean water protections, would benefit from the new rule at all. Daily on Energy, presented by API: Sanders campaign recruits scientists to defend climate plan as Biden attacks Josh Siegel Monday January 27, 2020 Subscribe today to the Washington Examiner magazine and get Washington Briefing: politics and policy stories that will keep you up to date with what’s going on in Washington. SUBSCRIBE NOW: Just $1.00 an issue! ’I stand with Greta’: Mnuchin’s wife Louise Linton defends Greta Thunberg against her husband Mike Brest Saturday January 25, 2020 Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s wife defended teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg after she and Mnuchin had a spat in a now-deleted Instagram post. Policy Finance House Democrats to vote to override state ’right-to-work’ laws, boosting labor movement By Sean Higgins The Democrat-led House is set next week to vote on legislation to override the 27 states that have given workers a right to work without being forced to join a union or to give it a cut of their paycheck. 2020 Democrats would destroy savings and investment with their tax hikes Bruce Thompson Monday January 27, 2020 The leading Democratic presidential candidates would do serious damage to savings and investment in the United States if elected. They have proposed a long list of tax changes that would destroy savings and investment, and with them, the economy. Trump administration targets online sellers in plan to take down...